RailTel invites tender for supply of HDPE duct and Optic Fibre connectivity to all flag stations at Sealdah Division of Eastern Railway

RailTel Corporation of India has invited tenders for Supply of HDPE Duct, Excavation of Trenches laying of HDPE Duct, backfilling, blowing/pulling of OFC through HDPE duct, splicing/ jointing, termination and testing of OFC cable with other associated work for Optic Fibre connectivity to all flag stations, Sealdah Division, Eastern Railway.

  • Tender Reference Number: RCIL_ER_2022-23_1403
  • Name of Work: Supply of HDPE Duct, Excavation of Trenches laying of HDPE Duct, backfilling, blowing/pulling of OFC through HDPE duct, splicing/ jointing, termination and testing of OFC cable with other associated work for Optic Fibre connectivity to all flag stations, Sealdah Division, Eastern Railway.
  • Completion Period: 06 Months
  • Estimated Cost: INR 2,58,28,885 Crore
  • EMD: INR 5,16,600 Lakh
  • Document Download / Sale Start Date: 12th July,2022 
  • Document Download / Sale End Date: 02nd August, 2022 
  • Bid Submission Start Date: 19th July,2022
  • Bid Submission End Date: 02nd August, 2022

General:

  • Contractors are allowed to make payments against this tender towards tender document cost and earnest money only through only payment modes available on IREPS portal like net banking, debit card, credit card etc.
  • Manual payments through Demand draft, Banker cheque, Deposit receipts, FDR etc. are not allowed.

Eligibility:

  • All documents uploaded and remarks / confirmation entered by the bidders against any eligibility condition shall be opened as part of technical bid only.
  • For General Bidders: The tenderer must have received contractual payments in the previous three financial years and the current financial year up to the date of opening of tender, at least 150% of the advertised value of the tender.
  • The tenderers shall submit Certificate to this effect which may be an attested Certificate from the concerned department / client or Audited Balance Sheet duly certified by the Chartered Accountant/Certificate from Chartered Accountant duly supported by Audited Balance Sheet.
  • For Startup Bidders (recognized by Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion Ministry of Commerce & Industry): The tenderer should have received contractual payments in the previous three financial years and the current financial year up to the date of opening of tender, at least 50% of the advertised value of the tender.
  • The tenderers shall submit Certificate to this effect which may be an attested Certificate from the concerned department / client or Audited Balance Sheet duly certified by the Chartered Accountant/Certificate from Chartered Accountant duly supported by Audited Balance Sheet.

 Technical Criteria:

  • For General Bidders: The bidder should have successfully completed at least one similar work, costing not less than the amount equal to 35% of advertised value of work, in the last 5 years through a work contract.
  • For fulfilment of above, Work Experience Certificate issued by Govt. Department /PSU /Reputed telecom firm/ Telco shall be considered. Bidders should submit certificates of satisfactory performance along with tender. Bidders should submit certificates of satisfactory performance as per Form No.2 attached along with tender.
  • For Startup Bidders (recognized by Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion Ministry of Commerce & Industry): The bidder should have executed order during the last 5 preceding 5 financial years as on opening of bid, as per following: (A)Single Order of atleast 35% of Tendered value. or (B)Two Orders of atleast 20% each of tendered value. or (C)Three Orders of atleast 15% each of tendered value.

Similar Works:

  • Works similar to the scope of work as contained in this tender shall mean Any OFC laying work and/or OFC maintenance work to be considered as similar in nature of work.

About RailTel:

  • RailTel, a “Mini Ratna (Category-I)” Central Public Sector Enterprise under Ministry of Railways, is one of the largest neutral telecom infrastructure providers in the country owning a Pan-India optic fibre network covering several towns & cities and rural areas of the Country.
  • Along with a strong and reliable network of 61000+ RKM of Optic fibre, RailTel has two MeitY empaneled tier III data centres as well. With its Pan India high-capacity network, RailTel isworking towards creating a knowledge society at various fronts and has been selected for implementation of various mission-mode projects for the Government of India in the telecom field.
  • RailTel offers a bundle of services like, MPLS VPN, Telepresence, leased line, TowerCo-location, Data centre services etc. RailTel is also working with the Indian Railways to transform railway stations into digital hubs by providing public Wi-Fi at railway stations across the country and 6100+ stations are live with RailTel’s RailWire Wi-Fi.

The complete documents can be downloaded from https://www.ireps.gov.in


Source: RailTel -Tender | Image Credit (representational): RailTel