The government is gearing up to invite bids to operate the goods and services tax tech platform based on a flexible task structure, unlike the present contract with Infosys, which has fixed costs, two senior officials said.
The Goods and Servies Tax Network is also considering whether to allow global companies to bid for the contract, given data localisation concerns, they said. The new contract will start October 1, 2024, after Infosys’ term ends.
“GSTN is working on the bid document to invite interested bidders in which they will define the job for the next consultancy firm. In terms of the bid, we are looking at a different structure having a flexible task-based contract rather than a fixed size contract,” a senior government official told Moneycontrol.
Infosys won the Rs 1,380 crore contract to build and maintain the IT backbone for the GST regime in 2015.
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