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THURSDAY, JULY 24, 2025
WB gives $40m more to digitize govt purchases

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TBS Report
07 February, 2021, 01:10 pm
Last modified: 07 February, 2021, 06:16 pm

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WB gives $40m more to digitize govt purchases

TBS Report
07 February, 2021, 01:10 pm
Last modified: 07 February, 2021, 06:16 pm
WB gives $40m more to digitize govt purchases

The World Bank approved $40 million loan on Saturday to help Bangladesh increase the coverage of electronic government procurement (e-GP) with new features to respond to the Covid-19 challenges. 
 
The fund will help expand e-GP to all public procuring entities. To respond to the challenges of Covid-19 pandemic and any future emergencies, the financing will help add important features to the e-GP system, including international bidding, direct contracting, framework agreement, electronic contract management and payment, procurement data analytics and geo-tagging.
 
Mercy Tembon, World Bank country director for Bangladesh and Bhutan, said Bangladesh had made systematic changes to improve the public procurement environment, including digitizing the system. During the general holiday amid the pandemic, e-GP played a critical role in continuing development works throughout the country.
 
"This financing will help ensure 100% use of e-GP and upgrade the system to enable the country to continue ensuring timely and quality public works and public service delivery," she said.
 
The financing will help strengthen the emergency procurement procedures and develop a roadmap for sustainable procurement. It will also build provisions to support the small and medium-sized and women-led enterprises and to scale up citizen's engagement in public procurement. 
 
Since 2002, the World Bank has been supporting the government to improve public procurement. In 2012, with the World Bank's help, the government rolled out e-GP in four procuring entities. In FY20, $17.5 billion worth of procurement contracts representing about 62% of public procurement expenditure in the country were processed through the e-GP system. 

During the pandemic, e-GP enabled over 1,300 public organisations to process all procurement activities online following national competitive procurement methods. 

The project has developed a web portal for citizens to easily track data on public procurement and provide feedback. In 48 upazilas, citizen groups are already monitoring contract implementation, which will be scaled up under the new financing.
 
The additional financing will help enhance the capacity of the e-GP data center and improve cyber-security. It will ensure country-wide roll-out of the electronic contract management and payment module with the provision of uploading geo-tagged images. 
 
"The digitization of public procurement was a game-changer for both the public and private sectors. It helped to increase efficiency and transparency and made doing business easier," said Ishtiak Siddique, World Bank team leader for the project. 
 
To complete the ongoing and new activities, the project is extended by one and a half years until December 31, 2023. With this additional financing, the World Bank's support to the project now stands at $95 million.
 

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