Electronic Government Procurement (e-GP) is not a new phenomenon to the world. Countries like Canada, USA and Singapore started e-GP in 90’s while India and Bangladesh started it a decade ago.

The e-GP is to facilitate highly secured electronic tendering process which strictly adhering to Government tender process. Hence, no one will be able to violate the Government tender process and it leads to many benefits.

e-GP had reduced corruption of many Governments across the world and it had increased the transparency, efficiency, value for money and most importantly the accountability of public servants.

Sri Lanka will soon implement e-GP across all Government Entities. Asian Development Bank and World Bank is supporting the development and implementation of e-GP in Sri Lanka. Entire population of the country will benefit in many avenues while the business community specially the SME sector will benefit most.

Some of the benefits for business community –

  • Paperless transactions – Tender calling and tender submission will be paper free
  • No travelling – No physical participation for tender submission, Bid opening etc.
  • Entry in to the business is easy – No need to have contacts, no bribes, no commissions.
  • Higher Trust by Vendor Community
  • Improving the country’s rankings – Ex: Ease of doing business index

The Sri Lankan Government e-GP portal is freely accessed by anyone around the world, by the url promise.lk

Already there are more than 2000 vendors registered and system has planned to cater up to 500,000 vendors. The vendor registration is now open.

e-GP system development time scale in the world

promise.lk web portal