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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

  • 117,315 Primary Buyer Organisations
  • 11,828 Product Categories and 312 Service Categories
  • 5 Million orders served worth USD 24.19 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

High level Architecture

Contact Us

  • Mr. Prashant Kumar Singh
  • ceo-gem@gov.in
GitHub / openforge Link:
  1. https://openforge.gov.in/plugins/git/umn
Website Link:
  1. https://gem.gov.in/

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