Dubai Municipality has partnered with Tejari, a leading provider of electronic contract systems in the UAE, to launch a new project aimed at developing new procedures on electronic-based tendering and awarding of bids.

The ‘Automating Procedures of Engineering Contract Department’ project was officially launched by the municipality’s Contracts and Purchasing Department.

The project, which boosts Dubai Municipality’s e-transformation efforts, lays the groundwork for automating the contract tendering and awarding process besides building modern efficiencies, and enhancing accuracy and efficiency in the awarding of engineering contracts.

Hussain Nasser Lootah, the director general of Dubai Municipality, said: "The project will accelerate the municipality’s smart transformation efforts as well as improve transparency, reliability and competitiveness in the process of awarding and tendering contracts."

"It aims to produce tangible and positive results in terms of sustainability by converting paper-based transactions into e-transactions," stated Lootah.

"Additionally, it serves as a solid foundation for developing an integrated and coherent smart services in line with the objectives of Dubai Plan 2021 that focuses on building a leading and innovative government capable of meeting individual and societal needs," he added.

Marwan Al Naqi, the chairman of Tejari, said: "We are confident that the new project will complement the Contracts and Purchasing Department’s initiative to promote paperless transactions in support of ongoing efforts to reduce the number of customers going to all government entities to 80 per cent by 2018," he added.

The project involves the activation of a contract and purchasing system in eSupply, the official central procurement portal of Dubai Smart Government in co-operation with Tejari.

This ensures the electronic integration of purchasing and contracts procedures into the unified system in a bid to modernise the Contracts and Purchasing Department’s procedures and enhance its performance amid rapid smart transformation developments.-TradeArabia News Service