ADB undertakes Business Opportunities Seminars (BOSs) in its members to improve the interest and ability of eligible suppliers to locate ADB business opportunities, prepare high-quality and responsive bids, and understand ADB’s procurement and anticorruption procedures.

The Asian Development Bank acknowledges that the global construction industry faces many challenges that will impact participation in and pricing of large-scale ADB-funded infrastructure projects. The continued effects of COVID-19, higher construction material costs, labor shortages, surging inflation, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, high energy and commodity prices, and supply chain bottlenecks all affect contractors' interest in ADB-funded projects.

The Bangladesh Resident Mission (BRM) of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) organized a business opportunities seminar (BOS) annually as its flagship event to attract quality suppliers, contractors, and consultants from Bangladesh and abroad to participate in ADB-funded projects. The BOS apprised participants of the business opportunities available for ADB-funded projects in Bangladesh. At the time, the uncontracted amount under ADB-funded projects in the country stood at $2.9 billion.

ADB undertakes business opportunities seminars (BOS) in its members to improve the interest and ability of eligible suppliers to locate ADB business opportunities, prepare high-quality and responsive bids, and understand ADB’s procurement and anticorruption procedures.