What is the Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) system?

A system that selects multiple suppliers, inducing good-faith price and quality competition while enhancing the selection rights of demanding institutions, which is suitable for the e-commerce era following the development of information and communication technology and internet expansion, and is already widely used in the United States, Canada, and other countries

Definition

As the existing lowest-price single successful bidder selection method has been continuously pointed out for problems of lack of diversity and quality deterioration, this system selects multiple suppliers, inducing good-faith price and quality competition while enhancing the selection rights of demanding institutions, which is suitable for the e-commerce era following the development of information and communication technology and internet expansion, and is already widely used in the United States, Canada, and other countries.

A contract system with two or more contractors so that demanding institutions can select the same or similar types of goods in quality and efficiency to meet the diverse needs of each public institution, whereby contracts are concluded through negotiations with those who meet certain standards in terms of delivery performance and management status, and demanding customers can freely select and use goods directly from the KONEPS Comprehensive Shopping Mall (http://shopping.g2b.go.kr/)