A contract was signed on 18 April 2019 between CPTU and Dnet on the development, establsihment and maintenance of a citizen portal to disclose information on public procurement to citizens.

Director General of CPTU and Additional Secretary Mr. Md. Ali Noor and CEO of Dnet Mr. ABM Sirajul Hossain signed the contract at CPTU conference Room.

The Dnet will develop, install and maintain the citizen portal along with up-gradation and maintenance of CPTU Mobile App on public procurement and social media. It will also produce digital video contents and some success stories. The contract with Dnet will continue until June 30, 2022  

The purposes of the Citizen Portal are as follows:

To disclose information on public procurement to citizens; to hear citizens’ voice as public money is spent on public procurement; to create greater openness in the process of public procurement; to help establish good governance in public procurement; to establish open contracting data standard. In some categories CPTU will disclose the data in Jason format and also do analytics; policy-makers, researchers, students and others can take such data and analyze to understand procurement performance.

The Citizen portal on public procurement will remain linked to CPTU website. The portal will be updated with information from various sources like Government Tenderers’ Forum (GTF), citizen engagement, e-GP, Public-Private Stakeholders Committee (PPSC) on public procurement etc.