e-GP Bangladesh 2026: Registration, Procurement Methods, Low Bids and Enlistment

e-GP Bangladesh in 2026: one portal, one rulebook

e-GP Bangladesh is no longer one channel among several for winning government work. Since the Public Procurement (Amendment) Act 2026 rewrote section 65 of the Public Procurement Act 2006, every public procurement that the portal can process must be run electronically, and a procuring entity needs the prior approval of the Bangladesh Public Procurement Authority (BPPA) to go offline.[2] The Public Procurement Rules 2025, in force since 28 September 2025, supply the detail: methods, thresholds, evaluation, complaints and debarment.[1] [3]

This guide is for contractors, suppliers, consultants and their advisers. It covers portal registration and fees, BPPA's role, each procurement method and its limits, direct procurement, the test for significantly low-priced tenders, consultant selection, the standard tender documents, the effect of a complaint, and enlistment with the Military Engineer Services and other agencies. The 2026 amendments and the Review Panel process have their own TRW guides, which we link rather than repeat.

Summary: Public procurement in Bangladesh now runs on one statute, one set of rules and one portal. A bidder must hold an active e-GP account, pay its fees through an e-GP member bank and submit every tender, quotation or proposal online. The Public Procurement Rules 2025 keep open tendering as the default, allow limited tendering, quotations, reverse auctions and direct procurement only within defined grounds and value limits, and replace the old plus-or-minus 10 per cent price band with a formula that rejects significantly low-priced tenders.

Key point: The rules changed the economics of bidding. The 10 per cent price cap on national works tenders has gone, but bids that fall below a statistically derived floor are treated as financially non-responsive, and on 4 May 2026 BPPA warned that unrealistic pricing used to influence evaluation will be treated as a collusive practice that can lead to debarment.[3] [11]

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The legal framework for e-GP Bangladesh after the 2025 and 2026 reforms

Three instruments now govern the system. The Public Procurement Act 2006 sets the principles and creates the powers. The Public Procurement Rules 2025, published in the Bangladesh Gazette on 28 September 2025, contain 154 rules and 21 schedules and replaced the Public Procurement Rules 2008.[1] [3] The Bangladesh e-Government Procurement (e-GP) Guidelines (Revised) 2025, gazetted on 12 March 2025, govern how the portal is used.[4]

The reforms began with the Public Procurement (Amendment) Ordinance 2025 (Ordinance No. 16 of 2025), which took effect on 28 September 2025, the same day as the new Rules.[3] Parliament then passed the Public Procurement (Amendment) Act 2026, Act No. 41 of 2026, which received assent on 10 April 2026, is deemed to have taken effect on 28 September 2025 and repealed the Ordinance while saving everything done under it.[2] Our guide to the 2026 public procurement amendments covers the full list of changes, and our note on current procurement sources explains which official texts to rely on.

What section 65 and rule 150 now require

The amended section 65(1) requires all public procurement that can be processed on the e-GP portal to be conducted electronically. Where a procuring entity cannot do so, it must obtain BPPA's prior approval, and every procurement plan must be published on the portal.[2] Rule 150 of the Public Procurement Rules 2025 repeats the obligation, routes any request for offline processing through the head of the procuring entity to BPPA, requires contract management to run through the portal's e-CMS module, and requires contract payments to be made through iBAS++, the government's financial management system.[1]

Rule 150(3) contains a rule of priority that bidders often overlook: where the Rules and the provisions governing electronic procurement conflict, the electronic provisions prevail.[1] In practice this means the system's timestamps, automatic opening and dashboard notices are the operative record. The government's direction of travel is clear: on 7 July 2026 the State Minister for Planning told BPPA stakeholder workshops that the government wants mandatory e-GP in all public procurement across the country.[13]

What the portal covers

The revised Guidelines describe the e-GP Bangladesh system as a single web portal through which procuring entities publish annual procurement plans, invitations for tenders, requests for expressions of interest, proposals and quotations, and through which tenders are submitted, opened, evaluated and awarded, contract award notices are published and contracts are managed and paid. The system is hosted in the National Data Centre of the Bangladesh Computer Council, with a mirror site at BPPA, and has been in use since June 2011.[4]

e-GP Bangladesh registration: steps, documents and fees

Every tenderer, applicant and consultant must register before it can download documents or bid. Registration is centralised, so one account serves every procuring entity, and a registered firm can later be named as a joint venture partner using its unique identification.[4]

The registration sequence

The portal sets out the sequence. The applicant uses a certified browser, submits user details through the New User Registration page, verifies its e-mail address with the link and code sent by the system, and receives a second e-mail listing the mandatory documents. It then pays the registration fee at an e-GP member bank, uploads scanned copies of the mandatory documents and the payment slip, and sends photocopies attested by a Class-I government officer to BPPA by post or courier for physical verification. An approval e-mail follows.[6]

The Guidelines add three controls. The system is integrated with the national identity database for identity verification. It records whether an enterprise is women-owned, which for a partnership or company means women hold more than 50 per cent of the shares. And at each renewal it captures updated ownership information, with the entity certifying that its data is current and accepting liability for misrepresentation.[4] False information that is not corrected can lead to suspension or cancellation of the account.[4]

Registration and renewal fees

The portal's current figures are Tk 5,000 for registration and Tk 2,000 for annual renewal for national tenderers, and Tk 12,000 for registration and Tk 5,000 for annual renewal for international tenderers and consultants. Individual consultants are exempt from both.[5] [6] Fees are paid through member banks, which update the system and may add their own service charge, and the government can change the rates; BPPA has power to set or waive charges and must publish a public notice of any change.[4] [5]

Registration fees are separate from tender costs. Tender document fees, where charged, are set by the procuring entity and paid through the bank network before the download link opens, and tender security is submitted through an e-GP registered bank.[5] [8] Keep the company's trade licence and tax documents current too.

The Bangladesh Public Procurement Authority (BPPA): from CPTU to regulator

The Central Procurement Technical Unit was established in 2002 within the Implementation Monitoring and Evaluation Division of the Ministry of Planning. It was converted into a statutory authority by the Bangladesh Public Procurement Authority Act 2023, Act No. 32 of 2023, which Parliament passed on 10 September 2023 and which received assent on 18 September 2023. The first chief executive was appointed on 28 November 2023 and the first board meeting was held on 7 December 2023.[7] The 2026 Act now defines BPPA in the Public Procurement Act by reference to section 4 of the 2023 Act.[2]

What BPPA does

BPPA's published mandate includes formulating procurement policy, strategy and the legal framework; monitoring and supervising compliance with procurement law; proposing amendments to the Act, the Rules and the e-GP Guidelines; operating and managing the e-GP system and its data; preparing, approving and distributing standard tender and proposal documents; issuing guidance on implementation; and fixing and collecting fees and service charges for registration, certificates and tenders.[7]

Under the Rules it also keeps the list of Review Panel experts, nominates panels and receives appeals, although it may not decide complaints itself.[1] For e-GP Bangladesh users, BPPA is the body to approach on portal problems, registration, offline-processing approvals and the reading of standard documents; each procurement decision remains the procuring entity's.

Procurement methods under the Public Procurement Rules 2025

Open tendering is the default for goods, works and physical services. Rule 79 allows a procuring entity to use limited tendering, direct procurement, two-stage tendering, one-stage two-envelope tendering, requests for quotations and reverse auctions instead, but when it departs from open tendering, or from limited tendering among enlisted firms within the Schedule 2 limits, it must record the reasons and justification.[1] Schedule 2 of the Public Procurement Rules 2025 is the place to check every value limit and time period.

Open tendering method (OTM)

Under open tendering, the invitation is advertised, any eligible firm may bid, and the contract goes to the lowest evaluated responsive tender. BPPA's October 2025 standard document for national works above Tk 5 crore illustrates the electronic mechanics: tenders are submitted only through e-GP, late submission is impossible, the system opens tenders automatically after the deadline, clarifications go through the portal and the evaluation report is generated electronically.[8] Tender validity is now normally 60 to 150 days, and a request to extend validity must be made at least 7 working days before expiry.[1]

Limited tendering method (LTM)

Rule 80(1) allows limited tendering where only a limited number of qualified firms can supply specialised items, such as aircraft, locomotives or specialised medical equipment; in an emergency the procuring entity could not foresee and did not cause; where the government has standardised particular brands; to support domestic small and cottage industry under the listed industrial policy; and, within Schedule 2 limits, among enlisted suppliers, contractors and service providers.[1] The first group has no value limit. For enlisted firms the limits are Tk 50 lakh for goods, physical services and single service contracts, and Tk 5 crore for domestic works.[1]

Three features of the enlisted-firm route matter to contractors. First, for domestic works a tender priced more than 5 per cent above or below the official estimate is treated as rejected; the Rules give the example of a Tk 100 lakh estimate, where only bids between Tk 95 lakh and Tk 105 lakh survive.[1] Second, ties at the lowest evaluated price in those works tenders are resolved by public or electronic lottery under rule 119, with no more than three bidders ranked; lottery is not permitted in any other case.[1] Third, the head of the procuring entity must give prior approval, and performance security is not mandatory, although tender security and retention money rules still apply.[1]

Reserved procurement for small, women-owned and new firms

The Rules introduce a social procurement category. Outside specialised procurement, a procuring entity must limit purchases worth at least 25 per cent of its annual operating budget allocation to micro and small enterprises, women-owned enterprises and new enterprises, using limited tendering.[1] Schedule 2 defines a micro or small enterprise as one that received public contracts worth no more than Tk 1 crore in total in the previous three years, a women-owned enterprise as a sole proprietorship owned by a woman, and a new enterprise as one that obtained its first business registration within the previous two years.[1]

Request for quotation method (RFQ)

Rules 90 to 94 govern quotations for low-value, standard items. Schedule 2 sets per-case and annual ceilings that vary by budget and office. A ministry or directorate headquarters buying under the operating budget may use quotations for goods up to Tk 5 lakh per case and Tk 30 lakh a year, and for works or physical services up to Tk 10 lakh per case and Tk 60 lakh a year; under the development budget the limits rise to Tk 8 lakh and Tk 60 lakh for goods, and Tk 15 lakh and Tk 100 lakh for works or physical services. Upazila offices and smaller project directors have lower ceilings.[1]

Quotations are invited through e-GP, the period for submission runs from 3 to 7 days, splitting a requirement to fit under the limit is prohibited, no quotation or performance security is required, and BPPA's standard goods document requires at least three responsive quotations.[1] [9] The same document asks quotationers for a bank solvency certificate showing liquid assets of at least 70 per cent of the estimated cost, and checks prices for significantly low pricing.[9]

Reverse auction, two-stage and two-envelope methods

Rule 95 introduces an online reverse auction for simple standard goods, capped at Tk 3 lakh per case and Tk 20 lakh a year. Two-stage tendering under rules 82 to 85 is reserved for turnkey and complex contracts whose specifications cannot be fixed in advance, with at least 42 days for first-stage proposals. One-stage two-envelope tendering under rules 86 to 89 evaluates technical proposals before prices are opened and needs the prior approval of the head of the procuring entity.[1]

Direct procurement method: conditions, limits and approvals

Direct procurement is the exception the Rules treat with most suspicion. Rule 97 allows a procuring entity to buy goods, works or physical services from a single source without competition, but never to avoid competition or to discriminate against or favour any person. Because direct procurement loses the benefits of competition and can encourage fraud, the head of the procuring entity must strictly control its use, and each decision must be approved by that head or an officer to whom the power has been delegated.[1]

Three forms of direct procurement

Rule 98 recognises three forms: direct contracting, cash purchase and force account. In every case the procuring entity must prepare a detailed description of its requirement, quantity, quality and delivery terms, invite a priced offer from the single tenderer, assess its technical acceptability through an evaluation committee and then negotiate. No advertisement and no tender security are required, but performance security must be taken except for cash purchases, force account and the cases covered by rule 36(8), and a written contract must be signed except for cash purchases and force account.[1] Rule 120 confirms that direct contracting is one of the few cases in which post-tender negotiation is allowed.[1]

When a direct contract is permitted

Rule 99(1) lists the grounds on which a single firm may be invited. They include:

• proprietary goods and related services protected by patent, trade secret or exclusive rights;
• critical components of complex plant that must come from the original manufacturer, supplier or distributor;
• goods sold by a single dealer or manufacturer with no sub-dealer able to offer a lower price and no suitable alternative;
• goods whose price is fixed by the government, such as fuel and fertiliser;
• post-warranty maintenance of high-technology equipment from the manufacturer or its recognised sole importer or dealer;
• perishable goods at a reasonable market price, and new, unused goods offered on exceptionally advantageous terms;
• agricultural and essential products bought directly from farmers at government-fixed prices;
• goods from state-owned factories, physical services from a state entity's own staff, and specialised goods from local small industries to an approved specification;
• spare parts where a change of supplier would make them incompatible with existing equipment; and
• emergency purchases after a natural disaster or for a nationally important event, and urgent or essential purchases, within Schedule 2 limits.[1]

Value limits for emergency and urgent purchases

Schedule 2 caps the emergency grounds. For a natural disaster or similar crisis, the head of the procuring entity may approve up to Tk 1 crore per case, and the ministry Secretary up to Tk 7 crore in special cases; for a nationally important event, the limits are Tk 25 lakh and Tk 3 crore. Urgent or essential purchases have lower ceilings set by office and budget: a ministry may buy up to Tk 7 lakh per case, rising to Tk 25 lakh with the minister's approval.[1] Above those caps, rule 99(2) allows the government, under section 68 of the Act, to use direct procurement in an emergency only on the recommendation of the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs.[1]

Cash purchase and force account

Rule 100 allows cash purchases of low-value goods and urgent works or services without the approval of the head of the procuring entity, but within tight Schedule 2 ceilings: for a ministry or directorate headquarters, Tk 75,000 per purchase and Tk 25 lakh a year under the operating budget, falling to Tk 40,000 and Tk 15 lakh for upazila offices.[1] Force account, the direct hiring of labour for departmental work under rule 101, is capped at Tk 4 lakh per case.[1] Rule 99 also preserves direct contracts with beneficiary groups under approved poverty-reduction projects and local government schemes run under Local Government Division guidelines.[1]

For a supplier offered a direct contract, the risk lies in the record. An award outside the rule 99 grounds, above the Schedule 2 limit or without the required approval invites audit, complaint and anti-corruption scrutiny that can reach the supplier. Ask to see the recorded ground and approval before signing; our guide to corruption laws in Bangladesh explains the exposure.

Abnormally low bids and price-quotation rules

For years, national works tenders were confined to a band of 10 per cent above or below the official estimate, which produced large numbers of identical bids and lotteries. The 2025 Rules removed that cap for national works procurement.[3] The replacement is a test for significantly low-priced tenders. Rule 118(25) requires the evaluation committee, after arithmetical correction and discounts, to identify significantly low-priced tenders in domestic procurement using the method in Schedule 18 and to treat them as financially non-responsive; rule 118(26) then recommends the lowest of the remaining acceptable tenders.[1]

How the formula works

BPPA's standard works document sets out the method in ITT clause 52. The committee calculates a weighted average from three inputs: the official cost estimate (weight 0.20), a price derived from the recent National Public Procurement Price Index (0.30), and the prices of all technically responsive tenderers (0.50). It then calculates the standard deviation of the quoted prices around that average. Any tender below the weighted average minus one standard deviation is a significantly low-priced tender and is rejected.[8]

The price index is calculated from the e-GP system over a 28-day window ending on the day of tender opening, as the national average percentage deviation between official estimates and awarded prices in works contracts awarded in that period, excluding national limited tendering. Where only one tender is technically responsive, the formula is not used: the tender is non-responsive if its evaluated price deviates from the official estimate by more than 20 per cent. The committee may also recommend retention money of up to 20 per cent of the contract price where a tender is front-loaded or unbalanced.[8]

The 2026 crackdown on unrealistic pricing

The removal of the cap produced aggressive underbidding on e-GP Bangladesh works tenders. In a directive of 4 May 2026, BPPA reported bids undercutting official estimates by 50 to 99 per cent and warned of coordinated low bidding to drive out competitors. It told procuring entities to enforce rules 42(2) and 149, to reject significantly low-priced bids without a logical basis, and to scrutinise the breakdown of suspicious bids.[11] Rule 42(2) prohibits any attempt by a bidder to influence the evaluation of tenders.[1]

A circular reported on 12 May 2026 added that procuring entities should seek written clarification and supporting evidence for abnormally cheap bids, and assess the bidder's finances, capability and track record rather than award on price alone.[12]

Other price rules bidders should know

A lowest acceptable tender above the estimate but consistent with market prices may still be recommended, subject to budget, or the scope reduced. A single acceptable tender consistent with the estimate or market may be recommended for award. Equal lowest prices outside the enlisted-works lottery are resolved by past performance, after the committee checks for collusion.[1] The lesson is that a bid must be defensible line by line: price on realistic rates, keep the build-up, and be ready to explain it in writing.

Quality and cost based selection (QCBS) for consultants

Intellectual and professional services follow a separate chapter of the Rules. Rule 124 makes quality and cost based selection the preferred method, to be used in most cases, weighing the quality of the proposal against the cost of the service. Fixed budget selection is appropriate only where the assignment is simple, can be precisely defined and has a fixed budget.[1] Rule 125 allows other methods with the written prior approval of the head of the procuring entity, including least cost selection for standard or routine assignments such as audits and architectural or engineering design of low value.[1]

The QCBS procedure

Rule 126 sets the sequence: an advertised request for expressions of interest, a short list, a request for proposals sent to short-listed consultants, evaluation of technical proposals first, public opening of the financial proposals of firms that pass, combined evaluation of technical and financial scores, and then negotiation with the winning firm.[1] Financial proposals of firms that fail the technical stage are returned unopened.[1]

Weights and the minimum technical score

Rule 139(24) tells procuring entities to treat price as less important than the consultant's qualifications and the quality of the proposal. For complex feasibility and management studies, quality may carry 80 to 90 per cent and cost 10 to 20 per cent, but a 90:10 split needs the recommendation of the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs. The minimum technical score is 70 per cent. For standard services such as pre-shipment inspection or procurement services, lower quality weights of 65:35, 60:40 or even 55:45 may be used.[1] The request for proposals does not disclose the official estimate, but does disclose the expected key staff time.[1]

Rule 139(25) lists five general technical criteria: the firm's specific experience, the adequacy of methodology and work plan, the qualifications of key professional staff, transfer of knowledge where training is included, and local participation. In international requests for proposals up to 10 points may be given for Bangladeshi key experts, and the guide range for key personnel is 40 to 60 points out of 100.[1] Consultants submitting on e-GP Bangladesh should build proposals around the published criteria: generic CVs and boilerplate methodology lose points that price cannot recover.

Standard tender documents and how to read them

The 2026 Act made the standard documents compulsory in terms. Section 12(1) now requires procuring entities to use the standard documents BPPA issues from time to time when preparing prequalification, tender, quotation or proposal documents, and a new section 12(3) allows a development partner's or internationally recognised document to be used, with BPPA's prior approval, only where BPPA has not published one for that method and type of procurement.[2]

Which document applies

Schedule 1 of the Public Procurement Rules 2025 lists the standard documents by code, source and value. For goods, PG1 covers quotations, PG2 limited or open tendering up to Tk 50 lakh, PG3 open tendering above Tk 50 lakh, PG3A framework agreements, PG4 international open tendering, PG5A and PG5B turnkey plant, PG6 international quotations for divisible goods, PG7 IT equipment and off-the-shelf software, PG8 one-stage two-envelope tendering and PG9 direct contracting. For works, PW1 covers quotations, PW2A open tendering up to Tk 5 crore and PW3 open tendering above Tk 5 crore. Consulting service documents distinguish lump-sum and time-based contracts above and below Tk 1 crore, and there are standard enlistment application forms.[1]

BPPA reissued the electronic versions from October 2025 onwards, including e-PW3 for works above Tk 5 crore, e-PG1 for goods quotations up to Tk 8 lakh and e-PG3 for goods above Tk 50 lakh, the last updated in April 2026.[8] [9] [10] Always check the version cited in the invitation.

Structure and what cannot be changed

The works document has ten sections, from the instructions to tenderers and tender data sheet to the bill of quantities, specifications and drawings. The instructions to tenderers and the general conditions must not be altered; the procuring entity tailors the procurement only through the tender data sheet and particular conditions.[8] Read the data sheet first, because it sets eligibility, qualification thresholds, tender security, validity and the evaluation method for that tender. A clause in the data sheet that contradicts the instructions is a classic ground for clarification or complaint, and must be raised within the time limits explained in our Review Panel guide.

Suspension of procurement proceedings during complaints

A complaint does not stop the procurement altogether. Under rule 76(2), while a complaint or appeal is pending before the procuring entity or the Review Panel, no notification of award may be issued, but evaluation and approval may continue.[1] Once an appeal is properly lodged with the fee and deposit, BPPA directs the procuring entity not to proceed to contract until the panel decides. The suspension falls away if the head of the procuring entity, with the approval of the Secretary or minister, certifies that continuing is essential in the public interest, with the grounds recorded.[1]

Two consequences follow for e-GP Bangladesh users. Because an award issued on the portal ends the administrative complaint tiers, a complainant must act before the dashboard shows a notification of award. And because the suspension protects only against award, a complainant should agree to any request to extend tender validity, or it may win the argument and lose its place in the evaluation. The tiers, deadlines, fees, deposits and writ review are covered in detail in our guide to the procurement complaint review panel in Bangladesh.

MES and other agency contractor enlistment

An e-GP Bangladesh account allows a firm to bid, but it does not make the firm eligible for every tender. Many procuring entities restrict limited tendering, and sometimes participation in open tenders, to firms on their own enlistment lists, graded by class or category.

Enlistment under the 2025 Rules

Rule 68 requires a procuring entity that uses limited tendering, or international quotations under rule 105, to keep a list of qualified firms by type of supply, works or service and to update it annually. The list is prepared by an enlistment committee, approved by the head of the procuring entity or a delegated officer, and built from responses to an annual advertisement.[1]

Schedule 2 requires an enlistment committee of at least three members, including one from outside the procuring entity's office and one technical member, and fixes enlistment fees at Tk 5,000 per category and renewal at Tk 2,000, reduced to Tk 3,000 and Tk 1,500 where the sole proprietor is a woman.[1]

A procuring entity without its own list may use lists kept by other major procuring entities or published on BPPA's website, and may also run a separate social procurement list of small, women-owned and new firms.[1] Enlistment is therefore a commercial asset. A contractor enlisted with a large engineering agency can qualify for limited tenders up to Tk 5 crore for works, which are often the core of a mid-sized contractor's pipeline.

Military Engineer Services (MES)

The Military Engineer Services, under the Engineer-in-Chief's Branch of Army Headquarters, procures construction and maintenance works for the armed forces. Its tender notices have typically limited eligibility by MES enlistment class. A Works Directorate notice of 18 November 2018 for works at a naval base, for example, used the open tendering method and admitted MES enlisted Class 'A' contractors, and also contractors enlisted with other government, semi-government and autonomous organisations of similar capacity, provided they held security clearance from the Directorate General of Forces Intelligence.[14]

For defence work, check the enlistment class each notice requires, start any security clearance early, and keep e-GP Bangladesh registration, enlistment and statutory documents in step, since an expired licence can disqualify a strong bid. Joint ventures need proper documentation; see our guide to joint ventures in Bangladesh.

Comparing the procurement methods

The table below summarises the main methods that run on e-GP Bangladesh for goods, works and physical services under the Public Procurement Rules 2025. Values are per case unless stated, and many limits vary by office and budget, so always confirm the relevant Schedule 2 entry. On a phone, scroll the table sideways.

Step-by-step: bidding on e-GP Bangladesh

The sequence below reflects how we prepare clients for a public tender, from registration to contract signing.

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Monitor the dashboard daily, because the system notice, not an e-mail, is the operative communication, and treat every clarification and complaint as part of the record. Our guide to bank guarantee encashment in Bangladesh covers the guarantee disputes that often follow.

What to watch in 2026 and 2027

Three developments will shape the next year. The government is pushing for complete electronic processing, and BPPA presented a roadmap to a fully integrated digital procurement framework in July 2026.[13] Enforcement against low-priced and collusive bids is tightening, with debarment under rule 149 the sanction to watch.[1] [11] And BPPA keeps reissuing standard documents, so check each version.

TRW advises contractors, suppliers, consultants and joint ventures on e-GP registration, method and eligibility questions, low-bid challenges, complaints and contract disputes. See our construction claims and project disputes practice, our constitutional and writ litigation practice, or contact TRW.

Frequently asked questions

Is e-GP mandatory for all government procurement in Bangladesh?

For all procurement the portal can process, yes. Section 65(1) of the Public Procurement Act 2006, as amended by Act No. 41 of 2026, and rule 150 of the Public Procurement Rules 2025 require electronic processing, and a procuring entity needs BPPA's prior approval to process a procurement offline.[1] [2]

How much does e-GP registration cost?

Tk 5,000 to register and Tk 2,000 a year to renew for national tenderers, and Tk 12,000 and Tk 5,000 for international tenderers and consultants. Individual consultants are exempt, and banks may add a service charge.[5] [6]

What documents are needed for e-GP registration?

The system e-mails a list of mandatory documents after e-mail verification. Scanned copies and the fee payment slip are uploaded, and photocopies attested by a Class-I government officer are sent to BPPA for physical verification before approval.[6]

What is the difference between BPPA and CPTU?

CPTU was a unit within the Implementation Monitoring and Evaluation Division established in 2002. The Bangladesh Public Procurement Authority Act 2023 converted it into a statutory authority, BPPA, which now runs e-GP, issues standard documents and oversees compliance.[7]

When can a procuring entity use the direct procurement method?

Only on the grounds listed in rule 99, such as proprietary goods, sole dealers, government-fixed prices, compatible spare parts and emergencies within Schedule 2 limits, and with the approval of the head of the procuring entity or a delegated officer.[1]

Is the 10 per cent price limit still in force for works tenders?

Not for open tendering. The Public Procurement Rules 2025 removed the plus-or-minus 10 per cent cap for national works, but limited tendering among enlisted firms for domestic works rejects bids more than 5 per cent above or below the official estimate.[1] [3]

How is a significantly low-priced tender identified?

The committee calculates a weighted average of the official estimate, a price-index figure from e-GP and the responsive bids, and rejects any tender below that average minus one standard deviation.[1] [8]

What is the minimum technical score under QCBS?

Seventy per cent. Quality may carry 80 to 90 per cent of the combined score for complex studies, but a 90:10 split requires the recommendation of the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs.[1]

Does filing a complaint suspend the tender?

It blocks the notification of award while the complaint or appeal is pending, but evaluation and approval may continue, and a public interest certificate can lift the suspension.[1]

Can a contractor not enlisted with MES bid for MES works?

Only if the notice allows it. MES notices have admitted contractors enlisted with other government or autonomous bodies of similar capacity, subject to DGFI security clearance, so the eligibility clause of each notice decides.[14]