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In today's highly competitive environment, business entities are forced to enhance efficiency by cutting down wasteful expenditure. This involves manpower and process optimization and cost reduction by realigning business processes to take advantage of technology. A lot of effort has been put in by the industry and government entities to automate/e-enable their processes pertaining to line and staff functions. Procurement is one such area which has seen rapid computerization. Against the backdrop of the prevailing corruption and inordinate delay in public procurements in India, e-procurement implementation becomes important. Shift from manual procurement to e-procurement has inherent benefits such as efficiency, effectiveness and transparency which have been validated in numerous studies. Studies on e-procurement implementation best practices are limited in scope and therefore lack specificity to the Indian context and public procurement policies. Difference in the enabling environment like IT infrastructure, internet penetration and IT literacy are hurdles to implementation of these practices in the Indian context. Therefore, specific e-procurement implementation of best practices specific to the Indian context needs to be evolved. On the basis of India: e-Readiness Report 2008, the e-procurement implementation by the Governments of Andhra Pradesh and Chhattisgarh were selected as candidates for the qualitative case study. Qualitative and comparative analyses of the selected case studies were carried out using template analysis. The study brings out the impediments to successful implementation of e-procurement solutions specific to the Indian context, and thereafter covers the best practices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]