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With INAM-Pro+, an effort has been made to eradicate the problem of material supply uncertainty,
thereby leading to better planning and accurate scheduling, ensuring timely completion of projects and
an overall improved project execution. For example, in Cement sector, Ceiling Price mechanism was
implemented by INAM-Pro+ by which Sellers sell cement at prices fixed for 3 years with permitted
yearly escalation of maximum 10%. Such price certainty has helped in checking cost escalations and
ensuring timely availability. With data points on real market prices at hand, one can easily plan and
schedule projects and ensure timely completion.

Further, since Government of India has been encouraging the cash economy to cashless economy, the
platform provides payment gateway services without any kind of charge for online transaction. INAM-
Pro+ has also acquired the potential of becoming an effective tool to carry out product based market
research for students/ academics/ researchers/ consultants in Infrastructure domain. The platform has
bagged Gold Award for Govt. Process Re-engineering for 2017-18 at 21st National Conference on e-
governance in addition to all around applause from the Infrastructure Industry.

Results Achieved

(i) The Contractors are getting benefitted due to mitigation of cost risks while bidding for the
projects and subsequent implementation by procuring the materials at the most appropriate price.

(ii) Tax payers’ money is saved since projects’ cost get estimated based on the material prices
determined by the market forces and wild fluctuations were avoided, which attenuated the
premiums charged by Contractors on account of uncertainty in prices.

(iii) Cement Industry was known for abrupt price changes but by introduction of ceiling price
mechanism through INAM-Pro+, the prices have stabilized during last 3 years. A kind of trust
has built up among Contractors that they can anticipate about the expected cement’s cost in next
three years while bidding for Infrastructure sector works.

(iv) The expansion of INAM-Pro+ to other domains in June 2017 to cover A to Z of Infrastructure
Materials & Equipments has enabled other Material Suppliers to access the Buyers already
aggregated on the platform.

(v) It also helped the Start Ups/ New Technology Providers to bring in latest products at common
platform.

(vi) Besides being an e-Commerce platform, it has become a popular information tool to various
stakeholders of Infrastructure Industry including the academic institutions in the country.

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