Brief Background
- An e-marketplace for public procurement of common use goods and services
- It is end-to-end automated solution for government buying, right from order to fulfilment
Objectives
- To enhance competitiveness, transparency, and accountability in public procurement
- To provide competitive prices and reliable quality of products/services to government buyers
- Tofacilitate due payment to suppliers in timebound and systematic manner
Benefits and Impact
- 166 K Primary Buyer Organisations
- 11,073 Product Categories and 344 Service Categories
- 7.2 Million orders served worth USD 62 Billion in last FY
Implementation Methodology
- Managed Service Provider (MSP)selected via RFP process is managing continuous development and operation of Government e-Marketplace (GeM) System
Modalities of implementation
- Multi-lingual Support
GeM portal is optimized for languages being written from left to right. For other languages, support would be required to be built in. - Multi-Currency Support
GeM currently supports only INR transactions. - Business RuleEngine
GeM currently is optimized for procurement by Indian central and state entities based on GFR guidelines and associated business rules. Customization may be required basis the rules/laws of target country. - Organization Hierarchy Considerations
GeM currently follows 4 level Organization hierarchy which would be required to be mapped for friendly countries.
Use-cases
- Procurement of common use goods – IT Products, Automobiles, Furniture, etc
- Procurement of services – data entry, consultancy, cloud, travel, etc
