Good Practices and Innovations in Public Governance 2003-2011

2007 Category 1: India
Furthermore, the e-procurement system has allowed for the standardization of procurement
processes across government departments. At the outset, an effort was
made to standardize the procurement processes and forms used by the various departments
and especially for works tenders. Today, all the departments follow a
common tendering process and forms for works tenders. Even these processes are
being re-engineered to further improve the efficiency and curtail subjectivity in tender
evaluation on the part of the department users. A similar exercise is underway
for products as well. The e-procurement project has also reduced the costs of governance.
Due to increased efficiency, the time spent on the processes has been reduced
by approximately 70%. This has resulted in reduced costs of the government administration
and overheads.
The government has set up a corpus fund outside the regular treasury controls with
contributions from all the successful vendors using the e-procurement platform.
50% of the accruals are channeled back to the participating departments for buying
computers, peripherals, internet connections and the 50% balance is used for consolidating
the initiative like conducting trainings for users, seminars and workshops
etc. This project has received several awards in the past besides the United
Nations Award.
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