Data centre with bigger capacity for e-procurement on cards

The Central Procurement Technical Unit (CPTU) plans to set up a data centre with bigger capacity by September to introduce electronic government procurement (e-GP) across all public procurement entities.

The CPTU of the Implementation Monitoring and Evaluation Division (IMED) signed a contract with a joint venture of the Thakral Information Systems Private Ltd and the Shark Ltd for supply, installation and commissioning of a new data centre and mirror data centre.

The new data centre is expected to be established at the national data centre of Bangladesh Computer Council and the mirror data centre will be set up at the CPTU.

Secretary of IMED Farid Uddin Ahmed Chowdhury, Additional Secretary and Director General of IMED Shefaul Alam, Director General of CPTU Faruque Hossain, Lead Procurement Specialist of World Bank Zafrul Islam, CEO of Thakral Information Systems Private Ltd Basab Bagchi and Manager for Operations of Shark Ltd Riaj Uddin were also present.

The Singapore-based joint venture companies that won the contract through a competitive tender will provide post-installation services for five years.

Up to June 1, 2016, a total of 21,729 tenderers registered with the e-GP system and the number of procuring entities registered with it till the date is 2,443.

There are about 25,000 procuring entities under 1,233 agencies of the government. The approximate number of tenderers in the country is about 130,000.