As India's only open, Internet-based business-to-business trading platform for the procurement of indirect goods and services, eProcurement.gov.in lowers costs and reduces cycle times for all trading partners. Offering the largest and most comprehensive online assembly of buyers and suppliers, eProcurement.gov.in provides unmatched business benefits for all members of the trading community.

eProcurement.gov.in is built on the Commerce One MarketSite Portal Solution 3.2. Commerce One MarketSite, comprised of leading software and commerce services, enable trading partners to seamlessly exchange business information - and it also provides access to the value-added services that are key to effectively conducting commerce.

• Auction

eProcurement Auction Services offer the best of all worlds by creating a unique application that allows companies to quickly and efficiently participate in dynamic exchanges, including forward auction, request for quote (RFQ), reverse auction, and exchange mechanisms. (more)



• Supplier Adoption

  eProcurement.gov.in enables you, the buyer, to adopt new suppliers in two ways. First, if you are interested in trading with any of these existing eProcurement MarketSite suppliers, we have set up an automated way to do so at Add a Supplier. Second, if you have an existing relationship with a supplier but they are not part of the eProcurement.gov.in community, access the Supplier Adoption area to bring them into the Trading Community.

  
  
• Catalog Management

  Buying organizations do not want to be in the business of content management. eProcurement understands this and has developed tools and services that automate the entire catalog content management process. As a buyer, all you need to know is where to go to find your content and how to download it!! Catalog Download is the answer to you content problems!!

The eProcurement Solution elevates the traditional "buyer - supplier" relationship, offering a strategic competitive advantage to all members of the trading community. Procurement organizations can focus on their supplier strategy, standardize product selections, and aggregate supplier purchases. Supplying organizations can focus activities, offer increased value to their best customers and increase differentiation. All members of the trading community share trading community intelligence and reporting, resulting in better market knowledge and ensuring that participation in the trading community delivers ever-increasing value.

The E-Procurement solution includes the following components:

• Tender Management System ('TMS')
• Catalog based purchasing ('Buysite')
• Auctions Software - Forward/Reverse
• MarketSite Tender Management System (TMS)

Tender Management System (TMS)

C1 India Tender Management Software ('TMS') has been developed/customized keeping in mind the tendering process followed in government and government organizations in India. Care has been taken to ensure that any kind of organization structure and process workflows can be configured on the software.

The Tender Management Software takes the guesswork out of the assessment process - making the selection objective, efficient, repeatable, publishable and auditable. Using the Tender Management solution, the indents, the Notice Inviting Tenders (NIT) requirements, assessment criteria and proposal responses can be linked and viewed by the selection team to ensure requirements are covered and assessment criteria are met. Additionally, the solution captures a complete audit trail of the decision, for internal and independent scrutiny.

The Tender Management solution organizes how bids are managed and evaluated, significantly reducing the administrative overhead. It fully supports the technical and commercial evaluations/assessments along with reasons for the same; not only improving efficiency, but giving more time to focus on the selection criteria and requirements that may represent the greatest risk.

BuySite is a web-based Intranet application that allows procurement organizations to cut indirect procurement costs, decrease rogue buying, increase compliance with negotiated contracts, better leverage procurement expenditures and increase overall operational efficiency

Auctions offers easy-to-use Web-based solutions for conducting dynamic exchanges in an online environment that provides real-time pricing and brings an unprecedented level of profitability, control, and simplicity to corporate procurement and liquidation.

With Auction Software, the buyers can establish real- time market prices for goods or services, thereby achieving a dramatic reduction of purchasing cost and increased profitability through controlled auctions. This is a trading model where a buyer invites many suppliers to bid. This model is also known as a downward auction. Typically, a seller's lowest bid wins the deal.

MarketSite provides the extranet environment required for real-time, interactive communication between members of a trading community. The MarketSite architecture only requires a single, secure Internet connection for each buying and supplying organization. MarketSite provides the means to ensure that all transactive content (e.g. catalog content, pricing and availability) is accurate and up-to-date, and delivers robust trading partner application functionality including on-line order processing, exception handling, distribution and payment. MarketSite also provides the environment for shared trading partner services such as spot buying, surplus disposition, bid & auction, RFP, RFQ and RFP processing and other various financial services.