स्टोर और खरीद डिवीजन

About the Division

 “Stores & Purchase”, the humble nomenclature in the Govt. parlance, is better known as “Materials Management” or “Supply Chain Management”. Supply Chain is the inconspicuous life-line underlying the key performance outcomes of an organization.

 The Stores & Purchase Division (SPD) at CSIR Headquarters spearheads the Goods procurement apparatus for the whole of CSIR, including the Headquarters. Sculpting an appropriate procurement policy ecosystem, adpotion of new-age technologies & management techniques aimed at providing an efficient & effective supply support system to R&D are among its vision & objectives. The Division is guided by the mission: Ease of Doing Procurement for Ease of Doing Science.

 Adoption and adaption of Rules, Guidelines, Manuals, Model Tender/ Contract Documents, best practices, mandatory compliances, identifying & removing operational bottlenecks/ inefficient practices/ processes, initiating reforms & Business Process Re-engineering (BPR), work flow automation, digitization, curation & management of legacy data, co-ordination/ liasioning with various Govt. Departments/ Agencies, filing of variuos reports and returns, procurement planning & web-hosting, skill-gap assessment, re-skilling/ up-skilling of officers & staff etc. are a few illustrative roles & functions of SPD. A more detailed enumeration is given below for better appreciation:

1. Common/ Pan-CSIR Functions
   1. Adopting/Adapting Procurement Policy and Guidelines of the Govt. such as GFR/ DFPR, Manuals/Guidelines/Model Tender Documents etc. in CSIR.
   2. Framing CSIR’s own internal procedures and policies pertaining to Stores & Purchase
   3. Processing and piloting of proposals of Labs/Instts. such as GTE, Vehicle, Pre-mature Condemnation, Physical Verification and Write-off & Loss etc.
   4. Taking up common procurement issues with authorities within and outside CSIR, for example with Cabinet Sectt., O/o PSA, DOE/ MOF, NITI Ayoga, MSME, DPIIT, DGFT, Customs, CPPP/NIC and GeM etc.
   5. Filing of various reports and returns on procurement matters as sought by the Government/other authorities from time to time.
   6. Domain advisory services on specific references from Legal, Vigilance, Finance and other Divisions of Hqtrs. or from Labs/Intts.
   7. Settling complaints & grivances
   8. Co-ordinating operationalization of IP/IEM scheme
   9. Scouting and sharing of best game-changing practices/ case studies
   10. Organising virtual talks/ webinars on topics of professional importance

   11. Other Pan-CSIR procurement related activities.

       (For further details, please refer to Roles & Functions)

2. Supply Chain @ CSIR Headquarters/ Central Office 

   A unit of Stores & Purchase Division (SPD), headed by CoSP (Central Office) is exclusively engaged in the Supply Chain Management (SCM) functions of CSIR Headquarters/Central Office. This unit handles the entire spectrum of Stores & Purchase activities for CSIR Headquarters, akin to its counterparts in a medium sized Lab. / Instt. It handled a total procurement Budget of Rs. 8 Cr appx. In the FY 2023-24 in P-4 (Misc. & Maintenance), P-50 (Capital) and P-7 (Consumable), P-072 (ORE) etc. Besides, in the FY 2023-24, it has conducted as many as seven disposals of obsolete/ unserviceable stores/ scraps with Book Value worth Rs1.20 Cr. appx., earning a total revenue of Rs. 8.06 Lac 

   (For further details, please refer to Roles & Functions)