<p class="title">To bring transparency in awarding contracts for parks space, catering and parcel-leasing at railway stations, the national transporter has decided to adopt the e-tendering system by doing away with paper-based tendering methods.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Contractors, who are bidding for ATMs and advertisements in the station premises also have to go for online system, said a senior official in the railways said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">At present, paper-based traditional tendering methods are being followed in most of the divisions. In in the current system, there was scope for cartel by a select group of people to bag parking, catering and other contracts, said the official.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Under the Digital India programme, the national transporter has decided to put every tendering process in the online system in all 17 zones and 70 divisions, he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Earlier the Railways has conducted a pilot project on e-tendering in Delhi Division of Northern Railways in allotting parking lots and food stalls and it was found successful, said the official. </p>.<p class="bodytext">The Railways has entrusted its software arm Centre for Railway Information Systems (CRIS), to provide backup support for ensuring the e-tendering exercise should be hassle-free.</p>.<p class="bodytext">All e-tenders documents will be uploaded on the Indian Railways E-Procurement System (IREPS) and interested parties have to submit their offers through online on the portal.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Submission of manual offering totally discontinued once the online system came into existence, said the official. Those who wanted to participate in IERPS have to register themselves free of cost.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The Railway Board had written to all the zones and divisions to switch to the online system of tendering at the earliest. </p>.<p class="bodytext">The railways earlier made it mandatory that all supplies to its workshop and manufacturing units to procure supplies from vendors through online bidding only.</p>
<p class="title">To bring transparency in awarding contracts for parks space, catering and parcel-leasing at railway stations, the national transporter has decided to adopt the e-tendering system by doing away with paper-based tendering methods.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Contractors, who are bidding for ATMs and advertisements in the station premises also have to go for online system, said a senior official in the railways said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">At present, paper-based traditional tendering methods are being followed in most of the divisions. In in the current system, there was scope for cartel by a select group of people to bag parking, catering and other contracts, said the official.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Under the Digital India programme, the national transporter has decided to put every tendering process in the online system in all 17 zones and 70 divisions, he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Earlier the Railways has conducted a pilot project on e-tendering in Delhi Division of Northern Railways in allotting parking lots and food stalls and it was found successful, said the official. </p>.<p class="bodytext">The Railways has entrusted its software arm Centre for Railway Information Systems (CRIS), to provide backup support for ensuring the e-tendering exercise should be hassle-free.</p>.<p class="bodytext">All e-tenders documents will be uploaded on the Indian Railways E-Procurement System (IREPS) and interested parties have to submit their offers through online on the portal.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Submission of manual offering totally discontinued once the online system came into existence, said the official. Those who wanted to participate in IERPS have to register themselves free of cost.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The Railway Board had written to all the zones and divisions to switch to the online system of tendering at the earliest. </p>.<p class="bodytext">The railways earlier made it mandatory that all supplies to its workshop and manufacturing units to procure supplies from vendors through online bidding only.</p>