Procuring Market Survey
Services through GeM
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Overview
What are Market Survey Services?
This service maybe availed to conduct qualitative and/or quantitative surveys for the purpose of scheme
evaluation, impact assessment etc depending on buyer context. A survey typically consists of 3 phases –
• pre-survey work like questionnaire preparation and sampling strategy
• data collection
• data analysis and reporting.
Data collection is a mandatory scope item. Pre-survey work and data analysis maybe added to scope only if
required.
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Buyer will need to login to their GeM account to
procure Market Research Survey Services.
Enter User
Id, the
Captcha text
and click
submit.
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Click on ‘Market’ and from the dropdown menu, click on
‘Services’ to check out the list of services available.
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Select ‘ Survey or Market Research Services/ Program
evaluation or assessment survey services/Feedback Survey’
Search for the
service by
typing in the
keywords
here.
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Framework for procurement of Market Survey Service
Particulars Details
Quantity to be defined Service provider will enter lumpsum cost or total cost for the project.
Buyer can upload format for price break-up while creating the bid.
Payment terms Buyer to define payment milestones basis deliverables. Payments will be
limited to contract value, 25% variation is possible after contract
generation.
Modes of selection QCBS,LCS, L1 and RA option has been enabled.
LCS is Least Cost Selection method wherein a fail/pass criteria can be set
prescribing only the minimum qualifying benchmark.
Mode of purchase This is configures as a bid only service.
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Service Category - “ Survey or Market Research Services/ Program evaluation or
assessment survey services/Feedback Survey” under Market Survey Related
Services Category has been Selected here .
Guidance on
Scope of Work
The Standard Terms and Conditio
agreements specified by GeM for
here. These will automatically be
and contract. Any additional SLA
In case of In case of mentioned in Additional Terms an
quantitative surveys, qualitative survey, creating the bid.
buyer will need to buyers may provide
indicate their sample detailed
size. requirements Detailed scop
regarding Focussed uploaded whi
Group Discussions bid creation. B
and In-depth to select filter
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boxes important tha
detailed
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Click here to update the Consignee Details.
Select the State, set quantity to 1 and Then
click here to continue.
Buyers can specify their requirements against each specification.
From the list of filters, select the type of survey
Domain, Type of Survey, Scope of work , Activities
Under Pre Survey Work, Geographic Coverage ,
etc. as per need.
Tooltips for detailed explanation of the filters is
provided. . Buyers may tick on “Other “ option
and write their custom input in case matching
specifications are not found.
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A list of service providers whose uploaded catalogue matches the
specifications selected by the Buyer will be displayed just for reference.
Buyer can select any one of the
offering to proceed and “Add to
cart”
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Click on ‘Proceed to Checkout’ when all required
services have been included in the cart.
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Click on Bid to create bid of services.
On the checkout screen, Click on ‘Bid’ to
create Bid. Click on Confirm to continue.
Any additional data required like scope of
work, additional requirements etc can be
uploaded during bid.
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Click on each service individually to review its specifications.
Click on the
respective services
to review the
specifications and
save.
Click here to verify and ‘Save’
each offering and proceed.
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Save all Service Specifications.
The text of each service turns
green if it has been saved
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Enter Consignee Details for all Services.
View and Save the
consignee details
for all services
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Fill in the Bid details for all the services.
Select the required
details as per your bid.
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Select Contract
duration.
Select and upload additional data required like
scope of work, format of price breakup etc.
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Or, Buyer can also opt for LCS based evaluation
Select yes to opt for LCS based evaluation.
Else evaluation will be on L1 basis.
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Buyer can ask EMD and EPBG details, which is allowed only if Bid
value is greater than 5 Lakhs, though not mandatory.
Here , ‘No’ has been selected for
both EMD & ePBG but the
respective buyer may edit this as
per their requirement and
compliance to relevant circulars
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Buyer can include Additional Terms and Conditions (ATCs), if required .
To define your own T&Cs, Buyer can click here
and define/upload their bid-specific ATCs.
Click on ‘Submit’ to
continue
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Buyer agrees to the General Terms and Conditions (GTC) of GeM.
Buyer agrees to the
GTC of GeM
Buyer can download the
Bid document from here.
Select the relevant option to
verify and publish the bid.
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Document Updated 08th November 2021
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