Ethiopia’s Digital Procurement Exceeds 308 billion Birr in Completed Fiscal Year, Says Authority

Addis Ababa, August 11, 2025 (ENA)—The Federal Public Procurement and Property Authority announced that over 308 billion Birr worth of procurement was facilitated through the electronic procurement system during the 2017 fiscal year.

Meseret Meskele, Director-General of the Authority, told ENA that it saw encouraging results in modernizing its public procurement and administration systems.

 The digital procurement system was implemented across 169 federal budgetary institutions and 93 branch offices, facilitating the procurement of some 308.75 billion Birr and of this total, 300 billion birr was procured through bidding and 8.75 billion Birr through price quotations.

 Meseret recalled that in 2016, 65 percent of government procurement was done through the electronic system. She stated that the system became completely digital in the 2017 Ethiopian Fiscal Year (EFY).

 Digital procurement system is one of the national digital practices that demonstrate the success of the Digital Ethiopia 2025 Strategy by streamlining services, reducing bureaucracy, and supporting operations with technology, she indicated.

 Addis Ababa Science and Technology University and the Ethiopian Heritage Authority are among the institutions that implemented their procurement systems entirely digital in the 2017 EFY, it was learned.

  Ethiopian Heritage Authority Director General, Abebaw Ayalew, on his part, said the authority has implemented a digital procurement system since 2015 EFY.

 The authority has made over 960 million Birr of purchases through the digital procurement system in the 2017 EFY, Abebaw noted; pointing out that the digital procurement system is transparent, unambiguous, eliminates corruption, is efficient, and brings many benefits by saving costs.