A department cannot buy an innovation.
It can buy evidence — then buy the product.
Indian procurement law has no instrument for buying innovation. GovStart Bridge is the mechanism that works anyway — without changing a single rule.
Pratapgad fort, Satara district
The gap
Three rules close every obvious route
No direct award
Allowed on three grounds. “Won our challenge” is not one of them.
No quiet rollout
A small pilot then a big rollout of the same demand is piecemeal purchase.
A conditional gift
Turnover may be relaxed for startups — but only if the bidding document says so.
The idea
Two purchases, not one
You cannot specify an innovation in advance — so you buy the evidence first, and the product once that evidence exists.
Evidence Contract
MSInS contracts · the department hosts
- Buys a defined question, a defined test, a report
- Competition on the outcome, never the solution
- Eligibility relaxed in proportion to a measured risk cap
Deployment Contract
the department buys
- Buys a now-specified product
- Entered only after independent validation
- Routed to Tier 1, 2 or 3 on facts already held
How it works
Six steps, and each one narrows the next
Proof
Three things that actually work
Not mock-ups. Try them here, or in full inside the walkthrough.
The criteria cannot move
Success criteria are hashed with SHA-256 and published before any solution is seen. Edit one and the seal breaks in front of you.
Risk decides eligibility
Turnover is a proxy for delivery risk. Cap the risk in the contract and the proxy is redundant — which is exactly when the rule lets you drop it.
Three lawful routes
No single route exists from a validated pilot to a purchase order, so the platform holds three and picks on facts it already has.
Or go straight in
Built for all six divisions
From the Konkan coast to Vidarbha, the same mechanism runs — with the same templates, the same sealed criteria and the same validation gate.
Sahyadri range, Raigad district