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C. Higher Level Objectives to which the Project Contributes
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C. Higher Level Objectives to which the Project Contributes8. The proposed project contributes to the Borrower’s higher-level objectives of expediting poverty reduction, improving the investment climate, and accelerating private sector-led growth that are identified as priority objectives in the Seventh Five Year Plan (FY16–FY20)—Accelerating Growth and Empowering Citizens of the government. Aligned with the government’s priorities, the Bank’s Country Partnership Framework (CPF) 2016–2020 (Report No. 103723-BD, April 5, 2016) includes enhancing growth and promoting inclusion as focus areas. Increasing effectiveness and efficiency in the use of public resources through good procurement practices are seen as important factors for improving the investment climate and accelerating the pace of poverty reduction. The expansion of e-GP system will improve procurement related governance issues at local level providing greater transparency with reduced discretionary authority for all sector operations in Bangladesh. By addressing the demand-side issues of engaging beneficiaries/citizens, the project will help the public sector organizations to achieve sector objectives by establishing a system of accountability and fairness in the execution of their procurement activities. The project is thus well aligned with the CPF’s objectives. It is also aligned with the WB’s core procurement function to work closely with clients to support the development of their public procurement systems including innovations in procurement.
10. The direct beneficiaries of the project are the public sector organizations and the private sector entities in particular the bidding community (contactors, suppliers, consultants). Eventually, the beneficiaries are the common citizens using public services covering all sectors across the country. The project is designed to support priority areas for improving efficiency and transparency of public spending in development projects, with specific reference to performance improvements in project implementation and procurement. The direct benefits envisaged under the project would include faster and better use of public resources, reduction of corruption and increased aid utilization capacity. The project would improve public confidence and enhance the capacity of domestic construction and consulting industries to participate more effectively in national and international procurement. The e-GP will boost the trend of digital culture and create more job opportunities in the IT sector. All of these will thus contribute to the creation of good investment climate in Bangladesh. In the longer term, all the above would create a powerful force toward more transparent and accountable institutions, resulting in accelerated economic growth and faster poverty reduction.
11. For the purpose of the project, procurement performance relating to the PDO will be measured considering the SPSOs covering about 900 key procuring organizations out of a total of about 1300 in the country that will use e-GP. The 32 SPSOs have a combination of 28 new SPSOs (NSPSOs), and 4 previous SPSOs (PSPSOs) under the ongoing PPRPII. Under the NSPSO, local government institutions within the Local Government Division has been considered as one SPSO (Pourashava- 327; Upazila Parishad- 491; Zilla Parishad- 61; and City Corporations- 9 excluding Dhaka North City Corporation and Dhaka South City Corporation). For the NSPSOs, the key focus will be on e-GP expansion (bid invitation to award) and capacity development while for the PSPSOs it will be on the e-contract management. Concurrently, IMED will enhance its capacity for on-line implementation monitoring of development programs/projects in the SPSOs. The list of SPSOs is attached to Annex 1. 12. Key Results and Indicators: As part of performance improvement, the project will address elements of efficiency, transparency, and accountability. The project is expected to achieve the following key results at the project end (2022). The result indicators’ baseline and project end value is also provided: NSPSOs procurement lead time reduced in national competitive bidding (NCB) using e-GP system (invitation to contract award): 70 days (baseline 100 days); NSPSOs invite bids in NCB through e-GP system: 75percent (baseline 2 percent); Selected sub-districts engage citizen monitoring in contract implementation: 45 sub-districts (baseline 4); and SPSOs project implementation monitored on-line by IMED – 45 percent projects (baseline 0).
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