By Sandeep Rana | Sr. GeM / E-Tender Manager & Business Development Manager (BDM) Meta description (for Blogger search description): Losing GeM bids even with the lowest price? Learn the five technical rejection mistakes sellers make and a simple pre-submission checklist to protect your next bid. Labels: GeM Portal Expert, GeM portal consultant, tender executive, GeM bid rejection, L1 comparison You studied the bid, calculated your cost, and quoted the lowest price. Then the result came: rejected . Not because of price, but because of technical compliance. If this has happened to you, you are not alone. In my 10+ years of supporting sellers on the Government e-Marketplace (GeM), I have seen one pattern again and again: most bids are lost on compliance before price is even looked at. Being L1 only matters if your bid gets through technical evaluation first. In this post I will walk you through the five most common reasons good bids get rejected, and a checklist you can use befor...
GeM in FY 2025-26: What the Latest Numbers Mean for Sellers, and Why Bids Still Fail Before Price Latest GeM data for FY 2025-26: ₹18.4 lakh crore total GMV, 68% of orders to MSEs, and how to avoid technical rejection. Expert checklist inside. Data below is from official releases and news reports published April to August 2026. Check the live figures on gem.gov.in before you quote them to a client. The big picture On 6 April 2026 the Ministry of Commerce and Industry announced that GeM's cumulative Gross Merchandise Value (GMV) since 2016 had reached ₹18.4 lakh crore , with more than ₹5 lakh crore transacted in FY 2025-26 alone. A report by Business Standard put FY26 at about 75.7 lakh orders. One detail most posts skip: the FY26 total was ₹5.03 lakh crore, about 7.4% lower than ₹5.43 lakh crore in FY25 . The official statement attributed the dip mainly to smaller order values from central public sector enterprises (CPSEs). So the market did not grow in value this ...