Moving forward with its plans to conduct e-auctions and allotment of plots and tenements, Goa Housing Board (GHB) has invited bidders to execute this initiative.
To select an implementation agency to conduct the e-auctions, Goa Electronic Limited (GEL), on behalf of GHB, is seeking a request for proposal (RFP) from parties in two bid formats comprising technical and financial bids.
GHB has nominated GEL to bring in IT intervention in its operations. GEL will be the monitoring agency for the entire project period of five years. “The e-auction will be equivalent to an offline auction, only much better and efficient,” states the tender document.
GHB’s objective is develop affordable real estate projects for people of the state.There are two primary approaches by which flats get alloted to applicants – lottery system and auctioning. The decision of whether to opt for lottery, auctioning or a combination of both is up to the board’s discretion, states the tender document.
“The selected bidder shall provide a complete secured end-to-end e-auction solution adhering to all acts, rules and regulations of GHB. The board will release an advertisement in newspapers displaying the schedule for the e-auction along with other relevant details. Simultaneously, GHB will also create a corresponding schedule for the e-auction in the portal. It will map which units will be put up for auction from the inventory of assets, auction timings for each unit, base prices, etc,” mentions the tender document.
GHB will have an entire list of inventory (shops, flats, row houses, etc) in their existing Goaonline portal. The e-auctioning portal should import or create the entire inventory from GHBs existing application for every auction in real time and also have the provision to create the inventory in the system itself.
“The e-auction portal should have a provision to set the date and time in the system as per the created schedule, and subsequently conduct the live e-auction at that set date and time,” states the document.
