Coal India Ltd.

Coal India (CIL) has been awarded for ‘innovative use of its fully automated tendering process’ at a national workshop organised by the Ministry of Finance, Department of Expenditure, NIC, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology.

Coal India and its subsidiaries have a dedicated e-procurement portal which was developed in 2013 in association with National Informatics Centre (NIC). Coal India had used the GePNIC software for online bidding. It uses the conventional two-cover system for technical and price bids for procurement of goods, works and services.

In January 2016, CIL designed the e-procurement process for automatic evaluation of bids and online submission of EMD. The EMD of unsuccessful bidders is refunded automatically once their bid is rejected.