In the move set to get the government in direct contest with e-commercial centers like Flipkart and Amazon, the Government e-Marketplace (GeM) entry will before long be opened up to private purchasers.
The official procurement portal is presently limited to government divisions, yet will before long permit private substances to put mass buys. It will therefore be widened to ticket purchasing too, GeM Chief Executive Officer Tallen Kumar said.
Government workers for hire will likewise gain admittance to the entrance, he added.
A Cabinet note with this impact has been drifted, authorities said. E-commercial centers have been feeling the squeeze to unveil their merchant records and assessment subtleties, after homegrown dealer bodies kept on failing them for ridiculing unfamiliar direct venture rules and push profound limits.
Gems officials also defended the online portal on the problem of government departments continuing to purchase offline. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman last month said the ministry was looking into Rs 91,000 crore worth of purchases made by the public sector undertakings (PSUs) & government outside the GeM system.
Gems as of now has 295,000 merchants and specialist co-ops, a figure higher than the 100,000 venders that Flipkart professes to have, on its true site. Diamond authorities say the gateway may before long cross Amazon India accounted for merchant count of 400,000. In excess of 13,500 dealers were added to the entrance in September itself, official information showed.
Plans are forthcoming to begin evaluating the credit scores of dealers. An internet based merchant evaluation framework sent off through the Quality Council of India targets acquiring a more straightforward and faster cycle. Unique hardware makers will be surveyed first and from there on different sellers and specialist co-ops will likewise be evaluated, authorities said.
Merchants can likewise pick their own areas of conveyance, while purchasers can pick through pincode sifting. Named ‘direct buy’, this is set to diminish chances of non-conveyance.
