Central Public

Procurement (CPP) Portal

Agenda
 About Central Public Procurement (CPP) Portal
 Definition: e-Publishing and e-Procurement
 Mandate from Department of Expenditure
 Pre-requisites for using the e-Publishing module of NIC
 Pre-requisites for using the e-Procurement module of
NIC
 Key features of the e-Procurement module of NIC -
GePNIC

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Central Public Procurement (CPP) Portal
 CPP Portal is the central source of procurement data for
all Government of India entities

 Developed by NIC, in response to the mandate from

Department of Expenditure (DoE)

 To act as One Stop Shop for all Procurement related

activities

 Available at [Link]

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Mandate from DoE (OM dated 30/11/2011)
 “All Government of India bodies required to publish their
tender enquiries, corrigenda thereon and details of bid awards
on the CPP Portal using the e-Publishing module.
o Ministries/ Departments and their attached and
subordinate offices - 01 January 2012
o CPSEs - 01 February 2012
o Autonomous / Statutory bodies - 01 April, 2012”
 “Applies to all Tender Enquiries, Requests for Proposals,
Requests for Expressions of Interest, Notice for pre-
Qualification, Empanelment, Registration or any other notice
inviting bids or proposals in any form, issued on or after the
dates indicated above , whether they are advertised, issued to
limited number of parties or to a single party.“

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Mandate from DoE (OM dated 30/03/2012)
 All Government of India Ministries, Departments and their
attached and subordinated offices to start e-Procurement
for tenders above INR 10 lakhs
 Phase-wise schedule, starting 30 May, 2012
 Ministries / Departments may choose to implement NIC’s
e-Procurement solution through CPP Portal or any other
e-Procurement solution
 Attached and subordinated offices to start e-Procurement
within 6 months of the parent Ministry / Department

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e-Publishing v/s e-Procurement on the CPP Portal
e-Publishing e-Procurement
Entails publishing of all tender Covers the complete tendering
enquiries, corrigenda thereto and process - online publishing of tenders,
awards of contract thereon on the online bid submission, online bid
CPP Portal. opening, online bid evaluation and
publication of award of contract.
Bids will be invited in paper based
format. The complete tendering process will
become paperless.

Users can login using a login ID and Users will be required to have valid
password. No need for any Digital Signature Certificates (DSCs),
additional mode of authentication. alongwith login ID and password.

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e-Publishing v/s e-Procurement on the CPP Portal
e-Publishing e-Procurement
Bidders are not required to Bidders are required to register on
register on the CPP Portal, since the CPP Portal, using a valid Digital
the bids will continue to be Signature Certificate (DSC) and
submitted in the paper based valid email address.
format.
The bidders will be required to
submit their bids online on the e-
Procurement module of NIC, in an
encrypted format.

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Pre-requisites for e-Publishing module
 Nodal Officer selection / nomination
 Mapping of organisational hierarchy on CPP Portal
 Creation of user accounts of procuring entities
 Training of users for publishing tenders on the CPP Portal

 No need for Digital Signature Certificates (DSC)

 No need for bidders to register on the CPP Portal

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Pre-requisites for e-Procurement module
 Acquiring Digital Signature Certificates (DSC) by the users
of the procuring entity
 Nodal Officer selection / nomination
 Mapping of organisational hierarchy on CPP Portal
 Creation of user accounts of procuring entities
 Acquiring Digital Signature Certificates (DSC) by the
bidders
 Training of users for e-Procurement
 Registration of bidders on the CPP Portal

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 About GePNIC

Generic Solution - • Works

Can easily be • Goods
adopted for • Services related tenders.

• Tender Creation and Publishing

• Bid submission
Primarily caters to • Bid Opening
the processes of • Updating bid evaluation
recommendations
• Award of Contract.
Features of the system Registration of Bidders and Govt. officials in different roles

Tender Creation and Publishing

Publishing of Corrigendum and Pre bid meeting decisions

Online Bid submission/ resubmission/ withdrawal as per the needs (configurable)

Facility for offline payment of Tender Fee and EMD

Encryption of bids submitted by the bidders

Online tender opening

Live bid opening for the bidders

Technical & financial evaluation updations

Award of the contract

Mail / SMS communication to stakeholders

Tender status on different stages of the tender

Digital signing of all documents

Report/MIS module