The departments that have adopted the platform include Public Works, Ports and IWT Dept (PWD), Sarvasiksha Abhigyan (SSA), Karnataka Drug Logistics Warehousing Society (KDLWS), Krishna Bhagya Jala Nigama Limited (KBJNL) and Center for e-Governance (CEG).
The solution running on HP infrastructure, including HP Blade servers, HP SAN Storage and Enterprise Class Applications based on open source technology has already resulted in tangible benefits to the departments. Proof Points from the point of view of benefit to the GOK, include a reduction of the tender processing time from estimate preparation to tendering, in the case of PWD – a reduction of up to 40 per cent on transaction time.
For the contractor community, specific benefits include the reconciliation of Earnest Money Deposit (EMD) and other payment related parameters by a 50-60 per cent as all payment transactions are now enabled online.
One of the leading benefits of the e-Procurement initiative has been the standardisation of public procurement practices across departments for works and goods procurement.
As part of the partnership, training has been conducted by HP for both, the contractor community (works and goods) and government users and individual department employees. The training spans both the operational use of the portal as well as management of change to address the behavioural aspects of the shift to an e-Procurement platform. This training would continue till such time as all the departments are on board and will be supplemented by on-call support as and when required. |
E-Procurement is a hype and full of corruption. The contract awarded to HP for implementing e-procurement itself is marred with corruption. The fact also remains that Hp doesn't have a e-procurement platform. They are using a third party software to sell their own hardware products.
