* Indian Railways E-Procurement System (IREPS)*

The Union Ministry of Railways has presented Indian Railways E-Procurement System (IREPS), an online bill following framework for merchants and contractual workers.

It means to improve straightforwardness in the preparing and settlement of bills by expanding utilization of data innovation.

IREPS is an official site of IR for the acquisition of Materials. Railways clients can transfer their delicate archives and can open tenders online. Enlisted Vendors can get to the delicate records through this webpage and present their offers online properly scrambled at customer machine itself. Approved Vendors can see organizations on the web. They have been given the office to SMS alarms/email cautions for critical occasions. Merchant Users can pay the Tender Document Cost (TDC) and Earnest Money Deposit (EMD) by Credit Cards, Debit Cards, and Net Banking through SBIePay. SBIePay is the installment portal which is incorporated with the IREPS for online installments.

The venture disposes of abnormalities, acts of neglect, lessening in the obtainment process' in the current methodology. HCL Infosystems executed eProcurement Framework on Indian Railways covering 16 Zonal Railways and 6 creation units along with CRlS, www.ireps.gov.in was propelled in Aug. 2008. The contributions stack incorporates e-Requisition, e-Tendering, e-Auction, e-Contract Management,  e-Shipment Planning, and Monitoring System, e-Receipt and Issuance, e-Payments and so forth. It gives a secure and straightforward stage to production of tenders by a purchaser and online offering by sellers. The site gives a protected stage to clients for online exchanges for obtainment. Railroad clients can transfer their delicate records and can open tenders on the web. Sellers can get to the delicate records through this webpage and present their offers online appropriately scrambled at their end. IREPS site is being utilized broadly for obtainment of materials by every one of the 16  zonal Railways workplaces and 6 generation units. In excess of 80,000 tenders have been transferred by different workplaces till date. By and by in excess of 10,000 tenders every month is being transferred by Railways. Advantages watched are diminished acquirement time cycle and proficiency, lessening in organization time from 23 days to prompt with a delicate opening, lessened time for dispatch of delicate archives, specialized investigation and so on by half. 

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