The National Health Insurance Administration (NHIA) of the Ministry of Health and Welfare (MOHW) organized the ‘Oath-Taking of Organization and Business Integrity and Symposium on Procurement Matters’. The purposes were to practice the core value of integrity in government agencies, establish the culture of quality purchasing, cultivate the correct perception of honesty and lawfulness in businesses, and consolidate the consensus of improving procurement quality via mutual communication and exchange of opinion. This event was intended to protect businesses that legally win the contracts from the interference of improper pressure on their implementation and sought to combine the strength of the public and private sectors to establish an honest partnership, strengthening the external risk supervision mechanism, to form an honest, transparent and impartial procurement environment. 


The symposium was held at 10:00 a.m. on September 2, 2014, chaired by NHIA’s Deputy Director-General Tsai Lu. In addition to owners and representatives of businesses that signed procurement contracts with the NHIA, and NHIA’s various office heads and staff members that deal with procurement cases, the organizer also invited distinguished guests including Chief Prosecutor of the Taipei District Prosecutors Office, Hu Yuan-long; Prosecutor Chen Shu-yi; Director of MOHW’s Department of Civil Service Ethics, Yu Jian-guo; and General Manager of TECO Smart Technologies Co., Chen Chun-xu. The event aimed to familiarize businesses with the concept of integrity, through a ceremony dedicated to fighting corruption, to jointly declare their commitment to building a high-quality procurement environment. 

During the symposium Prosecutor Chen Shu-yi gave a lecture entitled ‘Government Procurement Law: A Case Study’, explaining to attending business owners and representatives the potential risks of violating regulations during their fulfillment of procurement contract, and reminding them of their potential liability for offences, to prevent these offences from happening. 

The symposium attracted 110 participants. It also opened sessions for business owners to post questions about various administrative procedures and regulation issues in the procurement process. With the opportunities for a thorough exchange of views, listening to the participants’ opinions and suggestions, and discussion of issues, the event came to a satisfying end.