Chapter: Gist of Press Information Bureau Articles

Topic: E-Procurement System For Transparent Governance

Q. What is GePNIC?

• NIC has developed a generic e-Procurement solution called GePNIC (Government e- Procurement system from NIC) which can easily be adopted by the government organizations for all kinds of procurement activities such as Goods, Services and Works.

• The main functionalities covered under GePNIC are - Registration of Government officials under different roles; Registration of Bidders; Tender Creation (Multiple Covers) and Publishing; Publishing of Corrigendum and decisions of Pre-bid meeting; Online Bid submission by the Bidders; Online Tender opening and decryption of Bids at various stages; Evaluation of Tenders; and Award of Contract.

• The GePNIC system has strong in-built security features including two-factor Authentication with Digital Signature Certificates (DSCs) as per IT Act, usage of Secured Socket Layer (SSL), Role-based User Access and Bid-encryption at client-end using PKI technologies. The GePNIC system has been security audited by STQC and other third party agencies.

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