In fiscal 2019-20, $17.5 billion worth of procurement contracts representing about 62 per cent of public procurement expenditure in the country were processed through the e-GP system. “With our great efforts, we took electronic government procurement to a certain level of the cycle of the procurement process. “The digitisation of public procurement was a game-changer for both the public and private sector,” said Ishtiak Siddique, the WB’s team leader for the project. The project has developed a web portal for citizens to easily track data on public procurement and provide feedback. It will also build provision to support the small and medium-sized and women-led enterprises and scaling-up citizen engagement in public procurement, the statement said.

Source: Dhaka Tribune February 07, 2021 20:26 UTC