NIC was invited by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) at the 5th e-Government Procurement Conference of the Asia Pacific Public Electronic Procurement Network held at ADB Headquarters, Manila, Philippines from 1st to 2nd October 2019. The focus of the conference was based on Emerging Electronic Government Procurement (e-GP) Technologies and Innovation, and Regional Trends and Country Systems Experiences.
Smt. Usha Saxena, Sr. Technical Director & HoD (eProcurement) represented NIC at the conference. She delivered a lecture on ‘Integrating Installations in a National System: The GePNIC Experience’ in which she underscored NIC’s experience on the widespread implementation of Government eProcurement as a single product across India. GePNIC is currently implemented across 28 States (Provinces) and as a Central Public Procurement portal in around 500 Central Government entities. This is one of the flagship projects of NIC, which facilitates processing of 1.5 million electronic tenders per year worth 20,000 USD approximately.
The participants from around 70 countries were very keen to discuss and learn from NIC’s success as well as the challenges faced in this area, specifically those countries that are trying to similarly integrate e-GP sub-systems.