Mohammed Zulyaminayn

Mohammed Zulyaminayn is a Principal Procurement Officer in ADB Bangladesh Resident Mission (BRM) who provides procurement support across all sectors, including large and complex procurement packages, and facilitates capacity development on procurement of goods, works, and consulting services under Bangladesh portfolio.

Since 2015, Zulyaminayn led design and implementation of web-based Procurement Activity Monitoring Tool (www.bdpamt.org), aimed at assisting executing and implementing agencies. Zulyaminayn graduated in Civil Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) in 1993 and earned a Master’s in Civil Engineering from Texas A&M University (TAMU), USA in 2002. He conducted research at Texas Transportation Institute (TTI), developed a pilot software application for Adaptive Prediction of Pavement Performance, and won the 2nd prize from American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).

He has been certified National Procurement Trainer since 2007 and life fellow of the Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh. In 2010, he completed “Training of Trainers” on “CIPS Level-5 Advanced Diploma” by Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply (CIPS), U.K.

During 30 years of experience directly related to public procurement, Zulyaminayn worked with two large government departments in Bangladesh, also worked for major development partners: Asian Development Bank (ADB), World Bank (WB) and former Department for International Development (DFID), U.K. as procurement expert and provided support for efficient procurement of goods, works, and consulting services under various development projects including capacity building of concerned executing agencies.

During his employment as government official for Local Government Engineering Department (LGED), he directly supervised many packages of procurement of goods and works through international competitive bidding, and recruitment of international consulting firms, and provided solutions to a wide spectrum of complex issues related to procurement within government offices. He was the key responsible person for procurement management of goods and works during his tenures in district and upazila offices of LGED. He was also involved in implementation of large procurement contracts of LGED, such as: Construction of Flyover at Khilgaon in Dhaka City. He worked in the core group of LGED officials for introducing Managing for Development Results (MfDR) supported by Asian Development Bank (ADB) and facilitated preparation of Internal and External Results Framework for LGED as a development institution.

He was engaged as a consultant in world bank funded Public Procurement Reform Project in Bangladesh and worked for procurement capacity development of a large government organization, the Roads & Highways Department from 2008 to 2010.

For continued professional development, Zulyaminayn has successfully completed more than 50 trainings/ seminars/ workshops/ study tours in different esteemed institutions around the globe in Bangladesh, Denmark, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Lao PDR, Nepal, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Thailand, USA and India.