Central Public Procurement (CPP) Portal

About Central Public Procurement (CPP) Portal

Definition: e-Publishing and e-Procurement

Mandate from Department of Expenditure

Pre-requisites for using the e-Publishing module of NIC

Pre-requisites for using the e-Procurement module of NIC

Key features of the e-Procurement module of NIC - GePNIC

Agenda

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CPP Portal is the central source of procurement data for

all Government of India entities

Developed by NIC, in response to the mandate from

Department of Expenditure (DoE)

To act as One Stop Shop for all Procurement related

activities

Available at http://eprocure.gov.in

Central Public Procurement (CPP) Portal

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“All Government of India bodies required to publish their tender enquiries, corrigenda thereon and details of bid awards on the CPP Portal using the e-Publishing module.

o Ministries/ Departments and their attached and subordinate offices - 01 January 2012

o CPSEs - 01 February 2012

o Autonomous / Statutory bodies - 01 April, 2012”

“Applies to all Tender Enquiries, Requests for Proposals, Requests for Expressions of Interest, Notice for pre-Qualification, Empanelment, Registration or any other notice inviting bids or proposals in any form, issued on or after the dates indicated above , whether they are advertised, issued to limited number of parties or to a single party.“

Mandate from DoE (OM dated 30/11/2011)

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All Government of India Ministries, Departments and their attached and subordinated offices to start e-Procurement for tenders above INR 10 lakhs

Phase-wise schedule, starting 30 May, 2012

Ministries / Departments may choose to implement NIC’s e-Procurement solution through CPP Portal or any other e-Procurement solution

Attached and subordinated offices to start e-Procurement within 6 months of the parent Ministry / Department

Mandate from DoE (OM dated 30/03/2012)

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e-Publishing v/s e-Procurement on the CPP Portal

e-Publishing e-Procurement

Entails publishing of all tender enquiries, corrigenda thereto and awards of contract thereon on the CPP Portal. Bids will be invited in paper based format.

Covers the complete tendering process - online publishing of tenders, online bid submission, online bid opening, online bid evaluation and publication of award of contract. The complete tendering process will become paperless.

Users can login using a login ID and password. No need for any additional mode of authentication.

Users will be required to have valid Digital Signature Certificates (DSCs), alongwith login ID and password.

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e-Publishing e-Procurement

Bidders are not required to register on the CPP Portal, since the bids will continue to be submitted in the paper based format.

Bidders are required to register on the CPP Portal, using a valid Digital Signature Certificate (DSC) and valid email address. The bidders will be required to submit their bids online on the e-Procurement module of NIC, in an encrypted format.

e-Publishing v/s e-Procurement on the CPP Portal

Nodal Officer selection / nomination

Mapping of organisational hierarchy on CPP Portal

Creation of user accounts of procuring entities

Training of users for publishing tenders on the CPP Portal

No need for Digital Signature Certificates (DSC)

No need for bidders to register on the CPP Portal

Pre-requisites for e-Publishing module

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Acquiring Digital Signature Certificates (DSC) by the users of the procuring entity

Nodal Officer selection / nomination

Mapping of organisational hierarchy on CPP Portal

Creation of user accounts of procuring entities

Acquiring Digital Signature Certificates (DSC) by the bidders

Training of users for e-Procurement

Registration of bidders on the CPP Portal

Pre-requisites for e-Procurement module

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About GePNIC

•Works

•Goods

•Services related tenders.

Generic Solution - Can easily be adopted for

• Tender Creation and Publishing

• Bid submission

• Bid Opening

• Updating bid evaluation recommendations

• Award of Contract.

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Registration of Bidders and Govt. officials in different roles

Tender Creation and Publishing

Publishing of Corrigendum and Pre bid meeting decisions

Online Bid submission/ resubmission/ withdrawal as per the needs (configurable)

Facility for offline payment of Tender Fee and EMD

Encryption of bids submitted by the bidders

Online tender opening

Live bid opening for the bidders

Technical & financial evaluation updations

Award of the contract

Mail / SMS communication to stakeholders

Tender status on different stages of the tender

Digital signing of all documents

Report/MIS module