SOUTH ASIA Bangladesh Governance Global Practice IBRD/IDA Technical Assistance Loan FY 2008 Seq No: 17 ARCHIVED on 06-Jul-2016 ISR22732 Implementing Agencies: Key Dates Key Project Dates Bank Approval Date:05-Jul-2007 Planned Mid Term Review Date:28-Nov-2010 Original Closing Date:31-Mar-2013 Effectiveness Date:12-Sep-2007 Actual Mid-Term Review Date:09-Dec-2010 Revised Closing Date:30-Jun-2017 Project Development Objectives Project Development Objective (from Project Appraisal Document) The Project Development Objective (PDO) is to improve performance of the public procurement system progressively in Bangladesh, focusing largely on the target agencies. The PDO would be achieved by strengthening the ongoing reform process and moving it further along with the following outputs: (i) enhanced capacity in creating a sustained program to develop skilled procurement professionals, (ii) strengthened management and monitoring of procurement in target agencies, (iii) introduction of e-government procurement in CPTU and the target agencies on a pilot basis, and (iv) creation of greater public awareness of a well functioning public procurement system by engaging civil society, think tanks, beneficiaries, and the private sector. All these actions are key elements in effective implementation of the procurement law/ regulations. Has the Project Development Objective been changed since Board Approval of the Project Objective? No PHRPDODEL Components Name Component 1: Furthering Policy Reform and Institutionalizing Capacity Development:(Cost $18.40 M) Component 2: Strengthening Procurement Management at Sector Level & CPTU/ IMED:(Cost $15.90 M) Component 3: Introducing e-government Procurement (e-gp):(cost $19.70 M) Component 4: Communication, Behavioral Change, and Social Accountability:(Cost $5.40 M) Overall Ratings Name Previous Rating Current Rating Progress towards achievement of PDO Satisfactory Satisfactory 7/6/2016 Page 1 of 11
Overall Implementation Progress (IP) Satisfactory Satisfactory Overall Risk Rating Low Low Implementation Status and Key Decisions 1. e-gp system: The progress of implementation of e-gp has been much faster in the last one year and remains promising as it continues to exceed the set target both for e-gp and procurement performance tracking in PROMIS using e-gp. Now, there are over 21,000 registered bidders, with over 55,000 bid invitations, valued about $6 billion. The Clearly, visible impacts are seen on the ground in improving competition, reducing procurement delays, minimizing complaints and coercive/ bid rigging practices at local levels, savings of transaction costs. Currently, about 90% of tender are using e-gp in the four key target agencies. Moreover, the e-gp system is becoming progressively self-sustainable. Revenues have demonstrated the potential of the e-gp system to become sustainable within the project period. IDA is financing the e-gp contract on a declining basis to ensure its self-financing and sustainability within the project period. 2. Communication activities: Since the last mission in November 2015, the communication component made good progress in several activities including piloting citizen s engagement in procurement monitoring, e-gp awareness workshops (53 out of 64 districts), governmentcontractors forum (42 out of 64 districts), e-gp digital billboard, e-gp theme song, and workshops on citizen engagement/social accountability at divisions, districts and sub-district levels. 3. Capacity development: Procurement professionalization/ accreditation program has taken a new dimension in the country. As of now, under the project, 89 participants achieved full member status in the UK-based Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply- MCIPS. Another 26 MCIPS are from the private sector by virtute of the project CIPS program. Second, Bangladesh now has a pool of 60 resource persons (TOTs), with the addition of 21 after following a rigorous process of ITC-ILO/ Turin. Third, 30 TOTs have been provided with advance training at ITC-ILO on public-private partnership, advance contract management, sustainable procurement, and procurement of physical services. Fourth, 16 received Masters in sustainable procurement from ITC-ILO. Fifth, 2700 procurement officials received major three-week training, ensuring one trained/certified staff in each procuring entities of 4 target agencies and 20 additional agencies; thus the impact of transfer/ rotation of staff is minimized significantly. 4. Disbursement: Disbursement is around 76% and the project has been showing tangible result on the ground. 5. Fiduciary progress: Progress is satisfactory. CPTU has recently signed the contract of the new data center and mirror data center with a contract price of US$ 8.7 million. 6. Second Additional Financing: A second additional financing of $10 million for the project has been approved by the World Bank on June 6, 2016. This additional financing will be used mainly to fund the gap for e-gp data center and associated expenses. 7/6/2016 Page 2 of 11
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Risks Systematic Operations Risk-rating Tool Risk Category Rating at Approval Previous Rating Current Rating Political and Governance -- Low Low Macroeconomic -- Low Low Sector Strategies and Policies -- Low Moderate Technical Design of Project or Program -- Low Low Institutional Capacity for Implementation and Sustainability -- Low Moderate Fiduciary -- Moderate Moderate Environment and Social -- Low Low Stakeholders -- Low Low Other -- -- -- Overall -- Low Low Results Project Development Objective Indicators PHINDPDOTBL Percentage of contracts awarded within initial bid validity period by the 4 target agencies (2013-68%, 2014-73%, 2015-78%, 2016-80%, 2017-82%) (Percentage, Custom) Value 65.00 81.00 83.00 82.00 PHINDPDOTBL Four target agencies publish PROMIS quarterly report for monitoring of procurement performance covering 90% of bids invited/ contracts awarded annually (2013-20%, 2014-50%, 2015-70%, 2016-90%) (Percentage, Custom) Value 5.00 90.00 95.00 95.00 7/6/2016 Page 6 of 11
PHINDPDOTBL Four target agencies expand electronic government procurement (e-gp) to all 64 districts using national competitive bidding procurem ent (2013-10%, 2014-35%, 2014-60%, 2016-80%, 2017-83%)) (Percentage, Custom) Value 3.00 262.00 85.00 83.00 Comments As per the agreement of the last review (Nov. 2015) and PPRPII AF2 Project Paper, the methodology to calculate the e-gp indicator has been adjusted. Earlier it was based on the estimated baseline of 9350 bid invitations as described in the original PAD (PPRPII AF). For better clarity, now it has been calculated based on the total number of bid invitations each year (both manual and e-gp) versus only e-gp as its percentage. PHINDPDOTBL Percentage of procuring entities of 20 additional agencies with one trained/ certified procurement staff (2013-10%, 2014-30%, 2015-50%, 2016-70%, 2017-78%) (Percentage, Custom) Value 2.00 75.00 75.00 78.00 PHINDPDOTBL Number of public sector agencies registered in the e-gp system (Number, Custom) Value 2.00 -- 98.00 200.00 Date 31-Dec-2012 -- 31-Dec-2015 30-Jun-2017 Comments As the PPRPII AF2 (approved on June 6, 2016) is also reflected in the ISR, to keep it updated, we included the additional 5th indicator as part of PPRPII AF2 although the mission was based on PPRPII AF only The mission conclusion time and PPRPII AF2 date coincides, hence, we needed to include this in the ISR although not reflected in the aide memoire. Overall Comments Intermediate Results Indicators 7/6/2016 Page 7 of 11
Percentage of procuring entities of 20 additional agencies with one trained/ certified procurement staff (2013-10%, 2014-30%, 2015-50%, 2016-70%, 2017-78%)) (Percentage, Custom) Value 0.00 75.00 75.00 78.00 Number of weeks of procurement training delivered by local training institute (ESCB) with its own fund/ resources outside of PPRPIIAF (2013-5, 2014-25, 2015-45, 2016-55, 2017-55)) (Number, Custom) Value 2.00 43.00 71.00 55.00 Percentage of contract awards published by four target agencies in CPTU's website for awards above PPR specified threshold (2013-75%, 2014-80%, 2015-85%, 2016-90%, 2017-91%)) (Percentage, Custom) Value 70.00 85.00 91.00 91.00 Percentage of complaints handled satisfactorily by four target agencies (2013-35%, 2014-45%, 2015-55%, 2016-70%, 2017-72%) (Percentage, Custom) Value 25.00 60.00 72.00 72.00 7/6/2016 Page 8 of 11
Four target agencies publish PROMIS quarterly report covering 90% of bids invited/ contracts awarded (2013-20%, 2014-50%, 2015-70%, 2016-90%, 2017-95%) (Percentage, Custom) Value 5.00 90.00 95.00 95.00 Percentage of contract/ bid invited through e-gp by four target agencies using NCB in 64 districts (2013-10%, 2014-35%, 2015-60%, 2016-80%, 2017-83%) (Percentage, Custom) Value 3.00 262.00 85.00 83.00 Comments As per the agreement of the last review (Nov. 2015) and PPRPII AF2 Project Paper, the methodology to calculate the e-gp indicator has been adjusted. Earlier it was based on the estimated baseline of 9350 bid invitations as described in the original PAD (PPRPII AF). For better clarity, now it has been calculated based on the total number of bid invitations each year (both manual and e-gp) versus only e-gp as its percentage. Expanding Government-contractors forum to all disitricts and holding semi-annual meetings (2013-10, 2014-20, 2015-40, 2016-64, 2017-64)) (Number, Custom) Value 5.00 16.00 42.00 64.00 Number of e-gp awareness workshops in all districts (2013-10, 2014-20, 2015-45, 2016-64, 2017-64)) (Number, Custom) Value 0.00 19.00 53.00 64.00 7/6/2016 Page 9 of 11
Number of Public-Private Stakeholders Committee (PPSC) workshops/ meetings held (2013-7, 2014-10, 2015-12, 2016-14, 2017-14)) (Number, Custom) Value 6.00 6.00 9.00 14.00 Overall Comments Data on Financial Performance Disbursements (by loan) Project Loan/Credit/TF Status Currency Original Revised Cancelled Disbursed Undisbursed Disbursed P098146 IDA-43500 Effective XDR 15.50 15.50 0.00 15.50 0.00 100% P098146 IDA-52420 Effective XDR 22.80 22.80 0.00 16.27 6.53 71% P098146 IDA-58180 Not Effective XDR 7.10 7.10 0.00 0.00 7.10 0% Key Dates (by loan) Project Loan/Credit/TF Status Approval Date Signing Date Effectiveness Date Orig. Closing Date Rev. Closing Date P098146 IDA-43500 Effective 05-Jul-2007 26-Jul-2007 12-Sep-2007 31-Mar-2013 31-Dec-2016 P098146 IDA-52420 Effective 09-May-2013 10-Jun-2013 28-Jul-2013 31-Dec-2016 31-Dec-2016 P098146 IDA-58180 Not Effective 06-Jun-2016 -- -- 30-Jun-2017 30-Jun-2017 Cumulative Disbursements 7/6/2016 Page 10 of 11
Restructuring History Level Approved on 08-Mar-2013,Level 2 Approved on 29-Sep-2015 Related Project(s) P132743-Additional Finaning of Public Procurement Reform Project II,P158783-Second Additional Financing to Public Procurement Reform Project II 7/6/2016 Page 11 of 11