Shillong, Oct 29: A One Day State Level Workshop for government officials on Government e-Procurement System of NIC (GePNIC) organized by the National Informatics Centre (NIC) Shillong in collaboration with State Information and Technology, department, was held Monday at Information and Technology building.
Meghalaya chief secretary WMS Pariat inaugurated the workshop in the presence of DP Wahlang, Commissioner & Secretary, Information Technology Department,S Bhardwaj, IIS, ministry of commerce and T Dkhar, State Informatics Officer.
Pariat said that Government e-Procurement System of NIC aim at transparency and non discrimination amongst bidders by allowing free access to tender documents, secure on -line bid submission and access to bid opening event to all from any place at any time using the system through internet. The workshop would help expedite the implementation of e- Tendering and e-Procurement system in the different state government departments which would save a lot of time and reduce the cost implementation,. Pariat said.
The workshop was conducted by NIC, Chennai led by Srinivas Raghavan, senior technical director. The main topics for the workshop include Overview of GePNIC, goals under Mission Mode Project, Security aspects, presentation on Tender Creation and Publishing, Preparation of Price Bid, Standardization of My Space Requirements, Bid submission, Evaluation across all departments.
It may be mentioned that the National Informatics Centre (NIC) Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Government of India has developed its own e-Procurement software solution, GePNIC to cater to the procurement of tendering requirements of Government departments and organizations. The solution is generic in nature and can easily be adopted for all kinds of procurement activities such as goods, services and works by government offices.
The main function of e-Procurement System includes registration of Government Officials and bidders in different roles, tender creation and publishing, publishing of corrigendum and decisions of pre-bid meeting, online bid submission, resubmission, withdrawal as per the needs and online tender opening and decryption of bids.
The National Informatics Centre has standing arrangements through NICSI to facilitate the implementation of the GePNIC solution, including domain specific 3rd agencies, to provide manpower support for handholding, training and helpdesk facilities as per the needs of user department on payment of suitable charges.
It may be added that the Department of Commerce, Ministry of commerce and industry, Government of India has mandated early and fast adoption of a standardized e-Procurement System in State Government Departments through the Mission Mode Project on e-Procurement.-By Our Reporter
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