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E-governance increases the penetrative power of the State, both geographically and demographically. It creates a smaller and smarter back-end, and a bigger & better front-end for government sysytems. As observed by Stephen P. Robinson, it reshapes the philosophy of chain of command. Today, the same is happening in India in multiple dimensions of the governance process. One such process is the behaviour of the State within market place which is now reshaping its philosophy via GeM.
The Government e-Marketplace (GeM) is a national public procurement platform in India that was launched about two years back, in August 2016. Based on the recommendations of the Group of Secretaries made to Hon’ble Prime Minister, the Government decided that GeM SPV will create a one stop Government e-Marketplace (GeM) to facilitate online procurement of common use Goods & Services required by various Government Departments / Organizations / PSUs. GeM aims to enhance transparency, efficiency and speed in public procurement. It provides the tools of e-bidding, reverse e-auction and demand aggregation to facilitate the government users, achieve the best value for their money. Government of India (Allocation of Business) Rules, 1961, vide notification dated 8th December 2017 has made the following entry “32. Development, operation and maintenance of National Public Procurement Portal—Government e-Marketplace”. The purchases through GeM by Government users have been authorized and made mandatory by Ministry of Finance by adding a new Rule No. 149 in the General Financial Rules, 2017. It leverages technology to enhance transparency, efficiency and speed in public procurement. It provides the tools of e-bidding, reverse e-auction and demand aggregation to facilitate the government users achieve the best value of their money. Being paperless, cashless and contactless platform giving end to end solution, there are 3000 plus orders placed on GeM every day across India. GeM SPV As owner of the National Public Procurement Portal (section 8 Company registered under the companies Act, 2013), GeM SPV builds, operates and maintains the GeM platform, which provides for procurement of goods and services required by Central & State Government organizations. GeM SPV provides an end-to-end online Marketplace for Central and State Government Ministries / Departments, Central & State Public Undertakings (CPSUs & SPSUs), Autonomous institutions and Local bodies, for procurement of common use goods & services in transparent and efficient manner. GeM 3.0 The portal was developed by the Directorate General of Supplies and Disposals (DGS&D) with technical support of NeGD. Overall, the platform is managed by fintech startup Intellect Design Arena and ecommerce major Infibeam. GeM program was further transformed in January 2018 when the launch of its 3.0 version. GeM 3.0 offers standardised and enriched catalogue management, powerful search engine, real time price comparison, template-based Bid and RA creation, demand aggregation, e-EMD, e-PBG, user rating, advanced MIS and analytics. Over 40,000 buyers and sellers have need trained so far to seamlessly operate the platform. Till date, the platform claims to have transacted over US$ 1.45 billion worth of Gross Merchandise Value (GMV) via more than 6 lakh transactions. Some notable enhancements in the 3.0 version are market based generic requirements across all government agencies, standardisation of specifications of both products and services enabling empirical price comparability, completely transparent transactions across all ranges, generic standards established through universal service levels and cost comparison enabled and open and dynamic marketplace with rating based on performance of user on website. Rating System To further improve the procurement process, the GeM has recently introduced a rating system for its buyers and sellers. The move will improve transaction efficiency, as buyers will rate government agencies on the basis of their treatment towards their suppliers. If a government agency does not pay on time, rejects orders unnecessarily, does not close its order on time, the pre-set algorithm would downgrade its rating. Similarly, if the seller makes an offer but fails to deliver, or delivers late, or gets rejected for genuine reasons, its ratings get hit. At the same time, the GeM has also introduced a review system that allows government departments to track the progress of the procurement process regularly. Over the past two years, the average payment cycle has gone down from 3-4 months to 23 days. The aim is to further bring it down to 10 days. This has been achieved due to the online transparency in monitoring the payment process status.
Benefits so far
Overall, the project is generating the necessary thrust towards e-governance and is in line with the e-governance motto of - "rationalize the machine, simplify the method and improvise the men."
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