The E-procurement training was held on July 08-10, 2020.
The World Bank organized a three-day interactive online workshop on the development of an e-procurement system as a makeshift arrangement in the backdrop of challenges due to COVID-19.
The scope of the e-procurement training activity was to ensure the provision of an e-procurement solution that will support the public procurement competitions under the WB-financed projects.
Through this approach, the procuring agencies will be able to define procurement demands via electronic means, advertise and perform online processes for goods, services or works procurements and managing the contracts in a centralized manner.
The e-procurement system will enable the market vendors to obtain easy access to competitions and achieving efficiency-gains through electronic support of pre-qualification and bidding process.
The e-procurement system would standardize the procurement process, ensuring the effective management of full procurement cycle, easy access to information, meeting the prevalent rules and audit requirements, and greater efficiency and productivity in the process flow.
MD, PMDFC rated this online workshop as a learning experience for the PCP team, as it enabled them to define the online procurement processes, using
best international practices for public procurement transparency and capacity building of suppliers for effectively using the e-procurement solution.