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    Sustainable procurement: scope and practice in the public sector in Bangladesh

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    2012-12
    Publisher
    BRAC University
    Author
    Kamruzzaman, Md.
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    http://hdl.handle.net/10361/2795
    Abstract
    Sustainable procurement (SP) is procurement that is consistent with the principles of sustainable development, such as ensuring a strong, healthy and just society, living within environmental limits, and promoting good governance. Sustainable procurement is an approach that takes economic, environmental and social sustainability into account when making any purchasing decisions. Public procurement is concerned with how public sector organizations spend tax payers’ money on goods, works and services. Public procurement is guided by principles of transparency, accountability, and achieving value for money for citizens and tax payers. An analysis through the review of public procurement documents to find out the possible scope of sustainable procurement in present public procurement framework reveals that although there are some provisions in the PPR, 2008 and STDs which relate to the sustainability issues, these are not sufficient in introducing sustainability in the public procurement. The current scenario of sustainable procurement practice in the public sector has been studied through interviews with key procurement professionals from a number of public sector organizations addressing three aspects namely economic, environmental and social aspect of sustainable procurement. The analyses indicate that although there are a few cases where some sustainability issues are in practice, these are not very common as a whole in the public sector. Existing tendering system in Bangladesh is still based on the lowest price approach and whole life costing approach is rarely considered in various public sector organizations. Majority of the public sector organizations do not have any provision as such an environmental management system with the exception of a few. The study indicates that at present there is virtually no mechanism in our public procurement system to check the environmental performance of contractors/ suppliers. public procurement ensures equal opportunity to all. The Public Procurement Rules, 2008 does not allow making specifications which may exclude some of the suppliers/ contractors. Ethical labour practice is present, although not to a great extent, in the procurement system. Female labour participation is not adequately ensured though the contract terms, although contractors sometimes engage female labour force for their own interest. Sustainability criteria should be embedded in the tendering system. Knowledge and awareness at the individual procurement professional level seem important in order to make active sustainable procurement choices. A clear commitment is necessary from the very top of government and down through the ministries, authorities and chief executives in all public bodies. It is necessary to formulate a sustainable procurement policy and to align the public procurement framework with the policy. Political willingness is required at the initial stage for such a policy. The government needs to come forward to remove the barriers to sustainable procurement – whether actual or perceived. Awareness campaign should be arranged focusing on how to take account of non-monetary benefits of sustainable procurement. Finally, there is scope to further study about the sustainability issue. Advanced research needs to be conducted in order to get a deeper insight into the sustainability issue in relation to the public procurement.
    Keywords
    Procurement and supply management
    Description
    This dissertation report is submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Masters in Procurement and Supply Management, 2012.
     
    Cataloged from PDF version of thesis report.
     
    Includes bibliographical references (page 55).
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    Institute of Governance Studies, BRAC University
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