DOHA: The Public Works Authority — Ashghal — has launched a new e-payment service that will speed up its tender procedures.
The service will enable companies to buy and download the authority’s tendering documents and circulars online through Ashghal’s website www.ashghal.gov.qa.
Ashghal started receiving request to buy tendering documents electronically from the first quarter of 2015, after cancelling the manual system.
This function is one of many important services that Ashghal’s integrated Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system offers, Ashghal said yesterday. This system will work on replacing the manual paper system for financial and administrative processes with the electronic systems aiming to increase the efficiency of processes and internal procedures in the authority.
This electronic platform is designed especially to include all contractors’ information, in addition to offering them exclusive services such as: sending tenders alerts and allowing participating companies to review all updated information about open tenders.
The automation will also include awarding and delivering contracts to companies electronically. This will in turn save a lot of the time needed to send and track important documents. Most second phase services are expected to be activated during 2016, while the development and addition of more services to the system will continue, based on work requirements and the need for these services that will keep on elaborating with the progress of the implementation and activation.
