Effective Good Governance via ePerolehan helps Malaysia Improve Its CPI Ranking

KUALA LUMPUR, 25 JANUARY 2020: Commerce Dot Com Sdn Bhd (CDC) applauds the Government for Malaysia’s improved performance in the 2019 Corruption Perception Index (CPI). The Government of the day has been persistent in its measures to combat corruption and their efforts have proven to be fruitful with Malaysia’s significant improvement in the 2019 CPI ranking. This is especially true with the launch of the National Anti-Corruption Plan (NACP) 2019-2023 in January last year, where increased efficiency and transparency in public procurement is among the 6 priority areas.

Among the measures by the Government to increase and strengthen procurement governance can be seen through the widespread usage of ePerolehan, the official Government electronic procurement system for acquiring goods and services. Last year saw procurements conducted via ePerolehan have grown tremendously to over 2 million transactions valued at RM20 billion. This was the highest record since the inception of the system in the year 2000.