DHAKA, March 21, 2019 (BSS) – For the first time in the history of public
procurement in Bangladesh, the Central Procurement Technical Unit (CPTU)
provided four-day training on electronic government procurement (e-GP) to an
Ethiopian delegation at CPTU in Dhaka.
A nine-member Ethiopian e-GP team received the training from March 18 to
March 21, 2019 from experts at CPTU of Implementation, Monitoring and
Evaluation Division (IMED) under the Ministry of Planning, said a press
release.
Earlier, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Nepal, Afghanistan and Zambia visited the e-GP
system of Bangladesh at CPTU. But, the orientation for those countries was
not as extensive as for Ethiopia that has started e-GP implementation.
On March 18, 2021 the Ethiopian team met Secretary in Charge of IMED Abul
Mansur Md Faizullah at his office. The same day Director General of CPTU Md.
Ali Noor chaired a meeting with the delegation at CPTU.
The Ethiopian delegation was led by Marta Luwigi, Director General of the
Public Procurement and Property Disposal Service. Other members of the
delegation were from Ministry of Finance, National Bank of Ethiopia, Ministry
of Innovation and Technology, Ethiopian Road Authority, Public Procurement
and Property Administration Agency and the World Bank Ethiopia Office.
During the period, Senior System Analyst Md Mosharraf Hussain, Senior e-GP
Adviser Ashfakul Islam of CPTU, Deputy Team Leader of e-GP Operation and
Maintenance Nazmul Islam Bhuiyan and Trainer Hasan Mahmud of Dohatec
conducted various sessions on e-GP for the Ethiopian team. On March 21, 2019
the DG of CPTU concluded the training.
The CPTU has been implementing e-GP with support from the World Bank since
2011 as part of the government’s vision for digitizing all public services to
improve the public service delivery.