Hon’ble Chief Minister Assam, Dr. Himanta Biswa Sarma, launched the State Public Procurement (SPP) Portal of Assam on 22nd Aug 2022. The event was attended by officials from World Bank, Government of Assam, NIC Assam and NIC Chennai (through video conferencing). SPP Portal is an integrated platform to access all tender-related information of Assam Government Departments, State Public Sector Enterprises and other institutions covered under the ambit of the Assam Public Procurement Act, 2017. It allows bidders and citizens to access any procurement-related information of the State of Assam and serves as a single source of truth for all Assam Government tenders. All tender-related information is freely accessible to the general public and credible information is made available on the public procurement of goods, works and services by the procuring entities. SPP Portal aggregates the following information: • Online Tenders published on https://assamtenders.gov.in (GePNIC Application), through automated web-service APIs • Online Tenders for Assam published on PMGSY (GePNIC Application), through automated web-service APIs • Tenders for Assam published on GeM, through automated web-service APIs • Manual Tenders below the threshold value of 25 Lakhs, will be published on the SPP Portal by the procuring entities The procuring entities (departmental users) have the facility to upload the Annual Procurement Plan, Manual Tenders and other related documents. The portal provides a Dashboard facility for the Departmental Users to display tender data, the primary intention being to provide information at-a- glance. It also provides a “Search” feature to the public to search for various kinds of tenders and sort them according to the criteria such as tender activity, tender value, and tender scope. The tenders can also be filtered according to - organisation, category, GePNIC and GeM Bids. A grievance module has also been provided on the portal, through which citizens may lodge grievances and receive resolution. Citizens can also provide feedback through a feedback module.