Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) has rolled out its e-procurement initiative for its global vendor community, a first-of-its-kind initiative in India.

To participate in the e-tendering process, every vendor is required to use a Class 3 Digital Signature Certificate from a Certifying Authority (CA) in India licensed by the Controller of Certifying Authorities (CCA) under the Indian IT Act 2000. Safe Scrypt, an affiliate of VeriSign (Nasdaq: VRSN) in India , is India's first Licensed Certifying Authority.

It is SafeScrypt's privilege to be associated with ONGC in this prestigious initiative - both as the PKI technology enabler of ONGC's e-procurement application as well as a provider of legally valid Digital Signature Certificates to ONGC employees and vendors.

The participating vendor would use these digital signature certificates to digitally sign documents (such as Price Bid and Unpriced Technical Bids) and submit them online to ONGC as responses to the tenders published online

Steps for purchasing an RCAI Class 3 Digital Signature Certificate:

Step 1 : Complete payment formalities

Contact us at 98400-65650 or email at krishna@spudweb.in and we will get in touch with you to complete payment formalities.

On completing the payment formalities, you will be given a "Token Redemption Number" (TRN). Using the TRN, move to the next step.

Unit Price: INR (Rs.) 2,000.00
* Installation charges and Taxes extra as applicable

Step 2 : Enroll for the certificate

After receiving the TRN, please visit our enrollment page for registering your details for the Digital Signature Certificate. You can refer our enrollment guide for understanding the process.

Click here to go to the Digital Certificate Enrollment Page

Step 3 : Send validation documents to SafeScrypt

The purpose of validation is to ascertain your identity and to make sure that someone else is not impersonating you. For this, you are required to submit certain documents to SafeScrypt.

IMPORTANT: By default, your Private Key is generated and stored in the browser you do the enrollment with i.e. Internet Explorer or Netscape (unless you use a smartcard or USB token). Therefore, please remember to pick up your certificate using the same browser and computer you used to do the enrollment.

USB Cryptographic Token

SafeScrypt recommends that you use a USB Cryptographic Token device to store your Digital Signature Certificate. This recommendation is as per the provisions of the Rules under the IT Act 2000, which mandates that Private Keys should be stored on-board secure devices such as smartcards or hardware tokens with cryptographic modules, for creating Secure Digital Signatures.

The USB Cryptographic Token:

provides additional security for your private keys which are generated on-board the device and can never be copied from the token device. All cryptographic operations are carried out from on-board the token device is low cost, very easy to use and ensures that you have complete portability for your Digital Signature Certificate, without being 'locked' to your computer therefore, enhances the Security and Useability of your Digital Signature Certificate

Unit Price: INR (Rs.) 1,500.00
* Installation charges and Taxes extra as applicable

Note: SafeScrypt issues Digital Signature Certificate only after receiving these documents and successfully performing validation of information submitted by the applicant. Please take into account time taken for document submission as lead-time for obtaining Digital Signature Certificate. Certificate Issuance within India will take approximately 3 to 5 working days.

Step 4 : Pickup of certificate

After successfully completing the identity validation procedures, SafeScrypt will send an email to the applicant for certificate pickup.

Contact Us to purchase your Digital Signature Certificate and USB Cryptographic Token.

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