Aiming to ensure greater transparency and revolutionise government procurement, government has launched the Government e-Marketplace (GeM).
What is GeM?
GeM is a completely end to end procurement system for purchase of goods and services of common use by the government buyers.
The pilot phase of the GeM has been developed jointly for selective goods and services.
The entire process flow designing has been done in house in order to bring greater transparency, speed and efficiency in public procurement.
It is completely an end to end online procurement system including payment to suppliers.
GeM relieves public offices from tedious and time consuming tendering process and thus cuts down on administrative and transaction costs.
It will help in online registration of suppliers and government buyers using self-certification and authentication through Aadhar, PAN, MCA21 and Biometric Attendance System.
It will also facilitate seamless process flow and standardised specifications with complete audit trail.
All transactions in GeM are completely secure.
A call centre for GeM has also been set up to help both buyers and sellers in conducting their transactions on GeM.