DETAILED NOTICE INVITING E-TENDER (DNIT)

BHARAT SANCHAR NIGAM LIMITED

(A Government of India Enterprise)

MMT Section, 2nd floor, Bharat Sanchar Bhawan,

Janpath, New Delhi - 110 001

Tender No. CA/MMT/OTN/CNP/T-499/2015 issued on 21/01/2015

On behalf of Chairman and Managing Director, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited, digitally sealed online tenders, on rupee payment basis, are invited in Single Stage Bidding and two stage Opening using two Electronic Envelopes (Techno-commercial bid and Financial bid) from the eligible bidders for supply of following items.

S. No. / Name of the Item / Quantity (in Nos.) / Bid Security/EMD
for the tender
1. / Optical Transport Network (OTN) Equipment / 59 Nodes / Rs. 2 Crore

Note 1: The quantity stated above are estimated and BSNL reserves the right to vary the quantity to the extent of -25 % to +25 % of specified quantity at the time of award of the contract i.e. APO without any change in unit price or other terms & conditions.

Note 2: This being a turnkey project, the provision for MSEs is not made in this tender.

2.Purchase of Tender Document: Tender document can be obtained by downloading it from the website “ from 22.01.2015 onwards. For e-bidding process, tender document shall have to be downloaded from 02.02.2015 from e-tender portal following the Link-“E-Tenders” (

2.1The bidders downloading the tender document are required to submit the tender fee of Rs. 10,000/- through DD/ Banker’s cheque along with their tender bid failing which the tender bid shall be left archived unopened/ rejected.

The DD/ banker’s cheque shall be drawn from any Nationalized/ Scheduled Bank in favour of “AO(Cash), BSNL, C.O. New Delhi” and payable at “New Delhi”.

3.0 Availability of Tender Document: The tender document shall be available for downloading from 22/01/2015 onwards.

3.1BSNL has decided to use process of e-tendering for inviting this tender and thus the physical copy of the tender would not be sold.

3.2Sale of Tender document: Not applicable.

Note 3: The Tender document shall not be available for download on its submission / closing date.

  1. Eligibility Criteria: -

4.1. In order to qualify as a Bidder, a prospective Bidder shall fulfill the following eligibility criteria:

(i)The Bidder Company shall be registered & incorporated in India under the Companies Act, 1956.

(ii)The Bidder shall be a company having a minimum turnover of INR 200 crore each year during the last three years (i.e. 2011-12, 2012-13 and 2013-14). In case of an Indian subsidiary, the turnover of the Parent Company or Parent/ Holding Company of the Parent Company shall also be taken into consideration for determining the fulfillment of this condition.

(iii)The Bidder or its Parent Company or Parent/ Holding Company of the Parent Company shall be Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) of OPTICAL TRANSPORT NETWORK (OTN) Equipment.

(iv)Bidder or its Parent Company or Parent/ Holding Company of the Parent Company shall have the experience of Supply & deployment of OPTICAL TRANSPORT NETWORK (OTN) duringlast three years (i.e. 2011-12, 2012-13, 2013-14)with total capacity of at least 15 OTN Nodes (of Line Cards of capacity 100 Gbps) in not more than 3 telecom networks.

(v)In case the bidder is not meeting the eligibility as per para (iii) & (iv) above, then bid can be submitted through a legally bound consortium/ teaming agreement with the OEM firm meeting eligibility criteria (ii), (iii) & (iv) above. Bidder shall be having a minimum turnover of INR 200 crores each year during the last three years (i.e. 2011-12, 2012-13, and 2013-14) and shall have an experience in installation and commissioning of Networking/Telecom related projects of a cumulative total of minimum of INR 100 Crore during last three financial years (i.e. 2011-12, 2012-13, and 2013-14).

(vi)In case a bid is submitted by bidder in consortium/ teaming agreement with the OEM of OPTICAL TRANSPORT NETWORK (OTN) Equipment, the bidder and the OEM OPTICAL TRANSPORT NETWORK (OTN) Equipment i.e. Consortium/ teaming partner shall be jointly and severally responsible for due performance of the contract including continued post execution AMC/ repair of equipment. Both, the bidder as well as the OEM of OPTICAL TRANSPORT NETWORK (OTN) Equipment i.e. Consortium/ teaming partner shall have to furnish separate Performance Bank Guarantees (PBGs), each for an amount equal to 5% of the value of Purchase Order. Similarly both the bidder and the OEM OPTICAL TRANSPORT NETWORK (OTN) Equipment shall be jointly and severally remain responsible for non-performance inter-alia any other act that may lead to barring of business dealing with the bidders or banning of business.

(vii)The bidder company should have Valid PAN No.

(viii) The bidder company should have Valid Sales/ Service Tax Registration Certificate No. or exemption certificate No.

4.2 The bidders shall submit necessary documentary proof showing that they meet the eligibility criteria along with their tender bid. All documents submitted will also be self attested by the bidder.

5. Bid Security/EMD:

5.1The bidder shall furnish the bid EMD, if applicable, in one of the following ways:-

(a) Demand Draft/ Banker’s cheque drawn in favour of ‘AO (Cash), BSNL, C.O. New. Delhi’ and payable at ‘New Delhi’ either separately for each package or total for all number of packages participated.

b) Bank Guarantee from a scheduled bank drawn in favour of ‘DGM (MMT), Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited, Corporate Office, New Delhi’ which should be valid for 180 days from the tender opening date, either separately for each package or total for both the packages.

6.Date & Time of Submission of Tender bids: on or before 11.30 Hrs. of 25.02.2015.

Note 4:In case the date of submission (opening) of bid is declared to be a holiday, the date of submission (opening) of bid will get shifted automatically to next working day at the same scheduled time. Any change in bid opening date due to any other unavoidable reason will be intimated to all the bidders separately.

7.Opening of Tender Bids: After 00:30 Hours of this tender closing time and on the same date (25.02.2015).

8. Place of opening of Tender bids:

8.1The tenders shall be opened through ‘Public Online Tender Opening Event (POTOE)’. BSNL’s Tender Opening Officers as well as authorized representatives of bidders can attend the Public Online Tender Opening Event (TOE) from the comfort of their offices. Kindly refer clause 8 of Section-4 Part C of Tender document for further instructions.

8.2However, if required, authorized representatives of bidders (i.e. vendor organization) can attend the TOE at the “Meeting Room, 2nd Floor, Bharat Sanchar Bhawan, Janpath, New Delhi”, where BSNL’s Tender Opening Officers would be conducting Public Online Tender Opening Event (TOE).

9. Tender bids received after due time & date will not be accepted..

10.Incomplete, ambiguous, Conditional, unsealed tender bids are liable to be rejected.

11.“CMD, BSNL” reserves the right to accept or reject any or all tender bids without assigning any reason. He is not bound to accept the lowest tender.

12The bidder shall furnish a declaration in his tender bid that no addition / deletion / corrections have been made in the downloaded tender document being submitted and it is identical to the tender document appearing on the website.

12.1In case of any correction/addition/alteration/omission in the tender document, the tender bid shall be treated as non responsive and shall be rejected summarily.

  1. Integrity Pact Program is implemented for this tender for which signing of Integrity Pact is mandatory for the purchaser and bidder. Format of Integrity Pact is provided in the tender document at 7(F) in Section 7 Proforma(s). To oversee the implementation of Integrity Pact Program, IEMs are appointed by BSNL vide No. 15-1/2012-MMT dated 19.07.2012 which is available in ‘Tender Notice’ link on .

Note 5: All documents submitted in the bid offer shall be preferably in English. In case the certificate viz experience, registration etc. is issued in any other language other than English, the bidder shall attach an English translation of the same duly attested by the bidder & the translator to be true copy in addition to the relevant certificate.

Note 6: All computer generated documents should be duly signed/ attested by the bidder/ vendor organization.

Note 7. The last date of receipt of queries from bidders is 21 days prior to the date of opening of the Tender i.e. up to 04.02.2015.

F.No. CA/MMT/11-3/2015(CNP) Dated:- 21.01.2015

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