ITI Limited

 

ASCON Ph-IV Group

R&D, F21 First Floor
ITI Bangalore Plant

Doorvani Nagar,
BANGALORE – 560016

 

 

Expression of Interest (EOI) ASCON PHASE-IV

 

1.0             Introduction

 

1.1              ITI Limited is a Public Sector Undertaking under the Ministry of Communication, Govt. of India contributing to over 60% of the existing Indian Telecommunication Infrastructure. ITI is having 6 manufacturing plants, 11 Regional Offices and 34 Area Offices across the country.

 

1.2    Apart from manufacturing its own product range for telecom and IT market segments, ITI is associating with number of Multi National and Indian Corporate Companies to offer turnkey solutions to its clients like BSNL, MTNL, Indian Army, Railways, State Govt. Depts and Public Sector Organizations and the winner of total solution provider award from Voice & Date Magazine for 4 consecutive years till 2007.

 

1.3      ITI has the distinction of implementing ASCON Phases I,II,III Projects for Indian Army on “turnkey” basis. ASCON (Army Static Switched Communication Network) is an important network of Indian Army.  The project is being executed in phases under the Ministry of Defence.  An ATM based network is currently in use. The network expansion is to be carried out through “Turnkey” Phase IV Project covering almost the entire country including North and North East. ITI has establishments all over the country for ASCON Project and  deployed around 250 engineers for maintenance of ASCON Network.

 

1.4              Army has issued RFI to ITI for considering ITI for implementation of ASCON Phase IV  Network on “Turn Key basis. ITI is looking for suitable partners for implementing the ASCON_IV Project.

The scope of project covers full infrastructure construction including buildings, towers and power plants, supply, installation of all equipment, and integration and commissioning. The technical solutions are required to be as per ITU-T and IETF standards.  The following will form part of the solution.

1.4.1             Traffic  Engineering, re-routing, end to end QOS, CAC, <50 ms failure and restoration, path engineering.

 

1.4.2             TDM, ATM, Gig E, Carrier Ethernet, MPLS, for carrier grade voice, data, video conferencing, triple play and other value added services.

 

1.4.3     Wi Max  , P2MP, Wide band media, SDH, DWDM

 

1.4.4     Satellite Hub and VSAT sites, SDH MW Radio, PDH MW Radio

 

1.4.5     Construction of buildings including underground buildings, towers, OFC laying.

 

1.4.6     Power plants, ACs

 

1.4.7     Network Management System, OSS

 

1.4.8     Network integration

 

1.4.9     Vehicle base shelters

 

1.5               Vendors interested in participating along with ITI for providing a solution for ASCON Phase IV Project may indicate their areas of interest giving the details of the equipment with proposed deployment as per requirement of Army.  The vendors may also indicate the projects undertaken by them with cost, particularly projects undertaken with  Ministry of Defence (Army, Navy, Air force) for last 5 years. Completion certificates from customers may also be submitted.

Army is interested only in proven and available technologies.

 

1.6       Sealed Expression of Interest (EOI) is invited from eligible Indian registered companies who can supply, install and commission  the equipment and have proven experience in similar projects and meeting the following qualification criteria.

 

     

 

 

2.0            Qualification Criteria

 

Sl. No	Criteria	Description
2.1	Business	The bidder should be an established Indian firm with competence in implementing similar projects.
2. 2	Annual Turnover	The bidder shall have an average annual turnover of         Rs. 100 crores and more during last 3 years and should be a profit making company. The criteria for turnover can be relaxed in extremely deserving cases.
2. 3	Experience	The bidder should have experience in supply, installation and commissioning of the equipment supplied by him. He should have capability to integrate his equipment with other standard equipment and Network.
2.4	Capability	(i)       The bidder should have proven capability to execute the job including hardware, software, networking, system integration, design and implementation. (ii)     The bidder should have strong financial and organizational strength to undertake the project. (iii) The bidder must have qualified personnel for managing the network. They must have been working with the company for a reasonable time period.

 

3.0      Business Model

 

3.1              ITI will be the prime bidder. The interested vendor may either be joint bidders or simply sub vendors for their scope of work. The detailed model can be worked out later depending upon the capabilities of the interested parties as also the acceptability by the end customer.

 

 

4.0      Scope of the Project

 

The scope of the work includes but not limited to the following:

 

4.1              Working out technical solution including BoM.

 

4.2              Supply of equipment as per BoM.

 

4.3              Part installation and commissioning.

 

4.4            Training of ITI and Army engineers.

 

4.5              Acceptance of equipment/network by end customer, Army.

 

4.6              Warranty and AMC support.

 

5.0                  Terms and Conditions

 Interested vendors will have to unconditionally agree to the following terms and conditions and a written commitment to this effect is required to be given for consideration of their proposal.

 

5.0.1       Warranty support:  To be given as per terms and conditions of Army till the time  ITI enters into AMC with Army, irrespective of supply / installation of equipment.

 

5.0.2       AMC – Back to back comprehensive ‘AMC support as per deliverables required by Army’ to be provided & at the cost given by Army.  This support will be provided for a minimum of 10 years after warranty period is over.

 

5.0.3     All penalties, LDs attributable to equipment will be borne by the vendor pertaining to their part of supply.

 

 

 

6.0             The following documents are required to be submitted along with the EOI: 

 

6.0.1                   Company Profile

6.0.2                   Areas of interest within the scope of the project.

6.0.3                   Proposed solution particularly for switching solution.

5.0.4        Technical details of equipment proposed to be supplied.

6.0.5                 Details of similar project implementation (Customer details, project profile, Project executed, brief about project implementation) and performance certificate.

6.0.6                Implementation methodology. of the project

6.0.7               List of implementation partners and OEMs for various products

6.0.8               Detailed proposal on exit/termination mechanism during/end of contract period

6.0.9        Any legal case(s) against the company in the last 3 years. If yes, details

 

6.1               The company submitting the EOI and ITI shall have no liability in any manner in this regard or if it decides to terminate the process of short-listing for any reason whatsoever.

 

6.2         The EOI may be sent in sealed cover marked “ASCON IV – Technical Proposal” so as to reach the following address on or before 1400 hrs on 07th May, 2008

 

Additional General Manager(Def-P)

ASCON-IV  Group, R&D,

F-21, First Floor

ITI Bangalore Plant,

Doorvani Nagar,
BANGALORE – 560016

Phone:080 – 25662199, Fax: 080 –25650971

Email:uniyal_bgp@itiltd.co.in

Website:www.itiltd-india.com

 

6.3               Other Instructions / Information

 

6.3.1                   All questions relating to this EOI, technical or otherwise, must be in writing only and to the above-nominated point of contact.

6.3.2                   Bidder should provide their E-mail address(es) to enable us to reply to the bidder through email.

6.3.3                   Clarification/corrigendum if any will be made available in ITI website.

6.3.4                   ITI reserves the right to verify the credentials provided by the bidder.

 

6.4               Validity Time of this EOI Process

 

This process of Expression of Interest (EOI) will remain valid for short-listing purpose for a period of three months from the expiry of the last date specified for submission of response to EOI.

 

 

6.5               Disclaimer

 

This EOI is not an offer by ITI but an invitation for bidder response based on which the ITI will choose to short-list the bidders.

 

6.6               Confidentiality

 

6.6.1                  All information contained herein is confidential information. By accepting this material the recipient bidder agrees that the information will be held in confidence and will not be reproduced, disclosed or used in whole or in part without prior permission of ITI. Similarly, ITI will not divulge any information contained in the offers of the bidder’s without their consent.

 

6.6.2          ITI will evaluate the EOI based on the criteria set forth in this document, and will choose to short list qualified bidders.  Only the eligible bidders would then be invited by the ITI to make a presentation on their capabilities and their proposed methodology

 

6.6.3                   ITI Limited reserves the right to accept or reject in part or full any or all the EOIs without assigning any reasons therefore and without incurring any liability to the respondents.

         

Note: Copies of the supporting documents should be attached along with the proposal.