‘Strengthening procurement governance in Bangladesh: A review of the Local Government Engineering Department's role in ensuring accountability and efficiency

Abstract

Bangladesh’s public procurement legal framework has sought to ensure transparency, accountability and fairness in government procurements. My report titled “Strengthening Procurement Governance in Bangladesh: A Review of the Local Government Engineering Department's Role in Ensuring Accountability and Efficiency" attempts to reveals the factual scenario of transparency, accountability and fairness in Local Government Engineering Department (LGED). This engineering department have been practicing electronic government procurement (e-GP) from the very launching of e-GP. Moreover, LGED has always been a front liner comparing contemporary government departments regarding best practice of public procurement. However, there are a lot of challenges implementing good procurement governance within the existing internal and external organizational environment. In this background, I have analysed the Bangladeshi procurement governance with a view to fathoming ‘accountability and efficiency’ in public procurements of LGED. I conclude by urging for simplified and elaborated rules, more circumscribed administrative discretion, and a robust but principled judicial review of procurement decisions. This has been a theoretical study, based on primary and secondary sources of knowledge.