(IGP) Special Current Affairs Material for IAS (Pre) 2013

Chapter: Gist of Press Information
Bureau Articles

NIC has developed a generic e-Procurement solution called
GePNIC (Government e- Procurement system from NIC) which can easily be
adopted by the government organizations for all kinds of procurement
activities such as Goods, Services and Works.
The main functionalities covered under GePNIC are –
Registration of Government officials under different roles; Registration of
Bidders; Tender Creation (Multiple Covers) and Publishing; Publishing of
Corrigendum and decisions of Pre-bid meeting; Online Bid submission by the
Bidders; Online Tender opening and decryption of Bids at various stages;
Evaluation of Tenders; and Award of Contract.
The GePNIC system has strong in-built security features
including two-factor Authentication with Digital Signature Certificates (DSCs)
as per IT Act, usage of Secured Socket Layer (SSL), Role-based User Access
and Bid-encryption at client-end using PKI technologies. The GePNIC system
has been security audited by STQC and other third party agencies.