A comparative analysis between STD (Goods) of PPR 2008 and SPD (Goods) of WB procurement guideline and lessons from WB procurement guideline

Abstract

Bangladesh is a country that has already graduated as a developing country. The Country requires robust and sustained economic growth to maintain that economic position. To this end, to bring discipline to the Public Procurement of Bangladesh, Public Procurement Regulation 2003 has been promulgated. Later on PPA- 2006 and PPR-2008 have been promulgated and the Public Procurement Regulation was abolished. The public procurement of Bangladesh has been regulated by PG-2006, PPR-08, STDs, and SRFPs. The provisions of these instruments keep changing based on reality. All the procuring entities in the public sector come under the same umbrella of those above-mentioned acts and rules. These acts and rules are very comprehensive and cover almost every aspect of national and international procurement for all nature of procurement. In Public Procurement PPR will not be applied fully when development partners are involved and their guidelines will prevail. This can be said that the maximum guidance in the two guidelines is almost the same and there are some minor differences in some specific cases. There are some differences between PPR and the World Bank Procurement guideline. The Standard Tender Document of the Bangladesh government is Prepared by following PPR and the Standard Procurement Document of WB is Prepared by following WB Procurement Guideline. Both two Regulations are Regularly updated by the relevant authority. After analysis of both tender documents of PPR and WB, this can be suggested that some issues can be included in PPR from WB guidelines for betterment of Public Procurement like Stans Still Period before NOA, Negotiation and BAFO for goods procurement, Cost of Ownership, Procurement Related Complain, abnormally low bid and proposal, Guideline for Value for money.