MPLUN intros new system

In a major step to bring in transparency in tendering process, the State
owned Madhya Pradesh Laghu Udyog Nigam (MPLUN) is all set to introduce the
system of e-procurement in purchases made by it. IT company Wipro is going to
introduce the e-tendering and e-auction sys-tem in the corporation.

Some rounds of negotiation have already been held bet-ween the officials of
the state government and their counter-parts in Wipro.

By introducing the system, LUN would take a lead in moving a step further to
embrace e-governance because the company has offered to introduce the system for
the entire tendering process of MP government. What is impor-tant is the fact
that while introducing the state-of-the-art system, no financial burden would be
imposed either on the state government or on the corporation.

The company has decided to introduce the system in MP on a no-profit no-loss
basis and is likely to collect the operating cost through the price of tender.
With the implemen-tation of the system the contractor need not visit the office
of the tenderer to buy and submit tenders, as tender purchasing, submission and
evaluation is online.

Ashish Upadhyay, MD, MPLUN said that the system eli-minates hassles of
traditional procurement process, saves time, money and offers better
competition. This brings in professionalism in purchase too, said Upadhyay.

"The manual system follo-wed so far has been an inor-dinately lengthy
one besides being cumbersome. With introduction of the etender-ing system we can
look forward to a much swifter and more efficient tendering system," he
added. Elabora-ting further, he said that the system of e-tendering would be
applied on all 146 res-erved items and also on other 400 items purchased by the
LUN.

Initially, the system will be applicable to contracts worth above Rs 25 lakh.