Industry background- The current scenario in India & growth
HCL has been deeply working with Indian Railways since inception three decades back. Indian Railways is operating and maintaining one of the largest networks in the country comprising over 1.5 million employees, 64000 route kilometers and over 7000 railway stations. Total of 11000 trains run daily out of which 7000 are passenger trains.
Indian railways proudly boasts of maintaining
• More than 7500 locomotive
• 38000 coaches
• 222000 freight wagons
• 300 yards
• 2300 good sheds
Indian Railways operates through 16 Zonal Railways, 6 production units and 67 divisional offices spread across the country.
IT enablement through solutions on reservation terminals, setting up Data centres, creating WAN networks, development and rollout of eProcurement solution for optimizing the stores operations and ease to vendors, Setting up Automatic Ticket vending machines infrastructure for unreserved ticketing system, Providing energy management solutions for reducing energy consumption.
Our Solutions & Wins
1. Enterprisewide eProcurement solution for Indian Railways.(www.ireps.gov.in)
Based on the success of pilot project in Northern Railway (www.nreps.com), Railway Board has sanctioned the project for implementation of E-procurement system in eight zonal railways (WR, CR, NR, SECR, WCR, NCR, SR and SCR) and five production units (RCF, ICF, DLW, DMW and RWF). Implementation of Electronic Procurement System (EPS) will increase the transparency and reduce the procurement time cycle thus resulting in improved purchase efficiency. It will also reduce the cost of material as well as cost of purchase due to savings in logistics and transaction cost. The project is to be implemented in secured Data Center at CRIS with connectivity to the railways.
The EPS Application also provides facility for :-
1. Creation and uploading of various types of tender documents on the web site.
2. Free search, view and download of bid documents by vendors.
3. On line submission of digitally signed and encrypted bids in a pre defined format, including facility to up load documents like performance statement etc.
4. Payment of tender fee and earnest money through payment gateway.
5. Opening of bids on the nominated date and time by two authorized representative of buyer by applying their password and digital signature.
6. Generation of item wise, consignee wise and supplier wise comparative statement of rate as well as tabular
