SHILLONG: In order to facilitate the government departments across various states to bring in more transparency and efficiency in the entire procurement process, the National Informatics Centre (NIC) has developed a generic e-Procurement system, which is generic in nature and can be easily adopted for all kinds of procurement activities such as goods, services and works by the government offices.
To further illuminate on the usage of this system, a one day state level workshop on e-Procurement for contractors was organised by NIC, ministry of communication and information technology, government of India in collaboration with state public works department on Monday at the Yojana Bhavan, which was also attended by PWD (cooperation department) minister Saleng Sangma as the chief guest.
The aim of this system is to ensure transparency and non discrimination amongst bidders by allowing free access to tender documents, clarifications, secure on line bid submission and access to bid opening event to all from any place 24×7. Using the system through internet in a faster and a more secure environment adopting industry standard open technologies.
The system has been designed in taking into account the tender rules followed by the various states and the CVCs guidelines on tendering.
The main functionalities covered are, registration of government officials and bidders in different roles, tender creation and publishing of corrigendum and decisions of pre-bid meeting, online bid submission, resubmission, withdrawal as per the needs and an online tender opening and decryption of bids.
Some of the silent features build into the system are facility for online and offline payment of tender fee and EMD, exemption of EMD, encryption of bids submitted by the bidder, facility of single, two, multi covers bid system, offline technical evaluation, generation of comparative charts for financial bids, uploading of committee recommendation, evaluation summaries at stage of the tender process, publication of award of the contract information, communication of event alerts by mail to various stake holders, status of each tender at various stages and a detailed MIS report module.
