Tender process of government procurement in Bangladesh is regulated by Public Procurement Rules 2025 and Public Procurement Act 2006. Public Procurement Rules 2008 was recently replaced by Public Procurement Rules 2025.
All the government organisations of Bangladesh now follows a common system regulated by PPR 2025 and PPA 2006. All the public procuring entities follow the common rules and procedures which is know as PPR 2025 i.e. Public Procurement Rules 2025. Public Procurement Rules 2008 was replaced by Public Procurement Rules 2025 on 28 September, 2025. PPR 2008 was formulated under PPA 2006 i.e. Public Procurement Act 2006. PPA 2006 was passed in the parliament in 2006. Both the PPR 2008 and PPA 2006 were enacted from 31st January 2008 which replaced Public Procurement Regulations 2003 (PPR 2003).
Before enactment of PPR and PPA, each government organisation was following their own system for tender processing. So that was difficult for the contractors to follow. They had to learn the procedure of each office where they want to participate in tender process. PPR 2025 has created a level playing field for all the contractors, suppliers and consultants.
Basic features of PPR 2025 are following:
- Compulsory publication of Annual Procurement Plan (APP). on eGP portal.
- Compulsory use of eGP portal for tendering of the procurement packages which can be processed using e-GP portal.
- Non-Consulting Services are now recognized as a separate procurement category. So now all the procurements are divided into four categories: works, goods, professional services and non-consulting services.
- Tender validity period: Previsouly normal range was 60-120 days and now normally allowed tender Validity Period is 60-150 days. The Procuring Entities now bound to complete evaluation and issue Notification of Award within Tender Validity Period.
- Publication of standard tender documents.
- Standardization of tendering procedure. All the government organisations now follow the same procedure for tendering, evaluation, approval, contract signing etc.
- Standardization of contract terms and conditions through the standard tender documents.
- Introduction of unified complain handling system and formation of Review Panel.
- Introduction of few new committees e.g. Enlistment Committee, Tender Cancellatio Committee. The previous committees are also in effect, those are: Tender Opening Committee, Tender Evaluation Committee, Estimate Committee, Enlistment Committee, Technical Sub-Committee etc. These committees play vital role to ensure accountability in procurement process.
- Mandatory inclusion of external members in the Tender Evaluation Committee (TEC) will increase fairness of tender evaluation.
- Central debarment system. This has reduced frivolous activities by nuisance tenderers.
- Systematic layers of contract approval. Now it is clearly defined which authority will approve a purchase proposal.
- Introduction of yearly limits for direct purchase, RFQ, LTM etc.
- Introduction of Reverse Auction as a procurement method.
- Procurement post review.
- Pre-tender meeting. This reduces may ambiguities in tender document and thus favour smooth implementaion of contract.
- Compulsory advertisement of high value procurement notices on the Bangladesh Public Procurement Authority (BPPA) website. Now the intended tenderers can easily get notification of any procurement package.
~ Frequently used acronyms of PPR 2008.
~ Definitions of the terminologies of PPR 2008.
~ Tips for writing Technical Specifications of Goods.
View this presentation to learn the basic concepts and background of PPR.
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