Electronization of Government Procurement System - Tendering via Internet

In order to make the government procurement efficient, transparent, nondiscriminating, and accountable, the electronic government procurement system is the solution. Accordingly, the Article 33 of Government Procurement Law (GPL) provides that the suppliers may use electronic devices to send the tender. This paper demonstrates how the electronic government procurement system works and how it can reengineer the internal procurement processes of government entities and then benefit both government entities and vendors. The system features to be explored in this paper include posting/receiving bids on Internet, vendor registration, certificate authorization, contract development tools, bid/Request For Proposal (RFP) development, on-line bidding, and on-line payment. All of these features can be easily integrated with most existing information infrastructures.