CPPP is the portal most contractors think they know, and it is several listings wearing one name. These are the questions that come up once you start bidding on it.
9 questions. Checked against their sources on 23 September 2026.
A Class 3 digital signature certificate for signing. CPPP's own bid submission guide asks for a valid Class III signing certificate. Bidders on CPPP do not need a separate encryption certificate: bids are encrypted with the bid openers' certificates.
Some state portals built on the same NIC system still ask bidders for both signing and encryption certificates, so check the portal you are bidding on.
Certifying authorities no longer issue Class 2 individual signing certificates on their own. Current CCA guidelines allow only Class 3 certificates, which can also carry the Class 2 identifier, and CPPP bidding asks for Class 3.
The Tender ID is generated by the eProcurement system and is unique, for example 2026_DARE_924349_1. The tender reference number is written by the department, for example 162/NIT/EE-KOL-III/CPWD/2026-2027, and need not be unique across organisations. Search by the Tender ID.
Tenders fed to CPPP from portals outside NIC's system can carry other formats, such as a plain number for CPWD. CPPP's advanced search has separate Tender ID and Tender Reference Number fields, and its keyword search matches both.
Because CPPP tender detail links only work inside the browser session that created them. We tested supplying every part of the encoded address by hand, including a fresh timestamp, and it still failed. Share the Tender ID instead.
GFR 2017 Rule 161(vi) sets it at ordinarily three weeks from publication of the tender notice or availability of the bidding documents, whichever is later. Where bids from abroad are contemplated, it is four weeks for domestic and foreign bidders alike.
The rule says ordinarily, and plenty of tenders close sooner: in our CPPP data the median gap between publication and closing is 13 days. Read the closing date from the tender and its latest corrigendum rather than assuming three weeks.
Under GFR 2017 Rule 163, the technical bid and the financial bid are submitted separately. Technical bids are opened and evaluated first, and financial bids are opened only for bidders whose technical bids are acceptable.
For goods, since 10 July 2024, advertised tender enquiry applies from Rs 50 lakh and limited tender enquiry up to Rs 50 lakh, doubled from Rs 25 lakh. Non-consulting services can use limited tenders up to Rs 50 lakh, up from Rs 10 lakh. Works follow separate GFR limits.
ePublishing is the CPPP module for organisations that publish tenders without running them through eProcurement. When we counted, 167 organisations used it, 141 of them appeared on no other CPPP organisation list, and those 141 held 1,252 live tenders.
Generally not. EMD sits in the tender details, and CPPP's detail pages ask for an image code before they show anything. CPWD's own eTender portal is the exception among the streams we read: it publishes EMD in the listing itself.
ScanX reads the CPPP aggregator, the state tenders on GePNIC and the ePublishing module every hour, and gives every CPPP row its Tender ID because a CPPP link would not open for you.