Manama: Dr. Abdulla Taleb, Chairman of the Council for Regulating the Practice of Engineering Professions (CRPEP), announced that CRPEP's operations have now become completely digital, and all applications can be submitted online through the Licensee Portal, which is available on the new CRPEP website (www.crpep.bh).
According to Bahrain News Agency, this marks a significant milestone achievement in the Automation Project undertaken by CRPEP in line with the strategic directions of the Government of the Kingdom of Bahrain. The work on the Council's ERP Project commenced in 2023 with the signing of the contract with AlAmthal Group. By February 2024, the CRPEP manual records for entities and their engineers were digitised, and the licensing processes for engineers were also automated through the backend of the ERP system. The Accounting System and HRMS were also commissioned in parallel to support the automation of the Engineers Licensing processes.
Subsequent modules of the ERP Project were sequentially rolled out, and the system achieved commercial operation in early July 2025, after completing the various contractual formalities. Hasan Al Sheikh, the CEO of CRPEP, added that the total transformation of CRPEP's operations from fully manual to a fully digital system demonstrates a paradigm shift in the work culture of CRPEP within a very short time frame and has led to highly improved efficiency in meeting its clients' requirements.
CRPEP has successfully transformed into a paperless environment by virtue of digitised workflows and an automated response system for clients' applications. An additional achievement under the ERP System is the launching of the new state-of-the-art and bilingual website to establish a real-time digital CRM interface with the engineering entities and engineers in the Kingdom. Al Sheikh said that he was expecting all the Entities to register themselves within the Licensee Portal to experience a seamless transaction in all their license applications. CRPEP has recently issued a circular to this effect and also intends to hold familiarisation workshops in the coming period.