South Korea's Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) is moving to identify a second round of reform tasks aimed at fixing unreasonable rules and practices that remain in the defense procurement sector.
DAPA said it began the second round of its "normalizing abnormal practices in defense acquisition" drive on the 1st.
The initiative follows up on a defense acquisition normalization task force launched in April.
The second round focuses on five categories: structural corruption, circumvention of rules, undue gains, rules detached from reality and rules at odds with public sentiment.
The agency will pay particular attention to loophole-driven gains and fiscal leakage that arise when policies or rules are applied in ways that stray from their original intent, as well as abuse of monopoly positions, hoarding and speculation, and damage from market disruption and illegal activity.
DAPA is also accepting proposals from the public to reflect a wide range of views from the field. Defense contractors, research institutes and people working in the defense acquisition field, as well as any member of the public, can submit items they believe need to be improved.
"We will actively identify the problems that the public and companies actually feel, such as undue gains that exploit loopholes in the rules and factors that undermine fair competition," DAPA Commissioner Lee Yong-chul said.
