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January 18, 2011
As part of an initiative to introduce electronic government procurement (e-GP), the government is going to sign memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the scheduled banks on electronic payment options required in the new system.
A meeting between the officials of the Central Procurement Technical Unit (CPTU) and the representatives of scheduled banks including the central bank in this regard was held at the conference room of the Implementation Monitoring and Evaluation Division, Ministry of Planning, in the city on January 18, 2011.
Secretary of the IME Division Md Habib Ullah Majumder presided over the meeting organized by the CPTU. Director General of CPTU Amulya Kumar Debnath, Executive Director of Bangladesh Bank Nazneen Sultana, CPTU Director Aziz Taher Khan and other officials were also present on the occasion.
Representatives from 12 scheduled banks attended the meeting. The CPTU made a presentation in the meeting on e-payment options in the e-GP system. The bank representatives discussed on their existing system, capacity and how they can be involved in the process of electronic payment for the e-GP system.
It was discussed in the meeting that all the banks do not have the same capacity and system for such operation. So it has to be sorted out between the banks and CPTU. Bangladesh Bank representative suggested that the banks individually would fix a reasonable service charge for tenderers following their bank guidelines for this which should not vary to a large extent.
The meeting decided that the banks would expedite their preparation for this and CPTU would hold further discussions with them to finalize the MoU and technical, and management issues as soon as possible.
The CPTU is implementing the Public Procurement Reform Project-II (PPRP-II) supported by the World Bank. Introducing e-GP initially in four target agencies such as LGED, REB, WDB and RHD is one of the four components of the PPRP-II. |
