Abstract
This year’s 71st Independence Day Speech of India’s visionary Prime Minister included an announcement implementing yet another innovative public policy instrument, one that electrified all stakeholders interested in public procurement reforms in India, in the shape of a much-awaited launch of the Government e-Marketplace (GeM) launched by the Directorate General of Supplies & Disposal (DGS&D)—as an online platform enabling simplified and streamlined buyer-seller interactions for public goods and services across the Country. As in many other states in India, this ambitious e-platform has also been adopted by the State Government of Rajasthan as a permissible medium for government purchasing for use by all procuring officials of the State. This short paper examines some of the peculiarities already existing under the legal framework for public procurement in Rajasthan; as also the additional complexities and challenges for the State’s public procurement officials that could get thrown up during the roll-out of this important, far-reaching initiative of the Central Government. Staying within the context of multiple, and sometimes competing, desiderata of public procurement, the paper then concludes with suggestions for the Government of Rajasthan for ensuring a more streamlined achievement of the expected end-objectives of this important procurement reform exercise.
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