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Improving Procurement Management Capacity |
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The CPAR identified inadequate procurement expertise, project directors who had received
little effective training and inadequate delegation of powers, all of which considerably
slowed down project implementation. |
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Key Objectives to Improve Procurement Management Capacity |
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To substantially enhance the capacity for procurement management through a structured
education and training program addressed to the needs of the senior managers, working
level staff, auditors and business community in order to build a profession of procurement
specialists. |
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Under the procurement management capacity building focus will be given primarily on
two areas: |
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institutionalizing comprehensive and regular training programs through selected public
and private training institutions |
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establishing monitoring and evaluation capacity to track procurement performances
of the public sector entities. |
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Overall Programme For Improving Procurement Management Capacity |
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Provide Procurement Training
(Responsibility : ILO – ITC) |
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Assess the procurement needs |
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Develop course curriculum |
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Select the trainees |
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Identifying the national, international training institutions to provide training |
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Select resources |
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Deliver training courses including seminar / workshops |
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Develop Public Procurement Database |
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Carry out survey of public procurement entities including staffing and their qualification |
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Develop a procedure for obtaining relevant public procurement data for goods, works
and consultants services from concerned entities |
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Establish a database for public procurement entities |
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Project Management Training (Responsibility :IMED in collaboration with Academy for
Planning and Development (APD) or institution) |
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Provide training separately on Project Management to about 600 participants of the
government in order to develop management skills. |
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Develop Management Information System (MIS) |
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Review the existing monitoring system |
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Develop a MIS on the basis of present system to monitor project and procurement implementation. |
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Development of website and electronic bid processing system |
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Introduction of MIS for procurement performance tracking |
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Develop a list of approved National Contractors |
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Carry out a survey of national contractors including their available capacities |
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Develop a list of qualified national contractors that will be published in the website |
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Formation of a special pool of procurement specialist.
Responsibility : ITC – ILO |
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Develop criteria for selection of training of trainers, procurement professionals,
govt. officials and public and private sector auditors and other relevant persons. |
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Test the viability of introduction of curriculum in the education curriculum including
university |
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Study Tour for the concerned officials of the Government dealing with the policy and
implementation of procurement
Responsibility : ITC–ILO |
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Procurement and Compliance Monitoring |
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Project will include a provision of technical assistance to establish and operational
a fully computerized and real-time procurement database and management information
system (MIS) at the CPTU |
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Training Programme (Organized by ITC-ILO) |
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The project includes extensive training provisions for developing in-country procurement
management capacity. Approximately 1600 staff of the government and private sector
will participate in the in-country procurement training in order to carry out efficiently
the reformed procurement procedures and strategies in the public sectors.
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Training Strategy |
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Training of Trainers (TOT) |
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About 40 national professionals will be developed as procurement trainers who will
be the prospective member of the National Training Force. These members will be commissioned
by the CPTU to provide need based public procurement training to the public sectors’
stakeholders during the project period as well as after the end of the project. |
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Participants of TOT |
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Professionals of Government / Private sectors who are experienced in / assigned for
procurement management. Please, refer to the selection criteria above for more information.
The participants must have the ‘no objection clearance’ from the concerned authority
for the required engagement in the TOT program as well as for conducting the National
Training. |
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Major Contents of TOT |
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To develop a National Trainers Team with sound knowledge on |
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Fundamental principles & institutional framework underlying procurement systems |
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Project Cycle & Related Documents |
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Procurement Policy & Guidelines |
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Procurement process & planning |
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Training need analysis |
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Curriculum and module design |
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Training technique |
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Program of TOT |
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The TOT program is grouped into three main courses i.e. |
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TOT – 1 : Training on Procurement Management Procedure (Dhaka) |
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TOT – 2 : Training on Curriculum Design (Dhaka) |
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TOT – 3 : Training Techniques and intensive refresher
training (Turin, Italy) |
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Certification of the National Trainers |
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The participants of TOT – 1 and TOT – 2 will be provided with the attendance certificate
on basis of satisfactory participation in the programs. |
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The participants will then be evaluated to attend the TOT – 3 that will be held in
ITC-ILO headquarter in Italy. |
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The participants at this stage will develop the training curriculum for the national
training on (a) Procurement issues, (b) Auditors’ training, (c) Arbitrators’ training,
(d) Private Stakeholders’ training courses. |
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The trainers will then conduct at least two national training workshops, each of three
weeks duration, after completion of which the trainers will be awarded a Diploma Certificate. |
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National Procurement Training |
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The National Training Team will go on to train national procurement practitioners
in the public sectors on the reformed procurement management procedure on the basis
of national need. CPTU will commission the members of the National Training Team.
The courses for this are due to be developed later this year. |
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