No manual tendering from 1 July

To implement of electronic Government Procurement (e-GP) in line with the Public Procurement Act, there will be no further scope for conducting manual tenders from 1 July, 2026.

SM Moin Uddin Ahmed, Chief Executive Officer (Secretary) of the Bangladesh Public Procurement Authority (BPPA), said this during a national workshop on procurement post review held at the BPPA conference room on Tuesday.

He said if any tender process is initiated manually before 1 July, 2026, the remaining stages of that tender process will also continue manually, said a press release. However, from 1 July, 2026 onwards, the BPPA will no longer allow offline tendering, he added.

The BPPA so far has allowed manual tenders upon application of organizations for waiver from using e-GP due to various limitations faced by Procuring Entities (PEs).  The CEO noted that no further applications seeking exemption from e-GP would be approved after 30 June, 2026.

Since the Public Procurement (Amendment) Ordinance, 2025 came into effect on 28 September, 2025, the use of e-GP has been mandatory for all public procurement activities.

The gazette of the Public Procurement (Amendment) Act, 2026 ratifying the Ordinance into the law was published on 10 April, 2026.