Abstract:
In Bangladesh, procurement of goods, works and services using public fund is made
following the Public Procurement Act-2006 (PPA-2006) and Public Procurement Rules-
2008 (PPR-2008). In this process a competent bidder is selected applying some
predetermined qualification criteria through a free and fair tendering process. These
qualification criteria are set in Standard Tender Documents (STD) issued by Central
Procurement Technical Unit (CPTU) and the tendering process is restricted by the act of
PPA-2006 and rule of PPR-2008. The selected bidder or the contractor completes the
contract of goods, works and services as per agreement. In some cases, the contractors
could not complete the contract as per agreement and in some cases they would complete
the work with considerable delay and even the contract would be abandoned.
In this project work, the qualifying criteria of the bidders and their threshold levels set in
standard tender documents and tendering process of Bangladesh as well as in some of
neighboring countries have been studied. In this regard, a survey was conducted over
small to large sized construction firms about their technical and financial abilities. This
survey work consists of eighteen numbers of construction firms whose technical and
financial strength are studied. A contract of each firm has been studied in detail. These
projects include successful, delayed and abandoned contracts. Detail information of these
construction firms including the causes of success and failure of the said contracts in the
light of threshold levels of qualifying criteria are presented in this thesis.
Survey data of the above construction firms have been used to establish the relationship
among the threshold levels of bidder’s qualification criteria with the success and failure
of the construction projects. From the survey data, it was also attempted to find out the
rationality of the threshold levels for tenderers’ eligibility criteria in the standard tender
documents under public procurement Act.-2006 (PPA-2006). At the end of the thesist,
comments and as well as some suggestions on rationality of the existing thresholds
values have been made to overcome the problems facing during the tendering process in
Bangladesh.
