Para 4.6.4 — NONCONSULT_MANUAL

4.6.4. Procurement through Centralized Agencies or other Organizations Departments/ Organisations that have not built up their own infrastructure for purchase may engage procurement agents (for individual procurement or as outsourcing of service) with the approval of its Secretary. Many canalised agencies authorised by the Government and some CPSEs 45 do provide such end-to-end procurement services, i.e., framing procurement

Chapter 4: Bidding Design for Non-Consultancy Services documents, bidding process, evaluation, and contract management. Procurements by such agencies would have to conform to these Procurement Guidelines. In such cases, a contract can be placed on them for procurement services, under mutually agreed terms. Guidelines for procurement through such agencies are detailed in Chapter 4 of the Manual for Procurement of Goods, 2024, which may be referred to. For the sake of brevity, these are not repeated here.

Chapter 5: Bid Invitation Process 5.1. Preparation and Uploading/ Floating of Tender Documents 5.1.1. Model Tender Documents

Department of Expenditure (DoE), Ministry of Finance, Government of India has issued Model Tender Documents for Procurement of Goods. 46 (October 2021), Procurement of NonConsultancy Services47 (October 2021) and Procurement of Consultancy Services48 (April 2023). Procuring Entities are urged to customise relevant MTD to prepare tender documents for their procurements. Guidance notes annexed to the MTDs detail the process of customisation of MTD for an Organisation and each procurement.