After making e-procurement from the Government e-Marketplace (GeM) mandatory for all departments, the Commerce Ministry is now planning to set up a company for the management of it. The move will make GeM an autonomous body, which will help in taking all the decisions including those related to finance at a faster pace. The move would also help to take real-time decisions like hiring of manpower.
The GeM is a platform for the Central Government departments to source goods and services online, which also provides the tools of e-bidding and reverse e-auction as well as demand aggregation to facilitate the government users to achieve the best value for the money.
The GeM was launched last year and to make use of this portal, the Finance Ministry has amended the General Financial Rules (GFRs) as per which it is now compulsory to procure items and services from it. Currently, it sells over 9,000 products from 250 categories including computers, stationery and several services. The Directorate General of Supplies and Disposals (DGS&D) who has developed this portal is working on increasing the number of services ranging from cleaning and plumbing services to the digitisation of records. With increasing use of the portal by central government departments, several states have approached the DGS&D for adopting similar practices.
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