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| 100 percent implementation of e-Tendering system in JK | | Tenders valuing Rs 83,47,715 lakh hosted on JK e-tendering portal since its adoption | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Dec 26: Tendering is an important aspect for execution of works or procurement of supplies by organizations. No such activities could get legally culminated without floating tenders in the market. Tendering not only warrants procurement of quality products and services of definite specifications but also acquiring of these on competitive rates.
Tenders floated by the organizations also put the tenderers under legal obligation to procure items only as per the benchmark descriptions in a specific timeframe.
J&K, like every other government, tenders the works that has to be executed here. Earlier, the procedures were time-consuming as it used to have lot of paperwork and physical exertions.
So in the year 2011, J&K Government initially made it mandatory for its departments to go for Information and Communications Technology (ICT) based mechanism of procurement of goods, services and works costing above Rs 5.00 lakhs which was subsequently reduced to Rs 1.00 lakh in 2015. All the stages of e-procurement process are now conducted through the e-procurement system of NIC (GePNIC) on its state portal jktenders.gov.in. The system transacts its business in an efficient, economic, transparent and secure manner.
The Finance department has achieved tremendous success in implementation of e-Tendering system in the Union Territory of Jammu & Kashmir. With continuous advice and guidance of the Financial Commissioner Finance, all Government Departments, other bodies have, in the past one year, been able to ensure 100 percent implementation of this technological intervention for making all transactions in efficient and secure manner.
This mechanism ensured that every work gets notified on the mass communication based web portal. It helps in improving its reach to maximum number of bidders.
Every registered bidder is provided with a login-id for uploading their bids after their enrolment on the portal and submitting the Digital Signature Certificate (DSC) for certifying the online forms. No bidder can remap the DSC for any other account anywhere once mapped on the e-tendering portal. This ensures that the same is not misused by proxy bidders not registered on the portal.
From the initial 710 tenders valuing Rs 7,769 lakhs back in financial year 2011-12 to 27989 tenders valuing Rs 9,21,154 lakhs floated up to November this year (2019-20), the portal narrates its success story itself. The cumulative number of tenders uploaded on the portal till date are 1,54,701 worth Rs 83,47,715 lakhs making J&K 9th in the country when classified on the number of tenders uploaded online. 4,279 tenders have been uploaded on this portal by different government agencies in the month of October, 2019 upgrading J&K in the hierarchy to 6thnumber when categorised on similar lines for the month.
Around 50,000 bidders have enrolled themselves on the portal till date after obtaining the requisite DSCs. |
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