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EPADS 2.0: where procurement meets digital governance

Pakistan Published 6 November 2026, 21:15 · archived 6 Nov 2026

Pakistan’s public procurement system has quietly crossed an important threshold over the past year, with the e-Pak Acquisition and Disposal System evolving from a platform for electronic tendering into one within which the procurement process itself is now being built. Developing such a system in-house and rolling it out across the entire federal government is no small undertaking. The difference between the first version of EPADS and EPADS 2.0 is fundamental rather than cosmetic. Under the earlier model, specifications, eligibility conditions, evaluation criteria and price schedules were stil...

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