Digital Signatures
Which DSC you need for tenders and procurement
GeM, CPPP, Railways and the state tender portals need a certificate that can both sign and encrypt. Here is what that means, whose name it goes in, and what to send us.
Who signs on the portal?
Tenders and procurement · Proprietor or individual
Class 3 Combo — sign and encrypt
- In whose name
- Whoever submits the bid
- Covers
- GeM, CPPP, Railways, State Tender Portals
- Validity
- 2 years · 3 years
- Professional fees
- On request
Documents Required
5 documents
- Certificate of Incorporation or registration certificate, for an organisation applicant
- PAN of the organisation
- Board resolution or authorisation letter naming the signatory
- PAN of the authorised signatory
- Aadhaar card
- Email address
- Active mobile number of the signatory
Before you apply
Most bidders don't discover a tender wants an encryption certificate until a submission is rejected for missing one — check the specific tender's technical requirements before assuming a signing-only certificate is enough. An encryption certificate cannot be added onto an already-issued signing-only certificate afterward; it has to be issued as a combo from the start.
Video verification
Every digital signature certificate needs a short video verification before it can be issued. You record it yourself, from your own phone or laptop — it takes two to three minutes.
How to record it
- 1.Log in and open Record Video.
- 2.Read the text on your screen out loud, including your verification code.
- 3.Organisation and foreign DSC: hold up each document you uploaded, one at a time, so it is clearly readable on camera.
- 4.Submit.
The text on screen reads something close to this:
“My name is Narendra. My video verification code is 123. I have applied for Digital Signature.”
Read the version shown on your own screen — your name, your code. Don't recite the example above.
Before you press record
Sit somewhere quiet with steady light on your face. The audio is checked as carefully as the video, so a fan, a TV or traffic behind you is enough to fail a recording.
Why videos get rejected
- Face not fully in frame, or too dark to make out
- Speech unclear, too quiet, or drowned out by background noise
- People or movement behind you
- Documents held too close, too far, or out of focus to read
A rejected video means recording again and waiting for the second one to be reviewed, so it is worth two quiet minutes the first time.
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