Fair Trade Commission, 16education offices participating in preventing school-uniform bid rigging


The Fair Trade Commission held2026 at Government Sejong Complex on 7year 10month 16day, and discussed measures to prevent school-uniform bid rigging. The offices of education from across the country participated in the meeting for the first time.

This meeting was the 25 meeting of the council, held to improve the monitoring system for bid rigging in the public sector. The council is a forum where institutions related to public procurement gather together to review the monitoring network.

The council of related institutions has been held 2014times a 2year since

2006Agencies that provide bid information to the Bid-Rigging Signal Analysis System, introduced in a hidden year, attended. Plans to strengthen system linkage were also introduced this time.

The Fair Trade Commission briefed contracting authorities’ bid officials on the system and major adjudication cases related to bid rigging, as well as matters for contracting authorities to note. A case involving collusion in school uniforms was also discussed at the meeting.

The FTC said it disclosed plans to strengthen the linkage of bid information for bid-signal analysis and asked each agency for cooperation. The point was that the cooperation of officials at contracting sites is important for prevention.

Oh Haeng-rok, director of the FTC’s Cartel Investigation Bureau, said, "In order to prevent collusion, the interest and will of officials from each agency at bid sites are important." He added, "We will continue operating the council to make the bid-rigging monitoring network more finely meshed and enhance the fairness of the public procurement market."

The relevant agencies decided to continue cooperating, focusing on the linkage of bid information and on-site guidance. The schedule for the next meeting and specific implementation measures will be coordinated through discussions among the agencies.