Govt installs billboard on e-procurement

A digital billboard on electronic government procurement (e-GP) has been installed in the city yesterday as part of a countrywide social awareness campaign.

Planning Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal inaugurated the billboard near the National Press Club. It was installed by the Central Procurement Technical Unit (CPTU) of the Implementation Monitoring and Evaluation Division, according to a statement.

The billboard displays the total number of tenders invited and their estimated value under the e-GP system since its launch in 2011. The figures will be updated every month.

The government wants to digitise all its activities, the minister said after opening the billboard.

More than 50,000 tenders of about Tk 43,000 crore were invited through the e-GP system until March 31.

The CPTU is implementing e-GP under a plan to connect all procuring entities to e-GP by December 2016.

At present, 185 out of about 1,233 government procuring agencies are connected to the e-GP portal.

CPTU Director General Md Faruque Hossain was also present on the occasion.