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Bangladesh: Electronic Public Procurement and Online Monitoring on the Go |
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unbconnect.com |
| Source Date: |
Sunday, July 31, 2011 |
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ICT for MDGs
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Bangladesh |
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Aug 02, 2011 |
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Four key government agencies have taken steps to fully implement the pilot project for Electronic Government Procurement (E-GP) within July 2011.
The Roads and Highways Department, Local Government Engineering Department, Rural Electrification Board, and Bangladesh Water Development Board have taken the steps following the national inauguration of a web portal for electronic tendering and online performance monitoring of key sectoral agencies.
As a major step forward in implementing the follow-up Public Procurement Reform Project II (PPRP II), the E-GP web portal was inaugurated by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in June 2011, and is now being piloted in four sectoral agencies. Concurrently, the government also started piloting the online procurement performance monitoring system for these agencies.
PPRP II is also helping to improve procurement management through an extensive capacity development program using collaborative approach between international and local institutes, and has already trained about 1,500 staff from different government procurement entities.
In addition, as part of the demand for good governance, it has made functional a public-private stakeholders committee (PPSC) with the services of a leading think-tank organization, and has been forming a government-contractors forum to demystify procurement at the grassroots level.
A World Bank team recently reviewed the status of PPRP II and noted that the project is progressing well in improving transparency and competitiveness. The World Bank provided $24 million interest free credit for the project which will end in March 2013.
Already more than 61 percent of the committed amount has been disbursed. The Central Procurement Technical Unit (CPTU) of the Implementation Monitoring and Evaluation Division (IMED) is implementing the project in coordination with the four key agencies.
The World Bank team highlighted the need for strengthening CPTU with adequate staffing and enhancing procurement monitoring at the four target agencies.
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