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Summary

IREPS increases overall Transparency, Global reach and time saving in entire life cycle of procurement.

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HOME  PROJECTS  PROCUREMENT & AUTOMATION  IREPS
E-Procurement System
Challenges
To get rid of old manual Procurement System of Indian Railways by necessary process changes.
To bring transparency in Tendering and Contracting life cycles.
Introducing cashless techniques in payments and refund processes.
To promote ease of doing business through online services and automation.
Indian Railways is one of the largest enterprises dealing with procurement life cycles. It has been a challenge to introduce
digitalization and automation in procurement activities.
Goals
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Digitalization of entire procurement life cycle of Indian Railways.
To promote paperless electronic working with no restriction of physical presence of bidders.
Increasing overall transparency, global reach and time savings in procurement processes.
To increase departmental efficiency through cost, time and effort reductions.
The overall objective has been to put in place standardised work processes leading to savings, process controls, reduction in
complaints, better monitoring, ease of use and easy access to information.
Our Solution
Tendering process has been 100% switched to electronic
mode with features like Tender publishing, Online bid
submission, various types of evaluation criteria, and
instant availability of tabulation after online tender opening.
It has option of Global Tender, Reverse Auction and
Machinery/Plant 
tenders. 
Requirement 
of 
"Complex
Railway Board tenders" have also been provided in e-
Tender module.
e-Tender
All depots of Indian Railways having offices spread across
India have been provided the e-auction services for sale of
scrap. The major features of this module include Lot
publishing, 
Online 
bidding, 
maintaining 
encrypted
e-Auction
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"Reserve Price", decryption of Reserve Price (RP) & auto
decision of bids, preparation and signing of bid sheet, Sale
Release Order, Invoice etc. Facility of Unique Lien System
to accept 10% EMD from bidders has also been provided
in the system
This module provides functionality of evaluation of
Technical Bids, TC and Non-TC cases, Technical Scrutiny,
generating 
Letter 
of 
Acceptance, 
Counter 
Offer,
Negotiation opening, Discharge of tenders, Re-tendering,
Pass Over facility, etc. All these functionalities have been
provided for Supply as well as Works tenders.
Online Tender decision
Through payment gateway facility of SBI, 100% online
payment has been implemented in IREPS. Three separate
integrations with SBI have been done, SBI Net banking,
SBI Lien System and SBI e-Pay (Aggregator Module).
Online Payments
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EMD refund can be initiated through the system for all the
tenders 
whether 
finalized 
online 
or 
manual/offline.
Proposal for refund is initiated by concerned officials and
Pay order is generated once it is approved in IREPS.
Online EMD refund
IREPS Application is GST compliant. GST has been
implemented for invoices of "Balance Sale Value" in e-
auction Module. All e-tendering forms have been compliant
to GST.
GST Compliance
IREPS Mobile App has also been launched in Sep-2018
by Minister of Railways. Facility to search & enquire about
tenders, auction and user manuals, public documents etc.
are also available in this App. Login facility has also been
provided in the App to vendors and Railway officers to
view the information and download the desired reports.
Mobile Application
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This is a user profile management module which manages
roles / access in the system for IREPS users of entire
Indian Railways departments and posts/designations,
units, division etc. Organization hierarchy has been
designed in such a way that IREPS platform can be
adopted by any other or

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