What the State Is Selling.
Spotlight
- 01 curio
Boeing B737-900 aircraft, partial engine configuration, liquidation
Decommissioned B737-900 (MSN 33740, VT-JGD) with one serviceable engine, sold via IBBI insolvency liquidation; commercial aircraft rarely appear on government auctions.
- 02 niche-instrument
Seiko thermal analyzer and laboratory furnaces
The manifest details a specific Seiko Simultaneous TG/DTA instrument, high-temperature furnaces, and testing equipment from a research laboratory, offering strong niche-instrument value.
- 03 niche-instrument
64 Slice Cardiac CT Scan and Syngo MM Workplace
High-value advanced medical imaging equipment from a premier medical research council, offered with a nominal start price.
- 04 niche-instrument
Forensic laboratory scientific equipment and electronics surplus
The manifest details specialized laboratory instruments including an FTIR spectrometer, thermal cycler, high-speed centrifuge, and voice print spectrograph from a forensic science laboratory.
- 05 curio
Ten T-72 tank gearboxes
The lot comprises ten military tank gearboxes from a defense ordnance depot, presenting a distinct tactical hardware curio.
- 06 niche-instrument
Potomac Aviation Technology air traffic control microtowers
Three complete sets of specialized air traffic control microtowers from an airport operator, offered at a nominal starting price.
- 07 curio
Five Bofors vehicle engine assemblies
Military ordnance disposal of five Bofors engine assemblies offered at a nominal starting price.
- 08 niche-instrument
17 Edwards IPX100 dry pumps
Seventeen specialized dry vacuum pumps from a semiconductor fabrication facility offered at a nominal starting price.
- 09 niche-instrument
Topcon GPT 7501 Total Stations and surveying equipment
The annexure details specific geodetic equipment including four Topcon Total Station units from a government mapping agency.
- 10 curio
Zoological Survey field equipment and vintage optics surplus
The lot contains a diverse collection of vintage field equipment, binoculars, microscopes, and optical instruments from the Zoological Survey of India.
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Methodology
- 01
Ingest
A nightly crawl of MSTC (twenty regional offices), BAANKNET (IBC liquidation auctions), and IREPS (Indian Railways disposal). Each auction is captured once with provenance: URL, snapshot, fetched-at timestamp.
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Normalise
Lots are mapped to a single schema: selling agency, category, location, reserve price, EMD, start, close. Annexures, the per-lot detail PDFs MSTC publishes alongside the catalogue, are fetched and excerpted. Embedded photos are pulled out of the PDFs and shown on the lot cards.
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Score
Every lot is scored 1–10 against four categories: arbitrage, niche-instrument, prestige-seller, curio. The publishing floor is per-category, not uniform. Arbitrage needs a clear margin; prestige and curio surface earlier. Anything from a prestige seller is included regardless of category fit.
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Surface
The register holds the curated cut. Search spans the whole active database. The spotlight rotates nightly. Subscribers get at most one email a day for new matches, and the feeds (RSS and JSON) republish the register for machines.
Primary sources
- MSTC Limited
- mstcindia.co.in: the Government of India’s e-auction platform for surplus, disposal, scrap, and confiscated goods. Twenty regional offices. Primary ingest target.
- BAANKNET
- baanknet.com: the IBBI-mandated auction platform for liquidation proceedings under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code. Covers plant, machinery, and business assets from companies in resolution.
- IREPS
- Indian Railways e-Procurement System: disposal auctions for condemned railway material (sleepers, track fittings, rolling stock parts). Scraped as a supplementary source.
The register tracks what is publicly listed across these platforms. It does not predict outcomes, advise on bidding, or represent any seller or buyer. Like the rest of nl06, it records what a running system does.