SECTION - I.

NOTICE INVITING TENDER

BHARAT BROADBAND NETWORK LIMITED

(A Government of India Enterprise)
Corporate Office
3rd Floor, CDOT Campus, Mandi Gaon Road, Chhatarpur, New Delhi 110030
[MM Section]

DETAILED NOTICE INVITING TENDER

Tender No: BBNL/MM/2013/001 Dated: 03-04-2013

On behalf of Chairman and Managing Director, Bharat Broadband Network Limited, online
digitally sealed open tenders, on rupee payment basis, are invited from the eligible bidders for Supply of
24 Fibre Metal Free Optical Fibre Cable with double HDPE Sheath (G.652D) and accessories. The
summary of requirement is given below:-

Package A Package F
Package B Package C Package D Package E
Type of North East &
Sl Northern Central Western Southern
equipment Western North East
India India India India
India India

24F Metal free Optical

Fibre Cable with 71257 73471 66713 69441 67873 56240
1
double HDPE Sheath Km Km Km Km Km Km
(G.652D Fiber)

2 Branch Joint Closures 18263 18831 17099 17798 17396 14414

3 Straight Joint Closures 18055 18617 16904 17596 17199 14250

4 Splitters 1:2 6919 7133 6477 6742 6590 5460

5 Splitters 1:4 6919 7133 6477 6742 6590 5460

6 Splitters 1:8 3458 3567 3238 3371 3294 2729

7 Termination Box 24F 36319 37449 34004 35394 34595 28666

8 FDMS (24F) 2352 2425 2202 2293 2240 1857

Patch Cords 5m with

9 152198 156929 142493 148318 144971 120125
SC-APC connector
BID SECURITY Rs. 5.19 Rs. 5.35 Rs. 4.86 Rs. 5.06 Rs. 4.94 Rs. 4.10
VALUE Crores Crores Crores Crores Crores Crores

The Packages are based on geographical distribution of States/ Union Territories, equalised for the
quantity requirements, as mentioned below:

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 • Package A: This package shall comprise of supply in District Headquarter or a location/
locations decided in the districts of North Western India comprising of J&K, Haryana,
Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Chandigarh, Rajasthan and Uttrakhand.

• Package B: This package shall comprise of supply in District Headquarter or a location/

locations decided in the districts of Northern India comprising of Western and parts of
Eastern Uttar Pradesh.

• Package C: This package shall comprise of supply in District Headquarter or a location/

locations decided in the districts of Central India comprising of Chhattisgarh, Madhya
Pradesh and parts of Eastern Uttar Pradesh.

• Package D: This package shall comprise of supply in District Headquarter or a location/

locations decided in the districts of Western India comprising of Gujarat, Maharashtra and
Dadra & Nagar Haveli, Daman & Diu.

• Package E: This package shall comprise of supply in District Headquarter or a location/

locations decided in the districts of Southern India comprising of Karnataka, Andhra
Pradesh, Tamil Nadu & Kerala, Lakshadweep and Puducherry.

• Package F: This package shall comprise of supply in District Headquarter or a location/

locations decided in the districts of Eastern & North Eastern India comprising of Bihar
Jharkhand, Odisha, West Bengal, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur,
Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura, Andaman & Nicobar.

2 Accessibility of Tender Document: The tender document for participating in E-tender shall
be available for downloading from 3rd April 2013 at 17:00 Hrs onwards from
https://www.tcil-india-electronictender.com. This link can also be visited from the website
of BBNL- http://www.bbnl.nic.in , by clicking Link “Procurement
Tender Notices” on the
home page. The Tender document shall not be available for download on or after its
submission/ closing date.

3 Demand Draft/ Bankers cheque of an amount of Rs. 10,500/- (Rupees Ten Thousand Five
Hundred only) including VAT, in favour of BHARAT BROADBAND NETWORK LIMITED,
drawn on any scheduled bank and payable at New Delhi, shall have to be submitted towards
cost of the tender along with the tender bid, failing which the tender bid will be rejected. Tender
document fees would be payable only once for bidding in any number of packages.

4 Sale of hard copy of tender Document: As BBNL has decided to use process of e-tendering
for inviting this tender, and so the hard copy of the tender will not be available for sale.

5 ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA:
5.1 The bidders should be Indian Companies registered to manufacture the tendered item in India
and have obtained clearance from Reserve Bank of India, wherever applicable. In addition
they should meet the following criteria: The Bidders should:

5.1.1 a) have got Type Approval Certificate (TAC) from Telecom Engineering Centre (TEC), New Delhi
or Technical Specification Evaluation Certificate (TSEC) from Quality Assurance Circle, BSNL,
Bengaluru, against the technical specifications of 24 Fibre Optical Fibre Cable (24F OFC)
mentioned in Section-IV-C of this document.

OR

5.1.1 b) have applied for TSEC in QF-103 Form to Quality Assurance Circle, BSNL, Bengaluru or in
Form-B to TEC, New Delhi for their product against the technical specifications of 24F OFC
mentioned in Section-IV-C of this document at least one day before the opening of the tender.
The registration number allotted for the TSEC purpose by QA Circle BSNL Bengaluru or for
TAC purpose by TEC New Delhi shall be submitted along with the bid. However only type
approved OFC as per above specifications, will be accepted, which will have to be obtained
before commencing supplies by the bidder.

5.1.2 have executed Commercial order(s) issued by DOT/ BSNL/ MTNL/ State Government/ PSUs/

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 Telecom Service Providers for the OFC (24 Fibre and above) for a minimum cumulative
quantity of 3,000 Route Km during the last three (3) financial years i.e. 2010-11, 2011-12 and
2012-13. Out of this quantity, a minimum of 1,000 Route Km should have been supplied
during the last financial year i.e. 2012-13. The bidders shall submit certificate(s) from the end
user(s) for the satisfactory working/ performance of the OFC supplied by them during the last
3 years for the quantities required under this clause.

5.2 All tendered items other than OFC i.e. accessories, etc. shall be type approved against the
respective technical specifications mentioned in Section IV-C of this bid document and the
valid TAC/ TSEC of the quoted items of accessories shall be submitted along with the bid. If
the bidder is not the manufacturer of such tendered items other than OFC, then the bidder
shall enter into legally binding agreement(s) with the manufacturers of the tendered items,
except OFC, and the copy of such agreement(s) shall be furnished with the bid.

5.3 Full quantity i.e. 100% of the Optical Fibre Cable and accessories to be supplied against this
tender shall be domestically manufactured and the minimum domestic Value Addition (VA) to
qualify as Domestically Manufactured Telecom Product shall be 45% for the financial year
2013-14. The formula for calculation of Value Addition for telecom products shall be as notified
by the Department of Electronics and Information Technology from time to time. The bidder
shall submit a self-certification certifying that the domestic Value Addition in the OFC and
accessories being supplied to BBNL is 45% or more.

5.4 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.

5.5 The bidders may bid for any one or more than one packages. There would be separate bid
security for each package.

6 Bid Security: The bidder shall furnish the Bid Security in one of the following ways.

a) Demand Draft/ Banker’s cheque in favour of BHARAT BROADBAND NETWORK

LIMITED payable at New Delhi and drawn on any scheduled bank.
b) Bank Guarantee in the format given in Section-VIII of the tender document in favour of
CMD BBNL, New Delhi from any scheduled bank, and valid for 180 days from the tender
opening date.

7 Last Date & Time of Submission of Tender bid: 8th May 2013 by 15:00 Hrs. 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.

8 Opening of Tender Bids: At 15:30 Hrs of this tender closing date i.e. 8th May 2013.

9 Place of opening of Tender bids: BBNL has adopted e-tendering process which offers a
unique facility for ‘Public Online Tender Opening Event (TOE)’. BBNL’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. Please refer clause 33 of Section
IV-A of Tender document for further instructions. However, authorized representatives of
bidders (i.e. Supplier organization), if desire so, can attend the TOE at BBNL Corporate
Office, 3rd Floor, CDOT Campus, Mandi Gaon Road, Chhatarpur, New Delhi – 110030,
where BBNL’s Tender Opening Officers would be conducting Public Online Tender Opening
Event (TOE).

10 The bidder is required to submit the tender document online at the e-tender portal. Tender
bids received after due time & date will not be accepted.

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

12 CMD, BBNL 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.

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13 The bidder shall furnish a declaration under his digital signature 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 E-tender Portal
(https://www.tcil-india-electronictender.com)

14 In 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. All documents submitted
in the bid offer should be preferably in English. In case the certificate viz experience,
registration etc. is issued in a 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.

15 All computer generated documents should be duly attested/ signed by the issuing
organisation.

16 Tentative date/ time schedule for various activities is as mentioned below:

Tentative Date Time Activity

03-04-2013 Issue of NIT
03-04-2013 17:00 hrs Accessibility of Tender Document
16-04-2013 11:00 hrs Vendor Training
18-04-2013 11:00 hrs Vendor Conference
23-04-2013 17:00 hrs Last Date & Time of seeking clarifications
08-05-2013 15:00 hrs Last Date & Time of Submission of bids
08-05-2013 15:30 hrs Opening of Tender Bids

General Manager (Material Management)

BBNL Corporate Office, New Delhi

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