GeM Registration
Government eMarketplace, or the GeM portal, was launched by the Government of India to facilitate public procurement for government institutions. It also aims to facilitate the sale of Indian businesses’ products directly to the government and participation in government tenders.
How to register on GeM portal as a seller?
The GeM portal seller registration process is just a few minutes long and involves filling in a GeM portal registration form and submitting a few documents.
Follow these steps to register on GeM portal as a seller:
Follow these steps to register on GeM portal as a seller:
- Visit the GeM portal
- Click on the ‘Sign up’ button on the homepage
- Select ‘Seller’
- Click on ‘Review terms and conditions’ option that appears on the next page
- Read the terms and conditions that appear on the next page and check the box labelled ‘I have read and agree to the terms and conditions of GeM’
- Fill in the organisation details that appear on the next page
- Select ‘Organisation/business type’ (proprietorship, partnership, etc.) from the drop-down menu and fill in your ‘Organisation/business name’
- You will be asked to reenter the business name to ensure that it is correct with the right spelling as the name cannot be edited once it is saved
- Click on ‘Next’
- Fill in ‘Personal Verification’ section that appears on the next page (You can either click on Business PAN or Aadhaar and fill furnish the relevant details)
- Fill out your phone number in the mobile number column (This will appear after you finish filling your PAN/Aadhaar details. Click on the ‘Send OTP’ button after you fill in your mobile number. Enter the OTP in the next box and tap on ‘Verify OTP’.)
- Fill out the ‘email verification’ section on the next page (The OTP verification is repeated here)
- Carefully complete the ‘User credentials’ page by filling in the User ID and password (Make sure to memorise this or note it down somewhere so you can login to GeM portal once the registration on GeM portal is finished)
- Furnish the PAN verification section that appears on the next page
- Fill out the company details on the next page (This will include questions like ‘Are you a startup?’, ‘Are you registered with MSME as a Micro Small and Medium Enterprise?’, ‘Do you want to participate in a bid?’, etc. It will also ask you to add your office addresses.)
- Complete the form that appears asking for bank account details. This is the account that you will receive money into after participating in bids or through direct purchase orders.
- Declare your e-Invoice compliance in the next step by providing your turnover in the past three years and clicking on yes or no by the column labelled ‘Specific category excluded from compliance to e-Invoicing as notified’. This is asking you whether you are exempt from the e-Invoicing rule.
Documents required for GeM portal registration as a seller
For the process mentioned above these are the GeM portal registration documents required:
- PAN card
- Aadhaar card
- GST certification
- ITR for the past two years
- MSME registration certificate (if applicable)
- Startup India registration (if applicable)
