National Aluminium Company Ltd., a Maharatna Company of Government of India, is the largest integrated aluminium complex of Asia, which specializes in bauxite mining, alumina refining, aluminium smelting and casting. NALCO has its mines and refinery complex at Damanjodi, smelter and captive power plant at Angul, port facility at Visakhapatnam & corporate office at Bhubaneswar. After initial floating of few tenders in the Central Public Procurement Portal (CPP) regarding ocean freight, NALCO expressed its willingness to use the CPP to float all the service tenders. A two day workshop in this regard was organized at Corporate Office of NALCO, Bhubaneswar. Participants were demonstrated the full flow of the e-procurement application using demo portal by NIC team comprising of Shri Tapan Prakash Ray, TD & Shri Nihar Ranjan Biswal, PSA. On second day, participants were exposed to hands on training using the demo portal, where they created and published some mock tenders and completed bidding sessions, followed by bid opening, evaluation and AOC. In the second half of day 2, few selected bidders were demonstrated the online portal registration and bid submission process. All the sessions registered high participation. Shri Sudipta Kishore Dash, Executive Director P & T, NALCO addressed participants of the workshop and urged them to take e-procurement forward for a transparent and efficient procurement process. Shri Debadatta Pattnaik, AGM (Systems), NALCO coordinated the workshop.