Kathmandu, March 15 -- Contractors will soon have to regularly share updates on the contracts they have in hand as part of the government's bid to discourage those who are already overwhelmed with work.

The Public Procurement Monitoring Office says it is introducing e-procurement system where contractors will have to update the government on the number of projects they are working on and the progress made, which will help the authorities examine the contractors' capacity.

"We'll start with a mechanism that will examine the contractors' bid capacity. We are holding discussions on the formula for determining the bid capacity," said Sunil Kumar Karna, joint-secretary at the Public Procurement Monitoring Office.

Currently, there is no syst...