Abstract:
Government of Bangladesh has implemented Electronic Government Procurement (e-GP)
solutions in 2011 for its procurement as a step towards digital Bangladesh. Since then e-GP has
brought a change in the businesses process of public procurement. There are limited empirical
studies in the literature on the adoption of e-procurement in Bangladesh, that is, at the macro level.
Nevertheless, such a study will help to develop policies, strategies, and procedures to
implement e-GP. Understanding the importance of such a study, this study was conducted
based on a questionnaire survey about the user experience and perception about e-GP in
Bangladesh Water Development Board (BWDB). The main objective of this study is to identify
how the users of e-GP are adopting it and what they think about it. A conceptual framework
has been developed for the evaluation of e-GP, and this subsequently has been tested with
data collected from BWDB. Also, this study examines the current status of e- GP acceptance in
BWDB. Finally, some recommendation is proposed based on the conceptual and empirical
analysis for the evaluation of e-GP. The results indicate that despite of some implementation
challenges e-GP system has achieved a wider level of acceptance among Procuring Entities.
Users have very strong perception regarding e-GP that this in future will be very helpful for
ensuring transparency and accountability in Public Procurement Process. And also the think
current e-GP system is showing above average level performance which is not that much
dissatisfactory but there is options and opportunity to improve the performance.
