Better tenderers-procuring entities ties stressed

FE Team | Published: September 01, 2015 00:00:00 | Updated: November 30, 2026 06:01:00

Better relationship and professional understanding between tenderers and government procuring entities is vital for implementing various projects under Annual Development Programme (ADP), says a press release.
Such relationship is so expected to ensure quality of goods, works and services purchased with public funds.
Improvement in bilateral relationship requires greater communications and face-to-face dialogue between tenderers and government procuring entities at a regular interval.
Speakers at a meeting of Government-Tenderers Forum or Kroi Sanglap Forum arranged by Central Procurement Technical Unit of Implementation Monitoring and Evaluation Division under the Ministry of Planning made such observations at the LGED Auditorium in Sirajganj on Saturday.
Secretary of IME Division Md Shahid Ullah Khandaker, Director General of CPTU Faruque Hossain, Lead Procurement Specialist of World Bank Bangladesh Dr Zafrul Islam, Deputy Commissioner of Sirajganj Md Billal Hossain, CEO of Bangladesh Centre for Communication Programs (BCCP) Mohammad Shahjahan and Procurement Consultant of WB ANM Mustafizur Rahman spoke at the programme facilitated by BCCP.
The programme was organised under the auspices of the Public Procurement Reform Project-II supported by WB.
Representatives of four target agencies under the project-Local Government Engineering Department (LGED), Roads and Highways Department (RHD), Bangladesh Rural Electrification Board (BREB) and    Bangladesh Water Development Board (BWDB)- and other government procuring entities in Sirajganj district numbering 30 were present on the occasion. About 30 tenderers attended the meeting. They interacted with each other about public procurement issues.
Both the tenderers and members of procuring entities raised various issues relating to process, law and rules of public procurement and also electronic government procurement (e-GP). DG, CPTU explained and gave answers to their queries.
The Secretary in his speech said the Kroi Sanglap Forum exclusively belongs to tenderers and procuring entities which aims to establish a well-functioning public procurement system in Bangladesh through such dialogues for ensuring quality of projects and welfare of the greater masses. Better coordination leads to faster and quality implementation of government development projects which will increase employment and alleviate poverty.
He said this is a bilateral platform where both the groups can discuss issues of public procurement and remove their confusions and contradictions.
Such Kroi Sanglap Forum will be formed in all 64 districts of Bangladesh. After the discussion, a 15-member ad hoc convening committee of the forum was constituted in Sirajganj comprising representatives of tenderers and procuring entities of the district.