E-Concurrence Module Launched on GeM for Ministry of Defence

New Delhi: The Government e-Marketplace (GeM) has developed an IT module for the Ministry of Defence, for the integration of competent financial authorities and Internal Financial Advisers (IFA) for online e-concurrence and approval of procurement proposals on the GeM portal.

The integration module was launched by Controller General of Defence Accounts (CGDA) Rajnish Kumar in the presence of Chief Executive Officer of Government e-Marketplace (GeM) Prashant Kumar Singh at Defence Accounts Department Headquarters in New Delhi on June 01, 2022.

The module has been developed by GeM over the course of the last year, utilising Business Process Re-engineering (BPR)-based procedural inputs provided by the Ministry of Defence, Defence Accounts Department Headquarters and the Headquarters of the various defence services and other MoD organisations.

Procurement by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) through the Government e-Market (GeM) portal had reached an all-time high of Rs 15,047.98 crore for the Financial Year 2021-22, which is more than 250 percent over the last financial year.

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