Transition Strategy GeM 2.0 to GeM 3.0
Dear all,
Government e Marketplace (GeM), has been envisaged by Government of India as the National Procurement Portal of India. GeM strives to keep pace with ever-evolving technological challenges and stake holder aspirations and in line with this endeavor, GeM is coming with a scaled up third version. GeM 3.0 will provide a more robust and flexible software platform and will be a major step in propelling GeM to become a truly world class e-marketplace. On the coming 26th Jan, 2018 the upgraded version of GeM 3.0 would be launched.
Some of the key enhancements and increased functionalities proposed in GeM 3.0 are as follows:
1. Powerful search engine
2. Price comparison using third party sites – multisource and real time
3. E-EMD (e-EMD) and e-Performance bank guarantee (e-PBG)
4. Performance based user rating
5. Online vendor assessment (optional)
6. Market based - bunching of products and services
7. Multi-cart functionality
8. More services with bid and RA facil
As part of the preparatory work to move to GeM 3.0, a transition framework has been defined to ease the migration process for all stakeholders involved. A detailed plan is put in place, for seamless transition from GeM 2.0 to GeM 3.0, Zero data loss, Minimize downtime and disruption.
To have a smooth transition, some of the present functionalities available in GeM will be temporarily halted for a while as listed below.
a. New features will be added on GeM 2.0 up to 17-Nov-2017.
b. New categories will be added on GeM 2.0 up to 30-Nov-2017 and will resume on GeM 3.0 post 26 Jan, 2018
c. New bids on GeM 2.0 will be accepted up to 01-Jan-2018 and will resume on GeM 3.0 post 26 Jan, 2018
d. Listing of new products will be added on GeM 2.0 up to 31-Dec-2017 and will resume on GeM 3.0 post 26 Jan, 2018
e. Buyer/seller registration will be done on GeM 2.0 up to 31-Dec-2017 and will resume on GeM 3.0 post 26 Jan, 2018
All the stake holders are requested to note above timeline and plan the procurement/product updation/bidding accordingly. The detailed transition document is available in the Notification section of buyers and sellers.