E-Procurement Praxis in Government Organizations

Contemporarily, the utilization of Internet for business transactions has advanced significantly. The penetration of the telecommunication network has been a foremost causative factor. Advances in telecommunications and computing occurred frequently in the past and is now flocked on the Internet. Electronic commerce is used by the Companies to enter into new markets that would have otherwise been excluded, due to geography, cost and other issues. Companies rely on electronic commerce to outspread their products to novel sets of customers and novel parts of the globe. The web facilitates a company to expose a new product into the market, get instantaneous customer reaction, enhance and impeccable it, without incurring enormous investment in the physical distribution infrastructure or purchasing a shelf space at a retailer or distributor. Electronic procurement (E-procurement) has been widely embraced even by governments seeking administrative efficiency and cost reduction techniques that were originally experienced in the private sector. The purpose of this paper is to understand the E-procurement praxis (practice) and its usage in Government organizations (E-Government Procurement). Case studies of three government organizations from India and US were deliberately studied and analyzed. The results revealed that cost benefit was the main driver for these organizations to implement E-procurement