TCIL – An e-Procurement/ e-Auction Service Provider in India

TCIL – An e-Procurement/ e-Auction Service Provider in India

Telecommunication Consultants India Limited (TCIL), a Public Sector Enterprise under the Department of Telecom, Ministry of Communications & Information Technology, Government of India, is one of the Application Service Providers (ASP) of ElectronicTender® in India. TCIL has setup an e-Procurement/ e-Auction portal using the software of ElectronicTender for rendering e-Procurement/ e-Auction services to multiple other Government entities. TCIL’s portal is hosted at its own Data-Center in New Delhi.

  • A Purchasing-Entity can register on TCIL’s e-Procurement/ e-Auction portal, https://www.tcil-india-electronictender.com , for conducting ‘online’ their ‘Sealed-Bid tendering processes’ in the most Secure and Transparent manner. The system offers added functionality of e-ReverseAuction, e-ForwardAuction, integrated in a streamlined manner with the core sealed-bid e-procurement system

  • TCIL’s portal is ‘Ready-to-use’. A Purchasing-Entity can itself (ie through its own authorized officers) configure the portal to align with its tendering policy and procedures without any need for long-drawn customization. Different Purchasing-Entities registered on the same portal can have different e-tendering policies as per their respective requirements

  • Powers and controls of the concerned officers of the Purchasing-Entity for handling the core tendering processes will remain in the hands of the existing duly authorized officers of that organization, and will not get transferred to personnel of the e-procurement service-provider

  • Bid-encryption methodology is so robust, that no vendor/ bidder would be able to point an accusing finger towards the Purchasing-Entity and its officers for ‘breach of bid confidentiality’ prior to the Public Online Tender Opening Event

  • The ‘Public Online Tender Opening Event (TOE)’ functionality in the system is ‘not limited to mere opening of bids online’, as in many competing e-procurement systems. Every requirement of a properly conducted TOE in the manual system, with security and transparency related significance, is available in the TCIL-ElectronicTender system. So, no vendor/ bidder would be able to point an accusing finger towards the Purchasing-Entity and its officers for not conducting a comprehensive and transparent ‘Public Online Tender Opening Event’

  • Even in the e-Auction system, the duly authorized officers of the concerned Government organization would themselves conduct the e-Auction without any interference of the service-provider, ie TCIL


The Security and Transparency related functionality (specific to Public Procurement) inbuilt in ElectronicTender’s e-Procurement / e-Auction software is currently unmatched by any competing system in the world.