Challenges of public procurement in Bangladesh: a case study on Roads and Highways (RHD)

This thesis is submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Arts in Governance and Development, 2020.

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Glavni avtor: Rahman, Md. Kholilur
Drugi avtorji: Hossain, Shanawez
Format: Thesis
Jezik:English
Izdano: Brac University 2021
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spelling 10361-147582021-07-08T21:01:17Z Challenges of public procurement in Bangladesh: a case study on Roads and Highways (RHD) Rahman, Md. Kholilur Hossain, Shanawez Brac Institute of Governance and Development, Brac University Fair and equitable process Bureaucratization Grandiloquent policies Nagging challenges Traditional practices Legal Review Government purchasing This thesis is submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Arts in Governance and Development, 2020. Cataloged from PDF version of thesis report. Includes bibliographical references (pages 43-46). Challenges affecting public procurement performance has been attracting attention from procurement conceiving scholars, practitioners, academicians and researchers due to impoverished performance resulting from non-affinity to precise processes and procedures and significant other activities. Roads and Highways Department has sought out to ensure fair and equitable process of public procurement. The purport of this thesis is to provide more effective understanding of why and how RHD faces challenges on account of limitation of policies and bureaucratization. Public procurement performance has been affected by as some of the key challenges i.e. grandiloquent policies, procurement process, financial delegation of power, lack of accurate knowledge of policies, ethics and stakeholder management, frequent procurement. Legislations to regulate public procurement process in RHD have been implemented, through enactment of the Public Procurement Act (2006) and Public Procurement Rules (2008). The main results show that selection of appropriate contract is exhibited to poor ranking wherein existing policies are nagging challenges in some areas. Traditional practices public procurement is to foster extensive use of numerous tender activities schedule while record keeping system is neglected by offsetting the public procurement performance. Finally, some recommendation for simplifying rules, more circumscribed management discretion, and a vigorous but ethical and legal review of procurement decision is addressed. Md. Kholilur Rahman M. Governance and Development 2021-07-08T09:53:30Z 2021-07-08T09:53:30Z 2020 2020-02 Thesis ID 19372002 http://hdl.handle.net/10361/14758 en Brac University theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. 62 pages application/pdf Brac University
institution Brac University
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language English
topic Fair and equitable process
Bureaucratization
Grandiloquent policies
Nagging challenges
Traditional practices
Legal Review
Government purchasing
spellingShingle Fair and equitable process
Bureaucratization
Grandiloquent policies
Nagging challenges
Traditional practices
Legal Review
Government purchasing
Rahman, Md. Kholilur
Challenges of public procurement in Bangladesh: a case study on Roads and Highways (RHD)
description This thesis is submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Arts in Governance and Development, 2020.
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title Challenges of public procurement in Bangladesh: a case study on Roads and Highways (RHD)
title_short Challenges of public procurement in Bangladesh: a case study on Roads and Highways (RHD)
title_full Challenges of public procurement in Bangladesh: a case study on Roads and Highways (RHD)
title_fullStr Challenges of public procurement in Bangladesh: a case study on Roads and Highways (RHD)
title_full_unstemmed Challenges of public procurement in Bangladesh: a case study on Roads and Highways (RHD)
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