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November 23, 2010
The national level awareness campaign on the Public Procurement Rules (PPR) 2008 under the Public Procurement Reform Project-II was launched at 10:00am at the Celebrity Hall of the Bangabandhu International Conference Center at Sher-e-Bangla Nagar in Dhaka on November 23, 2010.
Minister for Planning Air -Vice Marshal (Rtd) AK Khandker inaugurated the campaign as the chief guest. Minister for Food and Disaster Management Dr Muhammad Abdur Razzaque, Minister for Communications Syed Abul Hossain and Acting Country Director of World Bank Dhaka Office Zahid Hussain were present as the special guests in the inaugural session with Secretary of the IME Division, Ministry of Planning Md Habib Ullah Majumder in the chair. Director General of CPTU and Project Director of PPRP-II Amulya Kumar Debnath, and Director of Bangladesh Center for Communication Programs (BCCP) were also present on the occasion.
Organized by the Central Procurement Technical Unit (CPTU) of IME Division and facilitated by BCCP the inauguration of the awareness campaign on PPR draw a large number of participants from the government procuring entities, bidding and business community, development partners, media and the civil society.
Through this campaign the procuring entities, bidding community, media and civil society will get the right message about PPR and through awareness and capacity building the stakeholders will be able to comply with the provisions of the PPR. Compliance with the PPR 2008 in procuring goods, works and services is mandatory under the Public Procurement Act (PPA) 2006.
The CPTU is implementing the PPRP-II supported by the World Bank to enhance transparency, accountability, fair competition and skills in public procurement. Work is now progressing fast to build capacity of the stakeholders in the process of public procurement, improve procurement management, introduce electronic government procurement (e-GP) and generate greater awareness about the usefulness of public procurement among all concerned.
Four government entities such as LGED, RHD, REB and WDB are considered target agencies under the PPRP-II. By the end of January, e-tendering will be introduced in 17 offices of the four target agencies including CPTU. |
