The Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya organised a workshop on ‘Government e-Marketplace (GeM),’ a completely end to end procurement system for purchase of common use goods and services by Government buyers.
In this workshop senior officials from IGRMS as well as from various Central Government departments in Bhopal participated. Chairing the Workshop, DS Rao (Head of Office, IGRMS) said, “GeM is a completely online and end-to-end integrated e-procurement portal for products and services for government bodies.” The workshop was organised by K Seshadri and Garima Anand Dubey moderated it.
Speaking about the merits of the new procurement system, Deputy Director General (QA), RD Shivsharan said, “GeM works as a facilitator between Private/ Government sellers and government bodies. It is a one stop online marketplace for Government buyers for their routine requirements of goods and services. It also provides the facility to purchase in whole sale rate, making good quality product purchasing easier.”
later, SK Gupta GeM (Director(S), DS&D, Mumbai) gave a PowerPoint presentation on ‘interactive basis on GeM’, he explained that GeM accepts only online registration of suppliers and Government buyers using self certification and authentication through Aadhar, PAN, MCA21, Biometric Attendance System (BAS) etc and provides seamless process flow and standardised specifications with complete audit trail. All the activities from registration of Buyers and Sellers to purchase and even payment to the Sellers through Public Financial Management Service are completely online.
Rakesh Kumar, Director (QA), Mumbai gave live demonstration of registration on GeM, purchasing and its payment. He said GeM relieves Government office from tedious and time consuming tendering process and thus cuts down on administrative and transaction costs. Using offline method Kumar explained Warehousing Register, Registration System, Purchase System, Suggestions for Inspection System Capacity Report, MIS items, the tenders online and referrals etc. After the training the officials from DGS&D, Mumbai gave answers to queries from attending Government on GeM.