Para 5.1.4 — GOODS_MANUAL

5.1.4 Uploading of Tender Documents: Mandatory e-Publishing (Rule 159 of GFR 2017) 1. It is mandatory for all Ministries/Departments of the Central Government, their attached and subordinate offices, and autonomous/statutory bodies to publish their tender enquiries, corrigenda thereof and details of bid awards online on the GeM-Central Public Procurement Portal (CPPP) and also on their website. These instructions apply to all Tender Enquiries, Requests for Proposals, Requests for Expressions of Interest, Notice for pre-qualification/ Registration or any other notice inviting bids or proposals in any form, whether they are advertised, issued to a limited number of parties or a single party. These instructions would not apply to the purchase of goods without quotations or the Purchase of goods by the purchase committee. 2. Individual cases where confidentiality is required for reasons of national security would be exempted from the mandatory e-publishing requirement. The decisions to exempt any case on the said grounds should be approved by the Secretary of the Ministry/ Department with the concurrence of the concerned Financial Advisor. In the case of autonomous bodies and Statutory bodies’ approval of the head of the body with the concurrence of the head of the finance should be obtained in each such case. Statistical information on the number of cases in which exemption was granted and the value of the concerned contract should be intimated on a Quarterly basis to the Ministry of Finance, Department of Expenditure.