With the launching of the web portal by the Finance Minister to facilitate the e-procurement system for procurement of all the goods, services and works in the public sector the most transformational change in the Sri Lankan, public procurement domain has been established.
The Department of Public Finance of the Finance Ministry took measures to develop e-GP system with the technical assistance of the Theekshana R & D, University of Colombo - in complying with the recommendations and guidance of the Working Group appointed by the Cabinet of Ministers, following the 4th South Asia Region (SAR) Procurement Conference on the Theme “e-GP in South Asia”, opened by the President in 2017 in Sri Lanka. Cabinet approval was granted on the Cabinet Memo presented by Minister of Finance, Mangala Samaraweera.
Director General of the Public Finance Department, P. Algama said, in future, it will be made compulsory that the procurements notices of goods, services and works of government institutions be published on this website. “The government and private sector suppliers will be able to register in this website and make their responses conveniently to the respective procurement demands spell out in the procurement notices published in this webportal by the public institutions. This will expand the transparency, quality, account ability and efficiency of the government procurement process leaving no room to defects, malpractices and corruptions,” he added.
All the government institutions are capable of using this e-procurement systems by registering under this website operated by the Public Finance Department of the Ministry of Finance and, a user name and a password should be obtained for this purpose. Government and private sector institutions who desire to supply goods, services and works to the government institutions shall also be registered in the similar way which would make the procurement process efficient eliminating inherited delays in the process.
Algama said, approximately abou Rs. 750 billion (20-25%) out of the total government budget of Rs. 3,000 billion is expensed through the procurement process. Implementation of this e-procurement system will prevent corruptions, malpractices and the delays in the procurement process. The method of publishing procurement notices in newspapers could be avoided under this system.
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