The second National Workshop on Central Public Procurement Portal (CPPP) (https://eprocure.gov.in) was organised jointly by the Procurement Policy Division, Department of Expenditure (DoE), Ministry of Finance and the eProcurement Division, National Informatics Centre (NIC) at Stein Hall, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi on 21st January 2019. The workshop was inaugurated by Shri Girish Chandra Murmu, OSD Expenditure cum Secretary Designate, DoE, in the presence of Shri Ajay Sawhney, IAS, Secretary, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Shri Sanjay Prasad, JS, PFC II, Ministry of Finance, Dr. Neeta Verma, Director General, NIC and Shri Nagesh Shastri, DDG & HoG, eProcurement, NIC. Enthusiastically attended by over 450 delegates from various Central/ State Government organisations/ departments and Public Sector Undertakings across the country, the workshop aimed to provide wide publicity to use CPPP, discuss the issues faced by procuring entities, and develop possible strategies as the way forward. CPPP has been established by NIC as per the directions of DoE for providing single point access to information on public procurement. As part of this setup, central procuring entities are facilitated with e-Publishing/ e-Procurement/ e-Auction and XML data transfer module by NIC. The use of CPPP has been mandated in GFR 2017.
Shri Ajay Sawhney delivered the keynote address on the occasion. Talks by eminent users across Central Government, State Governments and Central Public Sector entities and Panel Discussion were highlights of the day.
During the workshop, CPP Portal 2.0 with enhanced features was launched and Annual Report 2017-2018 on CPPP was also released. The best performing Central/ State & PSU procuring entities were presented with awards in different categories.