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Public procurement of goods and services touched Rs 6,894 crore on government buying portal GeM in April alone on account of steps taken by the platform such as rapid onboarding of buyers and sellers across India and development of custom features for large players, a senior official said on Tuesday. The Government e-Market (GeM) portal was launched on August 9, 2016, for online purchases of goods and services by all the central government ministries and departments. The total gross merchandise value of the orders placed on GeM platform in April was Rs 6,894 crore, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of GeM Prashant Kumar Singh told PTI.
›Public procurement of goods, services touches Rs 6,894 crore on GeM in April: CEO P K Singh
Public procurement of goods, services touches Rs 6,894 crore on GeM in April: CEO P K Singh
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Public procurement of goods, services touches Rs 6,894 crore on GeM in April: CEO P K SinghPTI
Last Updated: May 11, 2021, 04:12 PM IST
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Government e-Market portal was launched on August 9, 2016, for online purchases of goods and services by all the central government ministries and departments.
The value exceeds the value of procurement done over the platform in June quarter and September quarter of the previous financial year.
GeM took several steps for easy procurement of critical health equipment: CEO
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Last Updated: May 10, 2021, 03:00 PM IST
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The Commerce Ministry launched Government e-Marketplace (GeM), an online platform for public procurement, in August 2016 with the objective of creating an open and transparent procurement platform for government, which runs in several lakh crore.
Services, including transportation, logistics, waste management, web casting and analytical, are listed on the portal.
Public procurement portal GeM has implemented several steps such as rapid onboarding of sellers of oxygen cylinders and concentrators, to enable easy buying of critical health equipment by government agencies in the wake of on-going second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in the country, a senior official said on Monday.