Both the value and volume of tenders invited through the electronic government procurement (e-GP)
system in Bangladesh doubled in the fiscal year ending on June 30, 2016.
Data released by the government show that the number of e-GP tenders invited in the fiscal year up to June 2015 was 26102, which jumped to 57936 in the last fiscal that ended on June 30, 2016. The value of tenders invited in 2014-15 fiscal year was TK20352 crore, which rose to
TK48366 crore at the end of the immediate-past fiscal year of 2015-16.
The number of tenderers registered with the e-GP system also marked a sharp rise during the period, rising to 22183 from 15559 in the 2014-15 fiscal year. The government has decided to connect all 1233 procuring agencies having a total of about 25000 procuring entities to the e-GP by December 2016. The Central Procurement Technical Unit (CPTU) is going to install a wider capacity data centre to accommodate all the entities in e-GP to fully digitize public procurement in the country.