Briefing newspersons after participating in a workshop on ‘e-procurement for contractors and officers’ organised by the Centre for e-governance, Sridhar said the help desk equipped with technical staff, would be on the lines of BangaloreOne. “It will be put in place in a week or ten days,” he said.
He said that four states had already approached Karnataka for assistance in implementing such a system in their government departments.
In Karnataka 25 government organisations had already utilised the e-system when calling for contracts, Sridhar said. He said that contracts worth Rs 200 crore had been called for using the e-procurement method last year and it was expected to touch Rs 300 crore this year.
Home Department Additional Chief Secretary A K M Nayak called for amending the Karnataka Transparency in Public Procurement Act, 1999 to make e-procurement compulsory in the State.
Economic advisor to the Chief Minister Dr K V Raju said the government planned to use the e-system to call for tenders for the ambitious project of laying of roads for 10,000 kms.
Karnataka Contractors Association Vice-President R V Swamy urged the government to provide grant for carrying out the projects instead of giving only 30 per cent of the fund as being done now.
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