ABOUT GeM
GeM Government e-Marketplace
Government e-Marketplace, shortly known as GeM, is a digital platform that enables buying and selling of goods and services. GeM portal is a paperless; contactless and cashless online marketplace. The sole purpose of GeM is to enhance efficiency; transparency and speed in public procurement. In nut-shell, government departments/ agencies, being a registered buyer, procure goods and services from the registered seller via the GeM portal. The current article briefly covers the history and statistics of the GeM portal; the objective of the GeM portal; the benefits of the GeM portal to buyers and sellers; the registration process for both buyers as well as sellers and the details of caution money payment by the sellers.
History and statistics of the GeM portal:
GeM portal is an online platform for public procurement in India. The portal was launched on 9th August 2016 by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry. Interestingly, the GeM portal was created in a record time of five months. Notably, the initial version of the GeM portal was hosted and developed by the Directorate General of Supplies and Disposals under the Ministry of Commerce and Industry. However, the present GeM portal is developed and managed by the Managed Service Provider (i.e., MSP). Statistically, as of 31st August 2021, the GeM portal had 25,98,510 sellers and service providers. Further, it had about 16,409 product categories summing up to about 52 Lakhs products. Talking about service categories, the GeM portal had 193 service categories.
GeM ADVANTAGE
Government e-Marketplace (GeM) is the Public Procurement Portal for procurement of goods and services for all Central Government and State Government Ministries, Departments, Public Sector Units (PSUs) and affiliated.GeM endeavours to make public procurement process transparent, efficient and inclusive. Following are the advantages of GeM It acts as a centralized and unified public procurement platform for government buyer organizations and suppliers of goods and services, accompanied by:
- Policy reforms for current processes of public procurement ecosystem
- Driving Inclusiveness and Ease of Doing Business (EoDB) with the government (especially for smaller organizations such as MSMEs)
- Standardization of processes backed by the regulatory framework
- A fully automated system enabled through advances technologies
GeM EXCLUSIVE
The GeM is marketplace based public procurement portal with following the exclusive offering making it unique and superior portal than its peers.
- Category and catalogue based procurement portal.
- Wide verities of procurement modes, DP, L1, PBP, Bid/RA
- Automated rule based system driven enforcement of MSE and MII provisions.
- Unique Bid representation module where a sellers can raise representation against a bid available in public domain.
- Unique challenge rejection window for bidders: All disqualified bidders get right to challenge their bid rejection. Buyer cannot proceed further without replying to the challenge It is increasing transparency.
- Advance analytics for the decision support system and fraud and anomaly detection.
- Furthermore the process of procurement is faceless and transparent in which sellers identity is not reviled till opening of L1.
- The process of registration and product/service offering on GeM is complete online and free.
- The GeM provides opportunity to MSEs, startup and women entrepreneurs to get register on GeM and participate in bids and get preferences as per procurement policies as applicable and enforceable.
OUR GeM SERVICES
This is the heading
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Ut elit tellus, luctus nec ullamcorper mattis, pulvinar dapibus leo.
This is the heading
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Ut elit tellus, luctus nec ullamcorper mattis, pulvinar dapibus leo.
This is the heading
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Ut elit tellus, luctus nec ullamcorper mattis, pulvinar dapibus leo.
This is the heading
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Ut elit tellus, luctus nec ullamcorper mattis, pulvinar dapibus leo.
This is the heading
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Ut elit tellus, luctus nec ullamcorper mattis, pulvinar dapibus leo.
This is the heading
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Ut elit tellus, luctus nec ullamcorper mattis, pulvinar dapibus leo.
Get A Free Quotation
