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The Daily Star
Seventh training course on public procurement begins Date: 09-03-2009
Prothom Alo
Three- week course on public procurement begins Date: 09-03-2009
The Financial Express
Training on public procurement begins Date: 09-03-2009
The Daily Star
E-purchase to check rigged bids Date: 23-02-2009
The Daily Star
Training on public procurement begins Date: 23-02-2009
Prothom Alo
Three-week training on public procurement begins Date: 23-02-2009
The Financial Express
Three-week training on public procurement begins Date: 23-02-2009
The Daily Janakantha
Training on public procurement begins Date: 23-02-2009
Samakal
Training on simplifying govt purchase Date: 23-02-2009
The New Nation
e-GP to free public procurement from influence Date: 13-02-2009
The Banglabazar Patrika
Preparation to introduce e-GP Date: 12-02-2009
The Daily Star
Fifth training on public procurement begins Date: 10-02-2009
The Financial Express
Training on public procurement begins Date: 09-02-2009
New Age
Govt. plans to float tenders online Date:07-02-2009
Dainik Inqilab
e-GP under process to stop influencing govt. purchase Date: 01-02-2009
Samakal
Govt. purchase to go online Date: 27-01-2009
The Financial Express
e-Government procurement underway Date: 26-01-2009
The News Today
Training on public procurement begins Date: 09-01-2009
13 dailies(English and Bengali)
Compliance with PPA-2006 and PPR-2008 In January 2009
The Independent
Institutionalizing procurement capacity going on Date: 27-10-2008
The Financial Express
Training course on procurement opens Date: 27-10-2008
The News Today
Training on public procurement begins today Date: 26-10-2008
Prothom Alo Date: 26-10-2008
Three-week training course on public procurement
begins today
The Financial Express
Training on public procurement begins today Date: 26-10-2008
The Daily Star
Training on public procurement begins today Date: 26-10-2008
The Financial Express
World Bank Review Mission meet held Date: 26-08-2008
Nayadiganta
Training on act, rules of public procurement held Date: 18-08-2008
The News Today Date:16-08-2008
Well-functioning, transparent procurement
system stressed
The Daily Janakantha
Photo and caption on training on PP Date: 16-08-2008
The Independent
Well-functioning procurement system stressed Date: 16-08-2008
The Daily Star
Training on public procurement concludes with photo Date: 15-08-2008
The Financial Express
Advanced procurement training ends in city with photo Date: 15-08-2008
Manavjamin
Bids to go online to stop muscle flexing over tenders Date: 06-04-2009
Amader Somoy
Bidders to bid online at home Date: 07-04-2009
The Daily Star Date: 06-05-2009
Talk Show on Public Procurement on BTV
The News Today
BTV Program on Public Procurement Today Date: 06-05-2009
Bangladesh Television
Talk show on public procurement Date: 06-05-2009
Bangladesh Television
Talk Show on Public Procurement Date: 10-06-2009
The Daily Star
14th training on Public Procurement begins Date: 14-06-2009
The Financial Express
Learning pros and cons of public procurement Date: 23-06-2009
The Daily Banglabazar Patrika
Procurement Training off City going on Date: 15-07-2009
Daily Jugantar
Some provisions of PPR to be relaxed Date: 22-07-2009
BSS, The New Nation
PPR to be simlified to quicken ADP implementation Date: 23-07-2009
BSS, The News Today
Govt likely to simplify PPR for quick ADP Date: 23-07-2009
implementation
The Financial Express
Electronic procurement by all govt offices by 2011 Date: 28-07-2009
Janakantha
Muscle Flexing tender dropping to go, Date: 28-07-2009
Online system underway
Samakal
Online tendering may not be this year Date: 09-08-2009
The Daily Star
Govt eyes e-procurement Date: 09-08-2009
The Daily Star
Keep multiple spots, allow mailed bids Date: 10-09-2009
The Daily Star
The Financial Express
Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha
United news Of Bangladesh Date: 08-12-2009
Regional workshop on citizen
engagement in procurement
A three-day regional workshop on strengthening citizen engagement in procurement; reviewing experiences, identifying challenges and exploring opportunities, sponsored by the Affiliated Network on Social Accountability in South Asia (ANSA) and the World Bank, begins at Rajendrapur in Dhaka on December 8, 2009 (Tuesday).
The workshop will bring together about 50 participants from Bangladesh, India , Pakistan and Sri Lanka representing a wide cross section of stakeholders-policy makers, civil society practitioners, media networks, development partners and international resource persons from Africa, Latin America and East Asia, according to a press release of the ANSA.
The overarching objectives of this learning and sharing event include understanding the state of play in civic engagement in public procurement in the region and discussing the challenges of developing civic engagement in procurement, with a focus on mechanisms of engagement, institution building strategies and partnership with governments.
The Financial Express Date: 12-12-2009
The Daily Star Date: 13-12-2009
Citizen engagement in procurement
Effective networking among
S Asian CSOs stressed
Activists of civil society organizations (CSOs) and resource persons from seven countries representing four continents laid emphasis on developing effective networking among them to build capacity to engage in monitoring of public procurement processes and outcomes.
They observed that there are commonalities in the environment of South Asian countries for citizen engagement in public procurement. The demand for monitoring procurement issues by CSOs is also growing in the region.
Such an observation was made in a regional workshop on strengthening citizen engagement in procurement, reviewing experiences, identifying challenges and exploring opportunities, sponsored by the Affiliated Network on Social Accountability in South Asia (ANSA) and the World Bank.
The three-day workshop that began on December 08, 2009 at BRAC Centre for Management Development at Rajendrapur ended on December 10, 2009 (Thursday).
The workshop brought together nearly 40 participants from Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka representing a cross section of stakeholders-policy makers, civil society practitioners, media networks, development partners and international resource persons from Africa, Latin America and East Asia, according to a press release of the ANSA. ANSA, South Asia is housed at the Institute of Governance Studies (IGS) of BRAC University in Bangladesh.
The broad objectives of the workshop included understanding the state of play in civic engagement in public procurement in the region and discussing the challenges of developing civic engagement in procurement, with a focus on mechanisms of engagement, institution building strategies and partnership with governments.
Pro Vice Chancellor of BRAC University Dr. Golam Samdani Fakir spoke as the chief guest at the concluding session on Thursday, while Barrister Manzoor Hasan, Director, IGS, and Ms. Karen Sirker, Senior Social Development Specialist of the World Bank Institute, were present on the occasion.
CPTU Report Date: 15-12-2009
Consultative meeting on CBA held
A consultative meeting on the findings of the communication based assessment (CBA) on the existing communication environment at the government procuring entities and bidding community was held at the Hotel Lake Castle by the Bangladesh Center for Communication Programs (BCCP) on December 15, 2009.
Md Abdul Malek, Secretary of the Implementation Monitoring and Evaluation Division (IMED) was present at the meeting as the chief guest. Amulya Kumar Debnath, Director General, Central Procurement Technical Unit (CPTU) of IMED, Dr Zafrul Islam, Lead Procurement Specialist of the World Bank, Dhaka, Mohammad Shahjahan, Chief Executive Officer of BCCP, were also present on the occasion.
BCCP is carrying out the social awareness campaign and communication activities on public procurement under Public Procurement Reform Project-II as the Social Awareness Campaign and Communication (SACC) Consultant of the CPTU.
The Local Government Engineering Department (LGED), Roads and Highways Department (RHD), Bangladesh Water Development Board (BWDB) and Rural Electrification Board (REB) are considered four target agencies under the PPRP-II.
Officials from different government entities, members of the bidding community, representative of the Bangladesh Association of Construction Industry (BACI), CPTU officials and consultants and others from the target agencies attended the consultative meeting.
The consultative meeting was aimed at sharing, validating and finalizing the observations and findings gathered from the field level by the BCCP.
As part of the CBA, BCCP interviewed, under a structured questionnaire, a total of 67 respondents in Dhaka and four other divisions. The respondents include procuring officials, local government officials, project implementation officers, bidding community members, CPTU officials and consultants.
Accommodating the observations and suggestions of the participants at the consultative meeting, BCCP will submit the final report to CPTU. Another broad based opinion research on public procurement will be conducted by BCCP across the country on a sample basis which will include all relevant stakeholders of public procurement.
A comprehensive communication strategy will be formulated to address the issues of public procurement on the basis of the findings of the CBA and the OR.
The Daily Star
CPTU upgrades website Date: 10-02-2010
Planning Minister AK Khandker yesterday launched an upgraded website of Central Procurement Technical Unit (CPTU) at a ceremony at Sher-e-Bangla Nagar in Dhaka.
The website, www.cptu.gov.bd, has been active since 2003 in a limited scale. The improved site has been launched under the Public Procurement Reform Project-II, CPTU said in a statement yesterday.
Considering the importance of the website in the context of the Public Procurement Act-2006 and the Public Procurement Rules 2008 and their amendment in 2009, the CPTU official site has been enhanced in terms of its content, size and quality for public use.
The number of key performance indicators on the site has been raised to 45 for compliance with the changes made to PRA-2006 and PPR-2008.
Secretary of the Imple-mentation Monitoring and Evaluation Division Md Abdul Malek and CPTU Director General Amulya Kumar Debnath were present |
