Int’l tenders thru e-GP soon: CPTU

The government has prepared necessary documents to soon float international tenders through a National e-Government Procurement (e-GP) portal, which since 2012 has helped saved $600 million.

This was stated by Md Ali Noor, director general (additional secretary) of Central Procurement Technical Unit (CPTU) of the planning ministry’s Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation Division which runs the online procurement platform.

Noor was addressing as chief guest a meeting organised by the CPTU at the Roads and Highways Department yesterday when a 15-member convening committee of Bangladesh Government-Tenderers’ Forum (BGTF) was formed, says a press release.

The press release says the BGTF would act as a central body of the 64 government-tenderers’ forums, developing professional relations between tenderers and procuring entities and facilitating discussions to expedite public procurement of the right quality.