The first-ever Annual Performance Agreement (APA) of Bangladesh Public Procurement Authority (BPPA) for 2024-2025 fiscal year was signed between the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of BPPA and the Secretary, Implementation Monitoring and Evaluation Division (IMED) and on Sunday.
The Cabinet Division introduced Annual Performance Agreement from the financial year of 2015-2016 with an aim of increasing efficiency, bringing dynamism, improving quality of services in government functions and increasing effectiveness of organizations under an innovative approach.
BPPA CEO Mohammed Shoheler Rahman Chowdhury and the IMED Secretary Abul Kashem Md Mohiuddin signed the APA on behalf of the BPPA and Ministry of Planning respectively at the conference room of IMED at the Ministry of Planning in Dhaka.
The government transformed the former Central Procurement Technical Unit (CPTU) into BPPA on 18 September 2023 with a view to enhancing professionalization and improving overall public procurement environment in the country.
Major tasks, among others, mentioned in the APA of BPPA for 2024-2025 fiscal year include conducting procurement post review of contracts executed or ongoing in 2024-2025 fiscal year of 12 government procuring agencies, completing registration of one lakh 16 thousand tenderers in e-GP system, taking cumulative number of trainees in three-week procurement training to 12,800, week-long 4,200 and day-long 9000, adding information of 15,000 registered tenderers to Tenderers Database, piloting of sustainable public procurement etc.
The CEO of BPPA has committed to achieve the results mentioned in the APA and the Secretary also committed to extend necessary support to make it happen.
