Egyptian team to visit Bangladesh to learn about public procurement

An Egyptian delegation will come today on a three-day visit to learn from Bangladesh about the south Asian country's journey towards digitalisation of the public procurement system, including its design, development, implementation and sustainability.

Since 2011, a total of 14 countries, including Gambia, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Nepal, Ethiopia and Nigeria, visited Bangladesh's Central Procurement Technical Unit (CPTU) for knowledge and experience sharing on public procurement reforms and electronic government procurement (e-GP) system.

In December 2022, another such team from the Mozambique had a three-day visit to CPTU.

Egypt is now taking steps to strengthen public procurement, most notably via the 2018 Public Procurement Law, which aims to achieve efficiency of public expenditure and enhance the principles of good governance, among several other objectives.