Procurement contract should aim at improving quality of lives
‘Procurement contract should aim at improving quality of lives’
Md. Ali Noor, Director General (Additional Secretary) of the Central Procurement Technical Unit (CPTU)
A convening committee for launching the full-fledged Bangladesh Government –Tenderers Forum (BGTF), to build a professional relationship between government procuring agencies and private sector tenderers, has been constituted.

The Central Procurement Technical Unit (CPTU) of IMED, Ministry of Planning, organized a meeting on October 27, 2019 (Sunday) to form the convening committee at the auditorium of the Roads and Highways Department at Tejgaon in Dhaka.
Md. Ali Noor, Director General (Additional Secretary) of the Central Procurement Technical Unit (CPTU) as the chief guest spoke at the meeting where a 15-member convening committee of the Bangladesh Government-Tenderers’ Forum (BGTF) was formed.
Abdus Sattar, Executive Engineer (Procurement) of the Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) has been elected convener while Kazi Mozaharul Haque, Managing Director of Mozahar Enterprise elected member secretary of the committee. Kazi Sayeda Momtaz, Senior System Analyst of the Roads and Highways Department (RHD), Engr. Khalid Hossain, Managing Director of Spectra Group have been elected co-conveners.
The BGTF was formed in order to expedite implementation of public procurement in right quality and develop professional relationship under the conditions of contracts between tenderers and procuring entities.
Shish Haider Chowdhury, Director (Training and Coordination), CPTU, IMED and Procurement specialist of the World Bank Kamruzzaman Ahmed were present as special guests.,
Mosta Gausul Haque, Principal Project Management Consultant, DIMAPPP, CPTU, spoke at the programme. Khadija Bilkis, Senior Deputy Director, BCCP made a presentation on various aspects of BGTF. Md. Shafiul Alam, Senior Communications Consultant, CPTU, IMED moderated the workshop.
Md. Ali Noor said, while any tenderer signs a deal with a procuring entity for any work, the tenderer becomes part of the government’s development programme. Both sides are equally important in the implementation of public procurement. The aim of any procurement contract should be to ensure the quality of the lives of people through proper implementation, he added. The government will soon float international tenders through e-GP and necessary documents for this have been prepared. Through e-GP, the government has so far saved funds worth US dollar 600 million from 2012 to 2019, he added.
The objectives of the BGTF is to create scopes for dialogue between the two parties to remove any confusion arising out in public procurement r through dialogues and discussions.
Bangladesh Centre for Communication Programs (BCCP) facilitated the meeting and formation of the convening committee of the forum. The committee will work for formally launching a full committee of the BGTF.
The BGTF will act as a central body of the 64 Government-Tenderers Forums (GTFs) to create scopes for officials of procuring entities and tenderers to discuss public procurement issues for proper execution of the contracts awarded to the tenderers.
The BGTF has been formed as part of the ongoing activities for institutionalizing (Government-Tenderers’ Forum-GTFs) at district levels under the Digitizing Implementation Monitoring and Public Procurement Project (DIMAPPP) being implemented by the CPTU with support from the WB.