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Country presentation india. Legislative and regulatory developments. Revision of General Financial Rules (GFR) in 2017 Executive Instructions - Broad Procurement Rules Firstly issued in 1947, revised in 1963 & 2005
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Country presentation india
Legislative and regulatory developments • Revision of General Financial Rules (GFR) in 2017 • Executive Instructions - Broad Procurement Rules • Firstly issued in 1947, revised in 1963 & 2005 • Procuring entities empowered to lay down detailed procedures in conformity with GFR • Few Salient Features of GFR, 2017 • Code of Integrity • Debarment • Purchase Preference-MSMEs, Startups, Domestic Preference (Make in India) • Electronic Procurement • New Frontiers like Sustainable Procurement-Environmental characteristics, LCC can be used as evaluation criteria
Legislative and regulatory developments… • Procurement Manuals • Manual for Procurement of Goods, 2017 • Manual for Procurement of Consultancy and Other Services, 2017
Status of E-GP Introduction and Operationalization • Central Public Procurement Portal (CPPP) - 2007 • Online system with 44 parallel instances; • Non-routine goods, services and works contracts; • Mobile App & Analytics dashboard; • 350,000 Registered vendors & 270,000 Buyer agencies; • USD 984 billion procurement in 4.45 million Tenders till March, 2019; • USD 15 billion procurement in more than 100,000 Tenders every month • Dashboard • Descriptive Charts; • Key Performance Indicators (KPIs);
Status of E-GP Introduction and Operationalization… • Government e-Marketplace (GeM) - 2016 • Common use Goods & Services; • More than 200,000 Vendors, & around 35,000 buyers on boarded; • More than 850,000 products with 3000+ active categories; • Orders with value of USD 3.68 billion till first week of April, 2019 • Procurement of more than USD 100 million is happening through this platform every month
Status of Public Procurement Professionalization and Capacity Building • One week residential programs on Public Procurement being held at National Institute of Financial Management (NIFM), Faridabad, Haryana; • Basic Course; • Advanced Courses on EPC contracts, Price adjustment Formula, Sustainable Procurement Practices etc. • Around forty programs are conducted annually • More than 6000 officers trained in last three years
Roadmap • e-learning in Public Procurement; • To be started, Arbitration program as another advance course in public procurement; • Manual for Procurement of Works • Codification of Goods & Services • On UNSPSC model through Institute for Supply Management (ISM)- India (led by Mr. K.K. Batra, ex-UNDP head of operations); • Online Payment Gateways in CPPP for collection and refund of EMD and Tender fee;
Sustainable Procurement • Sustainable Procurement Task Force (SPTF) formed at MoF • Members include MoEFCC, BIS, BEE, GeM,, MoR and UNEP with JS (DoE) as the Chairperson and Director (PPD) as Member Secretary; • The Task Force is assigned with the major role of • Preparation of a Sustainable Procurement Action Plan for the Country; • Recommending product categories where SPP can be implemented • UNEP has started out prioritisation study for products in this regard
Assessment of Procurement System: History • In 2003: World Bank conducted Country Procurement Assessment wherein 13 areas were recommended for improvement; • 80% of the recommendations have already been introduced ; • In 2017 World Bank came up with Benchmarking Public Procurement (BPP) Report that gave 180 economies (including India) a numerical score on six parameters; • No ranking was given in the report. However, based on the score, ranking of India globally was derived that came out to be 76; • The report did not take into account the reforms taken place in India in the form of GFR, 2017, Procurement Manuals, Make in India policy, GeM etc.; • The report has since been discontinued by World Bank
Methodology for Assessing Procurement Systems (MAPS) • MAPS is a common assessment tool, initially developed by OECD/ MDBs and recently modified to take into account technological advances like electronic procurement and other developments. • India is among the first country to be assessed through modified MAPS; • The assessment is being done by World Bank; • Six Central Government agencies and five states (Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh, Odisha, Assam and Bihar) shall be assessed; • Report expected in early 2020