Speakers at a workshop on Government-Tenderers’ Forum (GTF) in Netrokona on Thursday emphasized on effective implementation ofpublicprocurement process including e-GPfor ensuring sustainable development.
The workshop was held at the conference room of the Deputy Commissioner’s office in the district.The Central Procurement Technical Unit (CPTU) of the Implementation Monitoring Evaluation Division (IMED) under the Ministry of Planning organisedthe workshop.
Pradip Ranjan Chakraborty, Secretary, IMED, Ministry of Planning spoke at the workshop as the chief guest.Mohammed Shoheler Rahman Chowdhury, Director General (Additional Secretary), CPTU, IMED,Ministry of Planning, spoke as special guest.
KaziMd. Abdur Rahman, Deputy Commissioner and District Magistrate,Netrokonapresided over the workshop.Khadija Bilkis, Senior Deputy Director, Bangladesh Center for Communication Programs (BCCP) and Mohammad Salah Uddin, Deputy Director and Senior Assistant Secretary, CPTU, spoke at the workshop.
Pradip Ranjan Chakraborty said, the government is sincerely working to take development programmes ahead and for this the meetings of the Executive Committee of National Economic Council (Ecnec) are held regularly even during the Covid-19 period, he added.
Mohammed Shoheler Rahman Chowdhury said, e-GP functioned well without any disruption even for a single day during the lockdown period due to Covid-19. So far, 56 ministries have come under e-GP network and over 77,000 tenderers have been registered with the system. For this, it has received due appreciation from the World Bank, he added.
Highlighting the features of the system he said, under e-GP, all required procedures from e-Tendering to e-Contract and management are now conducted through this unique electronic platform, he added. Representatives from various procuring entities and a good number of tenderers participated at the workshop organised under DIMAPPP by CPTU and facilitated by BCCP.A power point presentation on GTF was made by BCCP.
The participants exchanged views, ideas and experiences relating to public procurement including e-GP and evaluated progress of activities of the Forum.
The CPTU has been implementing DIMAPPP with support from World Bank to improve public procurement performance and enhance capacity for implementation monitoring of development programs and projects through digitization.
