“Around 75 percent money of the annual development program is used for public procurement. People of the country are the source of all these money. The government is accountable to the people for ensuring standard of the procured goods and service and usage of the public money,” she said.
The prime minister said this while inaugurating the electronic government procurement (e-GP) at Bangabandhu International Conference Center (BICC).
Planning Minister AK Khandker, State Minister for Science and ICT Yeafesh Osman and World Bank Country Director Ellen Goldstein spoke at the function.
The e-GP system provides an on-line platform to carry out procurement activities by the public agencies - Procuring Agencies (PAs) and Procuring Entities (PEs).
The e-GP system is a single web portal from where and through which PAs and PEs will be able to perform their procurement related activities using a dedicated secured web based dashboard. The e-GP system is hosted in e-GP Data Center at CPTU, and the e-GP web portal is accessible by the PAs and PEs through internet for their use.
The e-Government Procurement solution introduced under Public Procurement Reform (PPR) Process is being supported by World Bank and being used by all government organisations which will help in ensuring equal access to the Bidders/Tenderers, efficiency, transparency and accountability in the public procurement process in the country.
Initially, the e-tendering is going to be introduced in four procuring target agencies under the Public Procurement Reform Project -2. These target agencies are: Local Government Engineering Department, Roads and Highways, Bangladesh Water Development Board and Rural Electrification Board.
It would be expanded to 16 procurement entities (PEs) of the four agencies and Central Procurement Technical Unit (CPTU). Later a total of 308 PEs of the four agencies will come under the system.
The prime minister said the activities of the government have been made transparent and accountability has been established through the usage of the ICT. “We have enacted a law to ensure the rights to the information of the people,” she said.
Hasina said when the information is open the scope for corruption gets reduced and it becomes easier to eradicate corruption, which is one of the prime targets of the government.
She also mentioned that the practices of tender-grabbing and tender-manipulation would be stopped forever by this new system.
The premier mentioned the government is working tirelessly for the overall development of the country as the people voted them to power.
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Quelle/Source: The Daily Star, 02.06.2011
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