Airports Authority of India (AAI) has recently been awarded the ‘Best Performer’ among the Central Public Sector Units based on electronic tendering carried out in the year April 2017-March, 2018 through the Central Public Procurement Portal of NIC, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY).
I. N. Murthy, Member (Operations), AAI received the Best Performance Award from Secretary, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Government of India, on the occasion of 2nd National Workshop on Central Public Procurement Portal organised by NIC.
AAI is committed towards contributing GOI’s vision to transform India into a digitally empowered society and make government procurement simplified, transparent and result-oriented. AAI has published 5,304 number of tenders on CPP Portal during the year 2017-18 and the total value of tenders was Rs 17,017.5 crore.
CPP Portal provides a single point access to all the tendering information on various procurements made across all central government organizations, State governments and PSUs in the country. More than 200 organisations are using CPP Portal and on an average of 7 lakh tenders are published annually.
The workshop was inaugurated jointly by Secretary, MeitY and Secretary, Department of Expenditure in the presence of senior officers of NIC. During the inaugural speech, Secretary, MeitY presented the overview of the CPP Portal and invited feedback from all the participating stakeholders for the improvement of CPP Portal.