Where government tenders in India are published

On the Central Public Procurement Portal (eprocure.gov.in) for tenders from central ministries, departments and PSUs, and on the Government e-Marketplace (gem.gov.in) for goods and services bought through GeM. Some organisations publish on their own eProcurement instance or only through CPPP's ePublishing module, and Indian Railways uses IREPS.

CPPP is not one list. It aggregates the central GePNIC instances, carries state instances that run on GePNIC, and has a separate ePublishing module for organisations that do not use eProcurement at all. The CPPP Annual Report for 2021-22 puts GePNIC across 31 States and Union Territories and 679 central government organisations.

The practical consequence is that "check CPPP" means checking several listings, and "check GeM" means checking GeM itself rather than the GeM section inside CPPP.

CPPP alone published 14,24,276 tenders in FY2021-22, worth Rs 21.28 lakh crore, which is about 1.19 lakh a month. That figure is CPPP only. It does not include GeM bids, which run on a separate system, or portals outside CPPP.

For a sense of GeM's scale on its own: we counted 48,069 ongoing GeM bids on 22 August 2026. Ongoing is a stock, not a monthly flow, so the two numbers do not add up to anything meaningful.

Be careful with the 70.30 lakh tenders figure quoted in the same annual report. That is procurement since CPPP began, across the whole country, not one year.

No. CPPP carries a mirror of GeM, but on 22 August 2026 GeM itself listed 48,069 ongoing bids against 35,469 in the CPPP mirror, 26% fewer. If you watch GeM through CPPP you are watching about three quarters of it.

The titles are the second problem. GeM direct is the only one of the central streams we read with reliable titles, and matching against what a firm builds depends on reading the title properly.

Usually because it was never on the listing you searched. It may be on a state portal outside GePNIC, on a municipal portal, on IREPS, on GeM only, or on CPPP's ePublishing module, a separate part of the portal that many bidders never open.

ePublishing is the one that surprises people. When we counted, 167 organisations published through it, 141 of them appeared on no other CPPP organisation list, and those 141 held 1,252 live tenders between them.

If you have the Tender ID, searching CPPP by that ID is the reliable way to confirm whether it is there at all. A title search misses on spelling.

On CPPP the median gap between publication and closing is 13 days in our data, and only about 1% of tenders close within three days of appearing. Missing a tender is rarely about hours. It is about a week in which nobody looked.

Minimum bid submission periods are set by the procurement rules and the tendering organisation, and a corrigendum can extend a closing date after publication. Always read the closing date from the latest corrigendum, not from the first listing you saw.

A corrigendum is an official amendment the tendering organisation publishes after the tender notice: a changed closing date, a revised quantity, a corrected specification or an added document. It forms part of the tender, and a bid prepared against the original notice alone can be non-compliant.

Corrigenda are the reason a closing date you noted a fortnight ago may be wrong today. Before you price anything, check the tender for corrigenda on the portal, because the document you downloaded first may already be out of date.

No, for both portals we read. CPPP's active tender listings and GeM's list of bids can be browsed without logging in. You need to register, and on CPPP hold a digital signature certificate, to submit a bid.

ScanX reads only what is public without a login. It never signs in to a portal on anyone's behalf.

Many are not. In a study of 1,000 awarded state e-tenders from 2018-19, 52% of Tamil Nadu water tenders and 40% of Kerala road tenders drew exactly one bid, and most state and sector pairs averaged two to four bidders.

That is the opposite of the picture most contractors carry, of every tender drawing a crowd. For a large share of packages the constraint on winning is not price, it is having seen the tender in time to bid at all.