Economic Reporter :
The Central Procurement Technical Unit (CPTU) plans to expand its structure to cover all the regulatory functions of public procurement in the country.
“As per the current structure, the CPTU is a wing of Implementation and Monitoring and Evaluation Division (IMED). Considering huge upcoming activities of the CPTU, a plan to restructure it has been found justified,” said CPTU Director General Md Faruque Hossain.
Talking to The new nation recently at his office, Faruque said public procurement regulatory authority exists in many countries of the world. An authority can deal with legal issues properly.
“The whole process is still at the initial stage while consultant has been appointed and they will submit a report to this end,” he said.
The top CPTU official said to make public procurement sustainable, there is a need to ensure procurement life cycle cost and frame a disposal policy to dispose the government properties when required.
He mentioned that within the purview of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the country is supposed to establish sustainable public procurement where economic, social and environmental issues are considered.
Answering to a question, the CPTU Director General said that until 2 November 2016, 59 Ministries and Divisions have so far been connected to the e-GP. Up to November 2, 2016, a total of 583 out of 1233 procuring agencies came under e-tendering process.
“By this December, all the procuring agencies are likely to be connected to the e-GP system, but in true sense it might take some more time to fully implement e-GP because training is important and we have arrangement for e-GP capacity building,” he added.
He informed that development partners like the ADB, the Netherlands, JICA, China, UNICEF and World Bank have been able to observe the procurement process of their funded projects through the e-GP.
The CPTU Director General said that the organization has a plan to impart training to some 4,500 procurement officers by next June alongside imparting training to some 4,000 tenderers.
He said that an agreement has already been signed to expand e-GP server as the new server would be installed at the Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC) by this November with its mirror at CPTU.
According to official data, both the value and volume of tenders invited through e-GP system in Bangladesh doubled in the last fiscal year.
The data shows that the number of tenders invited in e-GP up to June 2015 was 26102. It jumped to 57936 on June 30, 2016. The value of tenders invited in the previous fiscal year was Tk 20352 crore while it rose to Tk 48366 crore at the end of the last fiscal year.
The Central Procurement Technical Unit (CPTU) plans to expand its structure to cover all the regulatory functions of public procurement in the country.
“As per the current structure, the CPTU is a wing of Implementation and Monitoring and Evaluation Division (IMED). Considering huge upcoming activities of the CPTU, a plan to restructure it has been found justified,” said CPTU Director General Md Faruque Hossain.
Talking to The new nation recently at his office, Faruque said public procurement regulatory authority exists in many countries of the world. An authority can deal with legal issues properly.
“The whole process is still at the initial stage while consultant has been appointed and they will submit a report to this end,” he said.
The top CPTU official said to make public procurement sustainable, there is a need to ensure procurement life cycle cost and frame a disposal policy to dispose the government properties when required.
He mentioned that within the purview of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the country is supposed to establish sustainable public procurement where economic, social and environmental issues are considered.
Answering to a question, the CPTU Director General said that until 2 November 2016, 59 Ministries and Divisions have so far been connected to the e-GP. Up to November 2, 2016, a total of 583 out of 1233 procuring agencies came under e-tendering process.
“By this December, all the procuring agencies are likely to be connected to the e-GP system, but in true sense it might take some more time to fully implement e-GP because training is important and we have arrangement for e-GP capacity building,” he added.
He informed that development partners like the ADB, the Netherlands, JICA, China, UNICEF and World Bank have been able to observe the procurement process of their funded projects through the e-GP.
The CPTU Director General said that the organization has a plan to impart training to some 4,500 procurement officers by next June alongside imparting training to some 4,000 tenderers.
He said that an agreement has already been signed to expand e-GP server as the new server would be installed at the Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC) by this November with its mirror at CPTU.
According to official data, both the value and volume of tenders invited through e-GP system in Bangladesh doubled in the last fiscal year.
The data shows that the number of tenders invited in e-GP up to June 2015 was 26102. It jumped to 57936 on June 30, 2016. The value of tenders invited in the previous fiscal year was Tk 20352 crore while it rose to Tk 48366 crore at the end of the last fiscal year.
