Govt of NCT Delhi : Online e-Procurement System

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.