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More than just a tender portal and provides comprehensive solutions powered by AI and expert team to help you identify and secure bids with convenience and agility.
What is L1?

L1 means Lowest One. GeM was built to make public procurement more transparent and efficient. Any order through Bid/RA or L1 purchase can only be placed with the seller who has quoted Lowest Rate except any seller having preference.
Prior to preparing L1 comparisons, you must have these details.

Find the required filter to get our product L1 and share that comparison filter with Buyer so that we can receive the order.

  • Category/Product
  • Quantity
  • Unit Rate
  • Buyer Location
about L1

Streamlining the L1 Process with Expertise

More than just a tender portal and provides comprehensive solutions powered by AI and expert team to help you identify and secure bids with convenience and agility.

Our platform provides comprehensive and up-to-date information about Government e-Marketplace (GeM) L1.

Buyers have two ways to procure goods and services from the Government e-Marketplace (GeM) Portal.

One is through Bid/RA

Direct Purchase

The buyer can directly purchase goods or services up to Rs 50000. However, for orders valued between Rs 50000 and Rs 1000000, the buyer must compare three different OEMs or service providers.

After they enter all of their requirements, such as product specifications, seller ratings, delivery period, etc, the system will recommend the L1 product that matches all the requirements. Only the L1 system recommendation can be added to the cart by the buyer.

Basic Steps to access the right filter to get your product as L1 on GeM.

L1 comparison on GeM for Direct Purchase

  • Direct Order

    When the purchase amount is ₹ 50,000

  • Comperative Order

    When the purchase amount is ₹ 50,000 to 10 Lakh

  • Tender Publishing

    When the purchase amount is above ₹ 10 Lakh

Want to learn more about L1 on GeM?

Key Features for Tender

FAQs

This functionality allows online negotiation with the L1 seller only.

The buyer will be able to initiate Negotiation during the Financial Evaluation stage

A maximum of 5 attempts will be allowed to buyer and the negotiation window will remain open for 72 hours for each attempt.

Price history including the initial price quoted by the seller, 1st round negotiated price, 2nd round, 3rd, 4th, 5th etc will be available

It will be applicable for Bids as well as RA’s including schedule-wise evaluation.

A notification will be sent to the L1 seller when the buyer initiates a negotiation request.

Launch of Purchase Requisition for enhancement of L1 Procurement Process

Buyers and Sellers are hereby notified that, GeM will be introducing Purchase Requisition, an enhanced L1 procurement facility, for enabling Buyer(s) to source their procurement needs between Rs 50,000 to Rs 10, 00,000.

As part of this change, Buyer(s) will be able to create a Purchase Requisition using the lowest priced product and request further reduction of prices offered by the Sellers. This may enable the Buyer to ensure that the procurement is done at a further reduced price thereby resulting in further savings for the Government.

Sellers of such product will also have an opportunity to offer competitive price within a period of 2 calendar days from the time such Purchase Requisition is published by the Buyer, thereby increasing their chances of winning the order and enhancing their business with the Government.

This facility will be enabled for selected categories initially and all categories subsequently.

Frequently Asked Questions(FAQs)

stands for Government eMarketplace, where buyers are all government departments.

​ L1 means Lowest One. GeM was built to make public procurement more transparent and efficient. Any order through Bid/RA or L1 purchase can only be placed with the seller who has quoted Lowest Rate except any seller having preference

L1 purchase enables direct purchase for order values between INR 50,000 to INR 10 lakhs by way of comparison between at least three different OEMs or Service Providers on GeM, who meet the buyers requisite quality, quantity, specifications and delivery period.

The bidder with lowest commercial bid against the group shall be declared as the successful bidder for that particular group and will be called as L1 bidder.
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