With the objective of supervision of full roll out of e-procurement in the four Engineering Departments of the State, Government have constituted the "Sate Procurement Cell" under the administrative control of Works Department with EIC (Civil), Orissa as the Chief Procurement Officer vide Works Department O.M No.8904 dt 06.05.2008. This wing is headed by Chief Engineer cum Chief Manager (Tech) of the State Procurement Cell, Govt. of Orissa.

This wing consists of Two Senior Managers, One Manager(Admin), Three Deputy Managers, One Sr. Consultant (IT), One Consultant (Operation & Management), Two Jr. Programmer, One Sr. Office Asst., Two Help Desk Operators and Two Data Entry Operators.

The major activities of the wing are as follows:

Training:

• Training to Departments/PSUs Officers
• Training to Bidders
• Training Programme at Zonal Level
• Training programme for Cyber Cafes
• Hands-on practice to the Participants

Software Testing:

• Testing of new/upgraded Module in Test Site (http://testtenders.ori.nic.in).
• Testing of Live Site (http:// tendersorissa.gov.in).
• Feedback to NIC

Observation of published Tenders:

• Observation Letter to organisations on Published Tender
• Technical Assistance to organisations if any opportunity for improvement

Help Desk:

• Telephonic Support by Toll Free Number (1800-3456765)
• DSC Facilitation

Single Window:

• All Departments/PSUs can clarify their queries
• Submit their suggestions for improvement

Software Development:

• Feed Back to NIC
• Feed Back collected from Departments/PSUs