{"id":1015370,"date":"2026-06-18T10:00:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T04:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1015370"},"modified":"2026-06-18T10:08:46","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T04:38:46","slug":"no-foreign-bidders-on-gem-yet-govt-nudges-buyers-to-float-relevant-tenders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/18\/no-foreign-bidders-on-gem-yet-govt-nudges-buyers-to-float-relevant-tenders\/","title":{"rendered":"No foreign bidders on GeM yet; govt nudges buyers to float relevant tenders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Government e-Marketplace (GeM) has not received a single bid from a foreign supplier, months after introducing the Global Tender Enquiry (GTE) functionality and a multi-currency payment system on the portal, according to officials familiar with the matter. <\/p>\n<p> Officials said the key reason is that government departments and public sector undertakings (PSUs) have not floated relevant global tenders on the platform that would attract overseas participation. GeM has now started nudging buyers to issue such tenders through the portal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Government e-Marketplace (GeM) has not received a single bid from a foreign supplier, months after introducing the Global Tender Enquiry (GTE) functionality and a multi-currency payment system on the portal, according to officials familiar with the matter. Officials said the key reason is that government departments and public sector undertakings (PSUs) have not floated relevant global tenders on the platform that would attract overseas participation. GeM has now started nudging buyers to issue such tenders through the portal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1015370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1015370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1015406,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015370\/revisions\/1015406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1015370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1015370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1015370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}