Bangladesh: Govt will now go for direct procurement

15 June 2018: The government has backtracked on its stance of going for a limited tendering for its billion dollar digital connectivity project to be bankrolled by Exim Bank of China. Now, Beijing-nominated China Railway International Group will directly be appointed to establish the massive fibre optical connectivity across the country. In a meeting with the prime minister's ICT Affairs Adviser Sajeeb Wazed Joy in December last year, it…