LKPP is set to encourage the use of e-procurement for the procurement of all government goods and services which are worth around Rp500 trillion a year, LKPP chief Agus Raharjo said.
"E-procurement system could save a significant amount of state fund," Agus said in a statement here on Monday.
He said in the first 11 months of the year, e-procurement contracts for the procurement of government goods and services were valued at Rp99 trillion.
Around Rp12.4 trillion or 11 percent were saved in the procurement, he said.
"With efficiency 11 percent at least Rp55 trillion would be saved through the use of e-procurement system every year," he added.
He said LKPP will continue to promote the use of e-procurement all over the country.
The unit of e-procurement system was used for the first time in 2007 and the number of units has increased rapidly over the years reaching 520 units by November, 2012, he said.
A fast increase was recorded in all regency in the country, and transactions also shot up to Rp135 trillion in value in November from Rp54 trillion in the previous months, he added.
"There are however, things that need serious addressing. In addition to the fact that the business sector shows less interest in using e-procurement, there are attempt of tampering with the system," he said.
LKPP has seen in many cases that attempts have been made to tamper with e-procurement such as bandwidth being narrowed or many offers coming from a single address, he said.
Based on LKPP data, there are only 187,000 of around 3 million companies in the country using the system in the procurement of goods and services.
More companies are expected to use e-procurement and take part in auctions using the system, he said.
He noted many companies took part in the process toward auction with e-procurement but finally only two or three of them submitted their bidding.
"LKPP will continue to seek innovation in order to popularize the use of e-procurement and to prevent attempts to tamper with it," he said.