Bureau for Industrial Cooperation (BICO) is a unit of the College of Engineering and Technology (CoET), University of Dar es Salaam that coordinates the provision of Public Service to the Tanzania community in the form of Consultancy, Laboratory and Workshop, and Professional Services in Engineering and related fields. BICO also provides the accumulated body of knowledge to the community through short courses (Professional Development Programs). BICO was established in 1990 and is registered by the Engineers Registration Board (ERB) as an engineering consulting firm since 1999 and is also registered by the National Environmental Management Council (NEMC) to carry out environmental impact assessment since 2017. Moreover, BICO is registered by Architects and Quantity Surveyors Registration Board (AQRB) since 2019 to carry out Quantity Surveying and since 2023 as the Architectural firm. Since 2023, BICO is registered by the Planner Registration Board to provide town planning expertise in urban, rural and regional planning fields. Further, BICO coordinates Laboratories and Workshop services available at CoET, which are registered by ERB as Materials Testing Laboratories.

BICO draws its expertise from a pool of highly trained staff available at CoET, where the majorities are registered by ERB as Professional and Consulting Engineers. The expertise of BICO is so diverse and covers areas such as architecture, structural design as well as structural integrity assessment of existing buildings, construction management and supervision, land surveying including GIS, geotechnical soil investigation, transportation engineering, highway engineering, mechanical and manufacturing engineering, materials testing, energy engineering, mining and metallurgical engineering, quantity surveying, chemical and process engineering, ICT, electrical engineering, strategic management including corporate strategic planning, business planning, town planning, industrial engineering, water resources engineering and management, sanitation, environmental engineering, environmental and social impact assessment (ESIA), and textile design and engineering.