Guidelines for procurement of desktop PCs – Railway Board Order dated 22.08.2024
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS
(RAILWAY BOARD)
No. A-15013(12)/11/2020-RBCC
dated 22.08.2024
The General Managers
All Indian Railways/Production Units
(As per standard list)
Sub: Guidelines for procurement of desktop PCs
Ref: MeitY Office Memorandum No.- 8(1)/2023-Cybersecurity dated 04.06.2024.
Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has framed minimum specifications of Desktop PCs for procurement to be made by Ministries/Departments and their agencies/PSUs. Accordingly, it has now been decided that procurement of Desktop PCs are to be made in Indian Railways as per specifications issued by MeitY. Specification and entitlement of Desktop PCs for Officers/staff are as under:
| Level of Desktop PCs Desktop PCs | Specification | Entitlement of officers/staff |
| Level 1 | Intel Core i7 / AMD R7 with x86 Processor, 21.5” Monitor, 16GB RAM, 1 TB SSD, Windows Professional Edition or Linux versions with OEM support /Linux, TPM chip required for Bit Locker Disk encryption | Officers SAG and above |
| Level 2 | Intel Core i5 / AMD R5 with x86 Processor, 21.5” Monitor, 16GB RAM, 500GB SSD, Windows Professional Edition or Linux versions with OEM support /Linux, TPM chip required for Bit Locker Disk encryption |
Group ‘A’ officers upto SG, Group ‘B’ officers Non-Gazetted staff |
2. In case of any specific requirement that require high compute or memory intensive infrastructure, Railways may procure high specifications desktop PCs subject to condition that overall financial limit prescribed in MSOP-2018 for the purchase of PCs 1s not breached and the following conditions are followed:
(i) Higher specifications of PC should only be permitted with the prior concurrence of associate finance, and
(ii) The approval should be taken from GMs in concerned Zonal Railways/PUs.
3. This order supersede the earlier guidelines issued by this office letter dated 04.01.2022 and 14.09.2023.
4. Procurement is to be done through GeM portal only.
5. This issues with concurrence of Finance Directorate of Ministry of Railways.
Please acknowledge receipt.
Encl: OM dated 04.06.2024 of MeitY
Sd/-
(Bharat Bhushan Harit)
Director ME(C&IS)
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