Telecommunications Consultants India Ltd.

(A Government of India Enterprise)

TCIL Bhawan, GreaterKailash-1, New Delhi–110048

EOI Ref No. TCIL/13/SnTC/2017-18/EoI/BSNL-Wifi v1 dated September 28, 2017

Expression Of Interest (EoI) For Supply, installation, commissioning, operation and Maintenance of 25000
Public Wi-Fi Hotspots at BSNL’s rural Telephone Exchanges on turnkey basis

Telecommunications Consultants India Limited (TCIL) intends to participate in the tender for “Supply, installation,
commissioning, operation and Maintenance of 25000 Public Wi-Fi Hotspots at BSNL’s rural Telephone Exchanges on
turnkey basis”. In this regard, TCIL is looking a partner who is willing to participate in this work with TCIL on
exclusive basis.

Requirement is broadly outlined as below:

S.No. Name of the Item/ Work Estimated Quantity (Nos.)

1 Access Controllers (WLCs) and other At 5 locations
associated Wi-Fi Access system

2 Outdoor Access Points (APs) 25000

3 Installation Material including POE Switch, For 25000 Public Wi-Fi Hotspot locations at
UPS, cables, Poles/Masts etc. BSNL’s rural Exchanges

Interested parties may submit their Technical Offer in sealed envelope as asked below latest by 11.00 AM of
05.10.2017.

1. Pre-Qualification Criteria:
The bidder should meet the following pre-qualification criteria:

S. No Qualification Details Mandatory documentary evidence to

Criteria
1 Legal Entity The bidder must be a registered company
in India, registered under the Companies
Act 1956/2013.
2 Signatory The Authorized Signatory for signing the
Contract/Agreement with TCIL as a
partner and should be duly authorized by
Competent Authority to sign the
Contract/Agreement on their behalf.
3 Tax Registration & The party should have valid Sale tax
clearance registration, service tax registration PAN
and GSTIN.
4 Annual Turnover Should have a minimum annual turnover
of INR 100 Cr each year during the last 2
years (i.e. 2015-2016 and 2016-2017).
be Submitted
 Company Profile
 Memorandum & Articles of
Association
 Copy of Certificate of
Incorporation
 Power of attorney on Rs. 100/-
legal paper
 Copy of GSTIN
 Copy of Sale tax registration,
service tax registration & PAN
 Audited Profit and Loss
Statement and Balance sheets.
 CA Certificate with CA’s
Registration number/Seal.
Indicating required turnover.
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TCIL Bhawan, GreaterKailash-1, New Delhi–110048

5 Average Net Worth The bidder should have positive net-worth  CA Certificate with CA’s
and should be profit making in last three Registration number/Seal.
financial years (FY 14-15, 15-16 & 16-17).
6 Blacklisting The party should not have been blacklisted  Self-Declaration on company
by any of the Ministry/ Department of letter head.
Government of India/ State
Governments/PSUs and also neither
convicted nor is any criminal case pending
against it before any court of competent
jurisdiction.
7 Integrity Pact and The bidder shall have to sign the Integrity Signed copy of the Integrity Pact
MOU Pact with TCIL (enclosed as Annexure – A)
8 Required Technical The Bidder should have an overall annual Copies of supply order & Project
Capability of SI turnover of not less than INR 50 Crores completion / Phase completion
and OEM from IT/Networking Operations in each of report.
the last three financial years from Projects
in central government / state government /
PSU / Corporate Sector in India. (2013-14,
2014-15 and 2015-16 consecutively). In
addition bidder should have executed at
least two projects related to Wi-Fi/ AP
having installed atleast 1000 APs
cumulatively.

Proposed OEM should have successfully

supplied and installed a minimum of
15,000 Access Points on cumulative basis.
This experience requirement of minimum
15,000 APs can be met from multiple
clients. However out of these at least two
clients shall be with deployment of at least
3000 APs. Preference will be given to
OEM who have supply and installation
experience in BSNL, BBNL, etc. for such
projects
12 EMD INR 2,00,000/- (Rupees Two lacs only) in Original copy of DD/Banker’s
the form of DD/Banker’s Cheque/ Bank Cheque/BG valid for six months from
Guarantee (BG) from Nationalized/ the date of submission. It shall be
Scheduled Banks, drawn in favour of submitted along with the Technical
“Telecommunications Consultants India offer.
Limited” payable at New Delhi as per
format given at the end of this document.
The EMD should be issued from Delhi
branch of the above banks.

13 BG The selected bidder shall agree to submit
the required amount of BG (of Rs 2 Crore
or as applicable) to TCIL on back to back
basis for further participation in the client
tender.
Undertaking for submission of the
required amount of BG (Rs 2 Crore) to
TCIL on back to back basis for further
participation in the client tender. If the
selected bidder fails to submit the
required BG, the above EMD of Rs 2
lac will be forfeited.
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TCIL Bhawan, GreaterKailash-1, New Delhi–110048

14 Performance Bank The partner should be agreed to submit the
Guarantee required PBG to TCIL as and when asked
in the event of award of work.
15 Payment Terms Due payment of bidder shall be released as
and when the corresponding payment will
be received from client.
16 Compliance Bidders are advised to read complete
Statement Client tender document as indicated above
and its clarifications issued, if any,
thereafter and shall provide Technical
solution & Clause by clause compliance.
Self-declaration regarding the same on
the bidder’s Letter Head.
Self-declaration regarding the same on
the bidder’s Letter Head
Technical solution & Clause by clause
compliance of all clauses of the client
tender & latest amendment. Relevant
technical broachers should be also
submitted.

1. SCOPE OF WORK

1.1 Tender is for Supply, installation, Commissioning, Operation and Maintenance of 25000 Public Wi-Fi Hotspots
on BSNL’s rural exchanges of BSNL on turnkey basis. Circle wise distribution of quantity is given under
Section-3, Part-E of the tender.

1.2 The bidder shall be responsible for Supply, installation, Commissioning, Operation and Maintenance of WLCs
at 5 central locations and Wi-Fi hotspots spread across 25000 rural exchanges of BSNL as per quantity
distribution in the tender & work awarded to respective successful bidder.

1.3 The Access Systems (WLCs) and Hotspots to be supplied by bidder shall be integrated with BSNL’s existing
Wi-Fi Core System. Bidder shall be responsible for integration and interoperability of the supplied equipments
with existing Wi-Fi Core system of BSNL.
1.4 The Wireless LAN (WLC) supplied by the bidder shall be capable of managing multiple Access Points from
central location. WLC shall be able to provide the status for each Access Point being managed and shall be able
to remotely handle configuration, reboot, update of Firmware, backup of a group (one or more) of Access Points
according to a schedule.

1.5 Public Wi-Fi Hotspot shall be created at BSNL rural telephone exchange. Access Points (APs) shall integrate
with supplied WLC and create CAP/WAP tunnel as per standard CAP/WAP protocol.

1.6 All Wi-Fi user data shall reach to BSNL existing Wi-Fi Core network from where it shall be sent towards the
internet.

1.7 Further, Helpdesk for management, trouble ticketing, etc. of the deployed Access & hotspot equipments shall be
setup by the bidder. The supplier shall provide a portal for booking faults and share the user id and password to
all the node incharges /NOC/Management for booking/closure of dockets and taking out necessary reports.

1.8 All equipment, Hardware, Software Supplied shall be IPV6 compliant and shall be able to handle IPV4 and
IPV6 traffic transparently.

2. Schedule of Requirements (SOR)

1 Wi-Fi Access system Locations Total

1.1 Wireless LAN Controller (WLC) (In N+N redundancy)

1.1.1 Hardware 5 set
1.1.2 Software in 5 set
1.2 Element Management System (EMS) (In N+N redundancy)
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TCIL Bhawan, GreaterKailash-1, New Delhi–110048

1.2.1 EMS Hardware 5 Set

1.2.2 EMS Software 5 Set

1.3 CMS of UPS
1.3.1 Hardware 5 Set
1.3.2 Software 5 Set
1.4 Work stations 10
1.5 Installation & Commissioning Services

1.6 Comprehensive A.M.C including operation and maintenance

(yearly for 7 years)

1.7 Any other item

2. Hotspot Location equipment Total Quantity

2.1 Wi-Fi Access Points (Outdoor Type) 25000
2.2 Rack Enclosure for housing common equipments of hotspot locations 25000
(i.e. UPS, Battery, POE Switch etc.)
2.3 8 Ports POE Switch 25000
2.5 1-KVA UPS with 2 hours battery backup 25000
2.6 Installation & Commissioning Services (including installation material (Minimum 25% of
like pole/mast, cat 6 cable, power cable, patch cord ,pigtail , conduit, , equipment cost)
cable tray, clamp etc)
2.7 Comprehensive A.M.C including Operation and Maintenance (yearly (Minimum 10% of
for 7 years) equipment cost per
year)
2.8 Any other items (Items can be added
by the bidder
indicating quantity
and prices)

3. Bid Validity Period: The offered bid shall be valid for a period of 150 days from the date of submission of Bids.
4. Amendment of EoI: At any time prior to the last date for receipt of offers, TCIL, may, for any reason, whether
at its own initiative or in response to a clarification requested by a prospective Technology Provider, modify the
EoI document by an amendment. In order to provide prospective Technology Provider reasonable time to take
the amendment into account in preparing his/her offer, TCIL may, at their discretion, extend the last date for the
receipt of offers and/or make other changes in the requirements set out in the Invitation for EoI.
5. Bidders may collect tender document from TCIL Office by signing of Non Disclosure Agreement (NDA).
6. TCIL reserves the right to accept or reject any or all the bids without assigning any reason.

The interested parties should submit their technical & financial offer along with the relevant documents in support of
their claim, latest by 05.10.2017 at 11:00 hours at the below mentioned address.

Group General Manager (S&TC)

Telecommunications Consultants India Ltd.
(A Government of India Enterprise)
Room No. – 409, 4th Floor, TCIL Bhawan,
Greater Kailash-1, New Delhi – 110048
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(A Government of India Enterprise)

TCIL Bhawan, GreaterKailash-1, New Delhi–110048

Email: Sanjeeva.tcil@gmail.com / saurav.raj@tcil-india.com

Tel: 011-26202409 / 26202433
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(A Government of India Enterprise)

TCIL Bhawan, GreaterKailash-1, New Delhi–110048

Format of Bid Bond (EMD)

Whereas ……………………. (hereinafter called “the Bidder”) has submitted its bid dated …………… For the supply
of …………. Vide Tender No. ……………………….. dated …………… KNOW ALL MEN by these presents that
WE ……………………. OF ………………. Having our registered office at ………….. (hereinafter called “the Bank”)
are bound unto Telecommunications Consultants India Limited (hereinafter called “the Purchaser”) in the sum of Rs.
………………… for which payment will and truly to be made of the said Purchaser, the Bank binds itself, its
successors and assigns by these present.
THE CONDITIONS of the obligation are:
1. If the Bidder withdraws his bid during the period of bid validity specified by the Bidder on the Bid form or
2. If the Bidder, having been notified of the acceptance of his bid by the Purchaser during the period of bid
validity

(a) Fails or refuses to execute the Contract, if required; or

(b) Fails or refuses to furnish the Performance Security, in accordance with the instructions to Bidders.

We undertake to pay to the Purchaser up to the above amount upon receipt of its first written demand, without the
purchaser having to substantiate its demand, provided that in its demand, the purchaser will note that the amount
claimed by it is due to it owning to the occurrence of one or both of the two conditions, specifying the occurred
condition or conditions.
This guarantee will remain in force upto and including THIRTY (30) days after the Period of bid validity and any
demand in respect thereof should reach the Bank not later than the specified date/dates.

Signature of the Bank Authority.

Name

Name & Signature of witness Signed in Capacity of

Address of witness Full address of Branch

Tel No. of Branch

Fax No. of Branch

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Annexure - A
Telecommunications Consultants India Ltd.
(A Government of India Enterprise)

TCIL Bhawan, GreaterKailash-1, New Delhi–110048

Telecommunications Consultants India Ltd.
(A Government of India Enterprise)

TCIL Bhawan, GreaterKailash-1, New Delhi–110048

Telecommunications Consultants India Ltd.
(A Government of India Enterprise)

TCIL Bhawan, GreaterKailash-1, New Delhi–110048

Telecommunications Consultants India Ltd.
(A Government of India Enterprise)

TCIL Bhawan, GreaterKailash-1, New Delhi–110048

Telecommunications Consultants India Ltd.
(A Government of India Enterprise)

TCIL Bhawan, GreaterKailash-1, New Delhi–110048

Telecommunications Consultants India Ltd.
(A Government of India Enterprise)

TCIL Bhawan, GreaterKailash-1, New Delhi–110048

Telecommunications Consultants India Ltd.
(A Government of India Enterprise)

TCIL Bhawan, GreaterKailash-1, New Delhi–110048

Telecommunications Consultants India Ltd.
(A Government of India Enterprise)

TCIL Bhawan, GreaterKailash-1, New Delhi–110048