1. All of the plaintiffs' claims are dismissed.

2. The costs of lawsuit are assessed against the plaintiffs.

Details of the disposition

A. The Plaintiffs are small and medium entrepreneurs under Article 2 of the Framework Act on Small and Medium Enterprises that operate manufacturing and wholesale and retail business of office wood households, etc. under the trade name of “D.”

Pursuant to Article 34(2) of the former Act on the Promotion of Purchase of Small and Medium Enterprise Products and the Support of Market Support (amended by Act No. 14839, Jul. 26, 2017; hereinafter “former Act on the Support of Market Support”), Article 27(1) of the former Enforcement Decree of the Act on the Promotion of Purchase of Small and Medium Enterprise Products and the Support of Market Support (amended by Presidential Decree No. 28213, Jul. 26, 2017; hereinafter “former Enforcement Decree on the Support of Market Support”), the Defendant is an institution entrusted by the Administrator of the Small and Medium Business Administration (the Minister of SMEs and Startups; hereinafter the same shall apply) with the duties

B. Of the households which are competing products open only to small and medium entrepreneurs, the Plaintiffs received from the Defendant the verification of direct production for each of the following sub-items, including “workers for work”, as well as the verification of direct production for the factory located in E at Namyang-si (term of validity).

The term of validity of the name of detailed product and the name of detailed product shall be limited to the product other than the metal system from January 18, 2016 to January 17, 2018, which is essential for the term of validity of the name of detailed product.

C. On January 2016, the Plaintiffs entered into a contract with multiple suppliers with the intent to supply drivers for work at public institutions (contract number F, additional contract G, hereinafter “instant contract”) and delivered them from February 2016.

(hereinafter the plaintiffs supplied to public institutions under the contract of this case (hereinafter referred to as "the plaintiffs of this case"). D.

The Administrator of the Public Procurement Service, around December 2017, shall conduct a fact-finding survey on the direct production of the kinds of households supplied under a contract with multiple suppliers, and around that time, he/she shall conduct a fact-finding survey on the holders of this case supplied by the plaintiffs from the following 2. [Attachment 1] of D, H (hereinafter “H”), 25 cases, I (hereinafter “I”), and 2 cases.