Government eMarketplace (GeM)

In less than five years since its launch in 2016, GeM has completely reimagined and disrupted the procurement ecosystem to make it truly, diverse and inclusive, through a strategic focus on previously marginalized/underserved seller segments, particularly those adversely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Coordinated implementation of software functionalities with offline capacity building and outreach attempts have proven successful- GeM has currently 650,000+ medium, small and micro enterprises (6.8X increase), 8000+ startups (1.6X increase) and 100,000+ women entrepreneurs (7X increase). Of all procurement on GeM in financial year 2019-20, 61% was contributed by startups, women and medium, micro and small enterprises.