Parliament Question: Procurement through e-Marketplace

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 3935 ANSWERED ON 17/03/2026 PROCUREMENT THROUGH e-MARKETPLACE

3935. SHRI PRADEEP KUMAR SINGH:

SHRI BHOJRAJ NAG:

SHRI BALABHADRA MAJHI:

SHRI DAMODAR AGRAWAL:

SHRI VIJAY KUMAR DUBEY:

SHRI TEJASVI SURYA:

SMT. KRITI DEVI DEBBARMAN:

SHRI P P CHAUDHARY:

SHRI ANUP SANJAY DHOTRE:

SHRI MANISH JAISWAL: ` Will the Minister of COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY (वाणिज्य एवं उद्योग मंत्री) be

pleased to state:

(a) the details of the total value of procurement made through the Government e- Marketplace (GeM) since its inception, State and Ministry-wise including Odisha and Nabarangpur Lok Sabha Constituency and Pali Lok Sabha Constituency;

(b) the percentage of total Government procurement presently being carried out through GeM, State-wise;

(c) whether any roadmap has been formulated for its full integration, if so, the details thereof;

(d) whether the removal of Caution Money has led to a measurable increase in the registration of new sellers and if so, the details thereof, State-wise;

(e) the details of procurement made by Panchayats and Cooperative Institutions through GeM and the steps taken to enhance its usage at the grassroots level, State-wise particularly in Odisha and the Nabarangpur Lok Sabha Constituency and Pali Lok Sabha Constituency; and

(f) the safeguards put in place to prevent cartelization, bid manipulation, or concentration of contracts among limited vendors? ANSWER वाणिज्य एवं उद्योग मंत्रालय में राज्यमंत्री (श्री णिणिन प्रसाद) THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY (SHRI JITIN PRASADA)

(a) Since its inception, the cumulative value of procurement made through GeM is ₹17,83,360 crore (as on 8th March 2026). The Ministry-wise and State-wise details of 1procurement made through GeM are placed at Annexure-I and Annexure-II respectively. The value of procurement made by State of Odisha through GeM is ₹ 9,218 crore. The procurement details of Nabarangpur and Pali districts are placed

below:- State District Total Order value(INR in lakhs) ORISSA NABARANGAPUR 6,065.29 RAJASTHAN PALI 1,132.94

(b) The State wise data on percentage of total Government procurement is not available.

(c) Following are various initiatives for enhancing GeM adoption by states for full

integration: i. MoUs signed with all States and UTs to promote adoption of GeM ii. Several States including Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, Assam, Manipur, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Delhi have issued comprehensive guidelines for procurement through GeM.

iii. Regular training programmes, workshops, boot camps and multilingual e- learning modules have been created for capacity building of buyers and sellers. iv. MoUs signed with key seller associations to facilitate onboarding of sellers, catalogue uploading and training of their members.

(d) Requirement of Caution Money was removed from GeM on 30th July, 2025 to promote ease of doing business on GeM. Caution Money has been refunded to more than 22,600 sellers who had previously submitted the Caution Money. In addition 1.15 lakh profile completed sellers who have registered after 30th July, 2025 were not required to submit any Caution Money.

(e) The State-wise procurement made by Panchayats and Cooperatives are placed at Annexure III and Annexure IV respectively. As per records available with GeM, no procurement has been made by Panchayats and cooperatives in the districts of Nabarangpur (Odisha) and Pali (Rajasthan).

The following steps have been taken to enhance usage of GeM at grassroots level: i. Integration of GeM with the e-GramSwaraj portal to facilitate procurement by Panchayati Raj Institutions. ii. Capacity building through training programmes, workshops, boot camps and multilingual e-learning modules created for buyers and sellers, including Panchayats.

iii. Multilingual helpdesk and support ecosystem for resolving procurement and operational issues on the platform. iv. Initiatives to strengthen the seller ecosystem, including onboarding of MSEs, women-led enterprises, SC/ST entrepreneurs and SHGs .

v. Special drives for onboarding cooperatives in coordination with the Ministry of Cooperation and NCUI.

(f) GeM has following mechanisms in place to prevent cartelization, bid manipulation, or concentration of contracts among limited vendors: i. GeM provides a feature of "Bid Representation" window wherein buyers are mandatorily required to examine and respond to all representations submitted 2by prospective bidders prior to bid opening. The system does not permit opening of bids unless such representations are addressed.

ii. GeM has enabled a feature of "Challenge Rejection Window" wherein a bidder can represent against the disqualification from the bidding process, and a buyer is mandatorily required to provide response to such representation before proceeding for financial evaluation.

iii. The IP addresses of participating bidders are displayed to the Buyer, to examine potential collusion if any before proceeding, and wherever warranted, disqualify bidders. iv. GeM has deployed advanced analytics tools to detect procurement anomalies such as order splitting, suspicious bidding, abnormal pricing, and potential collusion, with flagged cases reflected on primary buyer's dashboards for action.

v. Anti-competitive behaviour or cartel formation is classified as a Severe/Grave deviation under GeM’s Incident Management framework, with proven cases attracting suspension of up to 365 days ***** 3ANNEXURE-I ANNEXURE REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PART (a) OF THE LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 3935 FOR ANSWER ON 17.03.2026.

S.No. Ministry Order Value (INR in cr) 1 Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare 5,623.49 2 Ministry of AYUSH 1,104.17 3 Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers 10,251.84 4 Ministry of Civil Aviation 5,826.02 5 Ministry of Coal 411,963.08 6 Ministry of Commerce and Industry 1,990.21 7 Ministry of Communications 11,719.54 Ministry of Consumer Affairs Food and Public 8 Distribution 13,187.76 9 Ministry of Cooperation 89.97 10 Ministry of Corporate Affairs 519.94 11 Ministry of Culture 1,801.04 12 Ministry of Defence 257,475.32 13 Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region 129.17 14 Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation 113.17 15 Ministry of Earth Sciences 1,439.02 16 Ministry of Education 21,590.84 17 Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology 19,114.83 18 Ministry of Environment Forest and Climate Change 912.57 19 Ministry of External Affairs 736.05 20 Ministry of Finance 70,727.45 21 Ministry of Fisheries Animal Husbandry Dairying 667.67 22 Ministry of Food Processing Industries 137.14 23 Ministry of Health and Family Welfare 31,755.77 24 Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises 41,108.24 25 Ministry of Home Affairs 28,722.47 26 Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs (MoHUA) 2,987.08 27 Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation 56.83 28 Ministry of Human Resource Development 3.62 29 Ministry of Information and Broadcasting 2,346.74 30 Ministry of Jal Shakti 393.32 31 Ministry of Labour and Employment 6,257.83 32 Ministry of Law and Justice 241.18 33 Ministry of Micro Small and Medium Enterprises 3,037.80 34 Ministry of Mines 23,190.82 35 Ministry of Minority Affairs 100.92 36 Ministry of New and Renewable Energy 364.25 37 Ministry of Panchayati Raj 85.10 38 Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs 24.41 39 Ministry of Personnel Public Grievances and Pensions 708.00 40 Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas 171,467.89 41 Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways 12,134.22 42 Ministry of Power 146,443.42 443 Ministry of Railways 45,202.01 44 Ministry of Road Transports and highways 774.55 45 Ministry of Rural Development 291.24 46 Ministry of Science and Technology 5,376.14 47 Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship 552.17 48 Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment 1,792.58 49 Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation 2,033.59 50 Ministry of Steel 67,030.93 51 Ministry of Textiles 976.27 52 Ministry of Tourism 446.61 53 Ministry of Tribal Affairs 367.99 54 Ministry of Urban Development 1,089.51 Ministry of Water Resources River Development and 55 Ganga Rejuvenation 1,650.46 56 Ministry of Women and Child Development 305.25 57 Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports 1,285.96 Grand Total 1,437,725.51 5ANNEXURE-II ANNEXURE REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PART (a) OF THE LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 3935 FOR ANSWER ON 17.03.2026.

S.No State/UT Total Order Value (INR in lakhs) 1 ANDAMAN AND NICOBAR ISLANDS 134,245.87 2 ANDHRA PRADESH 288,414.74 3 ARUNACHAL PRADESH 41,158.54 4 ASSAM 1,015,962.10 5 BIHAR 1,334,926.87 6 CHANDIGARH 504,486.07 7 CHHATTISGARH 777,797.15 DADRA AND NAGAR HAVELI & DAMAN AND 8 DIU 54,661.13 9 DELHI 1,580,197.53 10 GOA 29,750.09 11 GUJARAT 4,752,131.91 12 HARYANA 361,354.41 13 HIMACHAL PRADESH 144,203.73 14 JAMMU AND KASHMIR 1,129,586.57 15 JHARKHAND 828,571.56 16 KARNATAKA 586,028.36 17 KERALA 332,480.97 18 LADAKH 61,085.11 19 LAKSHADWEEP 7,979.89 20 MADHYA PRADESH 1,382,878.50 21 MAHARASHTRA 2,803,075.31 22 MANIPUR 61,352.84 23 MEGHALAYA 32,465.82 24 MIZORAM 27,969.94 25 NAGALAND 34,425.97 26 ORISSA 921,843.80 27 PUDUCHERRY 80,390.67 28 PUNJAB 484,935.72 29 RAJASTHAN 350,364.36 30 SIKKIM 15,875.84 31 TAMIL NADU 489,655.72 32 TELANGANA 253,148.03 33 TRIPURA 124,807.43 34 UTTAR PRADESH 8,688,326.65 35 UTTARAKHAND 405,097.32 36 WEST BENGAL 360,422.67 Grand Total 30,482,059.22 6ANNEXURE III ANNEXURE REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PART (e) OF THE LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 3935 FOR ANSWER ON 17.03.2026.

S.no Panchayat of State Order Value (INR in lakhs) 1 MAHARASHTRA 93,162.14 2 BIHAR 27,056.20 3 HARYANA 11,184.04 4 CHHATTISGARH 7,106.78 5 MADHYA PRADESH 4,763.86 6 KARNATAKA 1,470.69 7 WEST BENGAL 1,212.11 8 UTTARAKHAND 984.53 9 JHARKHAND 760.99 10 TAMIL NADU 677.19 11 UTTAR PRADESH 389.17 12 GUJARAT 340.40 13 ORISSA 222.52 14 RAJASTHAN 135.63 15 HIMACHAL PRADESH 110.28 16 TRIPURA 52.21 17 ANDHRA PRADESH 18.95 18 KERALA 10.96 19 ASSAM 3.53 20 PUNJAB 2.15 21 GOA 0.37 22 TELANGANA 0.12 Grand Total 149664.83 7ANNEXURE IV ANNEXURE REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PART (e) OF THE LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 3935 FOR ANSWER ON 17.03.2026.

S.No. Cooperative of State Order Value (INR in lakhs) 1 ANDAMAN AND NICOBAR ISLANDS 82.86 2 ASSAM 2.22 3 BIHAR 5,117.58 4 CHANDIGARH 263.21 5 CHHATTISGARH 1,410.84 6 DELHI 1,151.92 7 GUJARAT 661.45 8 HARYANA 394.88 9 HIMACHAL PRADESH 94.48 10 JHARKHAND 915.28 11 KARNATAKA 0.01 12 KERALA 143.79 13 MADHYA PRADESH 785.81 14 MAHARASHTRA 174.11 15 ORISSA 108.06 16 PUNJAB 2,113.18 17 RAJASTHAN 320.08 18 TAMIL NADU 147.57 19 TELANGANA 0.81 20 TRIPURA 144.76 21 UTTAR PRADESH 21,706.84 22 UTTARAKHAND 852.85 23 WEST BENGAL 4,244.65 24 Multi state cooperatives 37,431.35 Total 78,268.58 ***** 8