Korean Women Entrepreneurs Association Holds '2026 Customized Government Procurement Briefing for Women-Owned Businesses'

Supporting Women-Owned Businesses in Entering the Public Procurement Market and Expanding Sales Channels

The Korean Women Entrepreneurs Association announced on the 16th that it held the '2026 Women-Owned Business Government Procurement Briefing and Consultation Session' to support women-owned businesses in entering the public procurement market and expanding their sales channels.

The Korea Women Entrepreneurs Association held a tailored Korea ON-line E-Procurement System (KONEPS) briefing and consultation session for women-owned businesses on the 15th at the YeoGyeongHyup Grand Conference Hall in Gangnam-gu, Seoul. YeoGyeongHyup

This event, hosted by the Ministry of SMEs and Startups and organized by the Korean Women Entrepreneurs Association, was held on the 15th at the association's conference hall in Gangnam-gu, Seoul, to mark the 5th annual Women-Owned Business Week. Approximately 180 women entrepreneurs who hope to win public procurement contracts participated in the event.

During the briefing, academic experts in public procurement and officials from the Government Procurement Export Promotion Association served as speakers, providing essential practical training on topics such as: ▲ the basics of the public procurement market and the government procurement system ▲ strategies for entering overseas procurement markets ▲ and G-PASS (a system for designating promising companies for overseas procurement markets).

At the consultation session, procurement-specialized organizations such as the Government Procurement Technology Promotion Association, the Government Procurement MAS Association, and the Government Procurement Export Promotion Association offered one-on-one customized consulting.

At the consulting booths, individual consultations were provided on concrete market entry strategies such as: ▲ Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) contracts ▲ designation as Excellent Procurement Product or Innovative Product ▲ and entry into Venture Nara and Service Eum Market.

Park Chang-sook, President of the Korean Women Entrepreneurs Association, remarked, "Public procurement is a crucial market for expanding sales channels for women-owned businesses, so more than anything, it is important to firmly understand the complex procurement system and lay a solid foundation before entering it." She added, "We will spare no effort at the association level to support women-owned businesses in strategic utilization of the system to achieve tangible contract results and to pave the way for entry into overseas procurement markets as well."

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