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India public procurement
India runs public procurement at a scale nobody else matches, and almost none of it is explained well. We cover the Government e-Marketplace, the CPPP portal for works and non-catalogue services, the MSE preference framework, and the practical mechanics of pricing, L1 and bid participation.
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The 25% rule: how MSE preference actually works on government tenders
Central ministries must buy a quarter of their goods and services from micro and small enterprises. Most MSEs never claim it. Here is the mechanism.
GeM seller registration: what it actually takes
The registration itself is free and takes under an hour. What delays most sellers is documentation mismatch — here is the sequence and where it breaks.
L1 is not a strategy: how pricing actually decides GeM outcomes
Lowest price wins most Indian public procurement — but the route to market decides how price is even compared. Here is what changes between bid, DP and L1 comparison.
Why most first bids fail, and it is almost never the price
Across procurement systems we study, documentation errors eliminate more first-time bidders than competitors do. The pattern repeats in every market.
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