Inside GeM’s Drive for Transparent, AI-First Public Procurement

In India, public procurement has long faced challenges such as corruption, lack of transparency, vendor collusion, price manipulation, and bureaucratic inefficiencies. Ensuring fair and efficient procurement across central, state, and local levels is complex. In this context, the Government e-Marketplace (GeM) model becomes especially important.Pankaj Dikshit, CTO at Government e Marketplace (GeM), told AIM on the sidelines of DES 2025 that GeM began using AI for fraud and collusion detection well before the advent of Generative AI.  The Conventional Way “At the time (before GenAI), we relied on conventional AI, primarily machine learning and deep learning. Our approach began with analysing data from our internal storehouses, focusing on the information, metrics, and metadata surr