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IT major TCS and Intellect Design Arena are in the race for a contract for the development of an advanced version of public procurement portal GeM, sources said. The government invited tenders for new GeM (Government e-marketplace) portal development work in February-March this year and after scrutiny of the bids, TCS and Intellect Design Arena qualified in the technical stage. Fintech Company Infibeam Avenues Ltd is out of the race as it was disqualified during the tender evaluation as the company was not able to submit the Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) certificate which is mandatory for IT projects, they said. The government had set a pre-condition for the bidders to have a special certificate to qualify for the GeM portal tender. At present, a private consortium, including Intellect Design Arena and Infibeam, is running the portal. GeM was launched by the commerce ministry in August 2016 for online purchases of goods and services by all the central government ...