Digitizing Implementation Monitoring and Public Procurement Project

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The development objective of the Digitizing Implementation Monitoring and Public Procurement Project for Bangladesh is to improve public procurement performance and enhance capacity for implementation monitoring of development programs/projects. The project has four components that are summarized below. 1) The first component, Restructuring CPTU and Institutionalizing e-GP aims to restructure the CPTU in order to enhance its regulatory power and institutionalize e-GP to function as a service provider with professional resources. Two major sub-components are envisaged. It has two sub-component, (i) restructuring CPTU and furthering policy reform and (ii) institutionalizing e-GP. 2) The second component, Enhancing Digitization of Public Procurement aims to enhance the scope of e-GP for all public sector organizations across the country covering system as well as technical requirements including updating of e-GP modules with robust contract management process, fully operationalizing two data centers, and business modeling. Two major sub-components are as follows: (i) expansion of e-GP system and (ii) implementation of contract management; 3) The third component, Professionalizing Procurement and Citizen Engagement aims to improve procurement management capacity of the SPSOs, both in terms of public procurement practices and the use of e-GP. Also, the bidding community will be included as part of the capacity enhancement program. The sub-component will encourage creation of knowledge base, analytical tasks, and research and development. Concurrently, it will attempt to create a citizen monitoring mechanism of local level contracts with specific reference to rural roads, education, and health service deliveries. Five subcomponents are as follows: (i) improving procurement management of SPSOs, IMED and CPTU; (ii) capacity building and professionalization of procurement; (iii) disclosure of public procurement information in open data format; (iv) citizen engagement; and (v) strategic communication; The four component, Digitizing Project Implementation Monitoring aims to strengthen implementation monitoring of development programs/projects at national level using digital technology. Two sub-components are as follows. (i): enhancing project management information system and (ii) reinforcing monitoring skills and data analytics.