GeM & e-Procurement

DIRECTORATE GENERAL
OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT
( DGHRD)

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 Procurement of Goods
GFRs 2017

Rule 154: Purchase of goods without quotation

Purchase of goods upto the value of Rs. 25,000 only.

Rule 155: Purchase of goods by Purchase Committee.

Purchase of goods costing above Rs. 25,000 and upto Rs.2,50,000/- on the
recommendations of a Local Purchase Committee.
Rule 160: E-procurement
It is mandatory for Ministries/Departments to receive all bids through e-
procurement portals in respect of all procurements.
Rule 149: GeM
The GeM portal shall be utilized by the Government buyers for direct
on-line purchases

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Rule 161: Advertised Tender Enquiry
Subject to exceptions incorporated u n d e r R u l e 1 5 4 , 1 5 5 , 1 6
2and166,invitation to tenders by advertisement should be used for
procurement of goods of estimated value of Rs. 25 lakhs and above.
Advertisement in such cases should be given on Central Public
Procurement Portal(CPPP) www.eprocure.gov.in and on GeM and on its
own website.

Rule 162: Limited Tender Enquiry

This method may be adopted when estimated value of the
goods to be procured is up to Rupees Twenty five Lakhs.

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 e-PROCUREMENT
 
• W.e.f. 01.04.16 e-Procurement mandatory for all Ministries/Departments of
the Central Government for all procurements as per Department of Expenditure
instructions.

• CBEC opted for the e-procurement solution developed by NIC which can be
accessed on the link http://eprocure.gov.in having detailed guidelines on how
to use the solution .

• All purchasing entities in the Department should publish details of the Bid
award on Central Public Procurement Portal (CPP) as per Department of
Expenditure OMs available on their website http://finmin.nic.in.

• DGHRD has issued Circulars and is holding trainings in RTIs all over the
country w.e.f August,2016.

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 Tender Information can be published in the
Central Public Procurement Portal using
ePublishing module or XML meta data
transfer or eProcurement module available
at CPPP
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 e-Publishing & e-Procurement modules of CPPP Portal

e-Procurement
E-Publishing
https://eprocure.gov.in/eprocure/app
http://eprocure.gov.in/epublish/app

 Facilitates all the Ministries/Departments • For Ministries/Departments intent

and their attached/subordinated offices to to use NIC-e-Procurement Solution
publish their Tender Enquiries, under CPPP, the e-Procurement
Corrigendum and Award of Contract module facilitates them.
details.
 Manual Bids are received. • Online Bids are received.
 No Digital Signature Certificates usage.
• Digital Signature Certificates are
required.
 Free to use.
• Based on the volume of tenders,
training and on-site handholding
requirements, operational support
charges may be there.
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 GOVERNMENT e-MARKETPLACE (GeM)

Rule 149,GFR 2017

The GeM portal shall be utilized by the Government buyers for
direct on-line purchases as under :-
(i) Up to Rs.50,000/- through any of the available suppliers on the
GeM, meeting the requisite quality, specification and delivery
period
(ii) Above Rs.50,000/- up to Rs.30,00,000/- through the GeM Seller
having lowest price amongst the available sellers, of at least three
different manufacturers, on GeM

(iii) Above Rs.30,00,000/- through the supplier having lowest price,

using online bidding or reverse auction tool provided on GeM.

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 Government e-Market place (GeM)

The “GeM” i.e. Government e-Marketplace is a Digital India

Initiative for the government users to cater to their demand
of commonly required Goods & Services.

As on date there are……

Buyer Organizations : 19765
Sellers : 51769
Products : 374455

 Taxi services available.

 Direct Purchase
 L-1 Bidding
 Reverse Auction

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 GeM and e-Procurement
DGHRD imparts on-site hands-on training & on-the-spot registration all over India to familiarize the CBEC
formations with GeM and e-Procurement.
• In 2017-18, twelve (12) trainings conducted all over India
• 469 officers from 127 CBEC formations trained.
• 115 CBEC formations registered on the GEM portal as against 64 on 20.09.2017.
• the total number of orders placed on GeM is 1427 and the number of tenders floated via e-Procurement is
653.
• the orders placed and the pending payments reduced to INR 1.03 Crores (as on 31.03.2018) as against INR 4.29
Crores (as reported on 20.09.2017).
• A monthly update on procurements and payments through GeM portal sent to the Financial Adviser.

• A handle on cbecddm.gov.in for submitting the MPR report online has been developed in co-ordination with
Directorate of Data Management and it will be functional in financial year(2018-19).
• Training material and Resources available on the departmental websites (www.cbec.gov.in &
www.dghrdcbec.gov.in) alongwith a hyperlink to the GeM website (gem.gov.in)
• A Power Point presentation (PPT) on GeM procedures uploaded on CBEC websites.
• Standing Committee on Government e-Marketplace constituted to sort out issues including overdue
payments and submit an action taken report and recommendations as required to the Secretary of the
Department.

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 THANK
YOU!

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