(Effective: December 2025 – December 2026) A comprehensive updated guideline for Government & PSU Tendering (GeM + e-Procurement + Manual Tenders) 1. General Principles of Public Procurement Transparency – All tender-related information must be publicly accessible. Fair Competition – Equal opportunity to all eligible bidders. Value for Money (VfM) – Selection must be based on the best combination of cost + quality. Accountability – Every procurement step must be documented. 2. Tender Types in 2025 Open Tender (Most preferred) Limited Tender (Restricted to shortlisted vendors) Single Tender / Nomination Basis (Only with strong justification) Two-Bid / Two-Stage Tender Reverse Auction (RA) – Mandatory on GeM for certain categories BOQ-Based Bidding – For works, services & custom items 3. Eligibility Rules (Updated 2025) PAN, GST, UDYAM / MSME certificate mandatory for participation. MSME Benefits applicable only if: ...
GeM Exclusive : The Saras Collection GeM Exclusive : The GeM is marketplace based public procurement portal with following the exclusive offering making it unique and superior portal than its peers. 1. Category and catalogue based procurement portal 2. Wide varities of procurement modes, DP, L1, PBP, Bid/RA 3. Automated rule based system driven enforcement of MSE and MII provisions. 4. Unique Bid representation module where a sellers can raise representation against a bid available in public domain. 5. Unique challenge rejection window for bidders: All disqualified bidders get right to challenge their bid rejection. Buyer cannot proceed further without replying to the challenge It is increasing transparency. 6. Advance analytics for the decision support system and fraud and anomaly detection. 7. Furthermore the process of procurement is faceless and transparent in which sellers identity is...