For buying goods and services, govt organizations float tenders. Manual
tender processes often take three months or longer, which is costly for both
buyer and supplier organizations. Also, the manual process of documentation is
open to human error and prone to misuse. Moreover, collusion among the
contractors bidding for contracts left departments with very few options beyond
the existing vendors. e-Tendering replaces the manual paper-based process with
electronically facilitated processes based on best tendering practices to save
time and money. Buyers are able to manage the tenders coming in, as all tenders
are stored in one place. They can cut and paste data from the electronic tender
documents for easy comparison in a spreadsheet. Evaluation tools can provide
automation of this comparison process. The portal, https://delhi.govtprocurement.
com, provides its members with access to several trading suppliers. eProcurement
Auction Services offers government departments easy-to-use, web-based solutions
for conducting dynamic exchanges in an online environment. The implementation
required people to be trained about the operation of computer & the e-tendering
system (web based) to the tenderers & bidders. They also had to be trained about
the use of digital signatures & downloading of tenders, etc. Benefits: It
creates transparency in the process, which helps generate more revenue to
department; fast and accurate pre-qualification and evaluation, which enables
the automatic rejection of suppliers that fail to meet the tender specification,
faster response to questions and points of clarification during the tender
period, reduction in the labour intensive tasks of receipt, recording and
distribution of tender submissions, and compliance with digital signatures under
the IT Act 2000.
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