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Replies (Vol. II) to Queries to Special Conditions and Commercial Conditions
of the Tender No. MM/TX/092007/000339 Issued on 05.09.2007 ( ANNEXURE-A)
Name of Section Clause Description of Clause Query Reply
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Bid Doc Section- 2.1.3.1 The supplies for the equipment in Phase-II can be As per this clause in Phase II Due to indegenisation no separate quote is
IV Part-II made only after manufacturing of hardware and / or Hardware/Software of any one core required for indegeneuos items in Phase-II ,
Software of at least one core item has been started by component needs to be manufactured in however price will not be higher than the
the bidder company. India. Please clarify that for Phase II local quote for imported one inclusive of all taxes.
Manufacturing whether bidder has to
provide a separate quote under
indegeneous items?
Section- 2.7 The Bidder shall be required to quote for the supply of Through this clause we understand BSNL Two technologies will be considered to be
IV Part-II necessary hardware and software for IP TAX wish to procure NGN solutions of two the same if the manufacturer of Softswitches
equipment for a total capacity of 4868 Kilo Circuits different technologies (L1 & L2) so as to and Trunk Media Gateways in two separate
(DS0s) to be deployed in BSNL network as defined in reduce dependency on one technology. In bids is same. In case the two bids are found
the Scope of Project and Schedule of Requirement in order to achieve this it is requested that to be of the same technology, the purchaser
this document. Only one bid for each technology will NMS shall be excluded from the list of core reserves the right to reject both the bids.
be accepted. Two technologies will be considered to equipment for the purpose of this clause
be the same if all the core equipments are of same only as it is easily possible for an OEM /
make and model. Bidder to quote same NMS as two different
makes / Models in its L1 & L2 bid. Thus we
request you to revised the clause as
“The Bidder shall be required to quote for
the supply of necessary hardware and
software for IP TAX equipment for a total
capacity of 4868 Kilo Circuit (DS0s) to be
deployed in BSNL Network as defined in the
scope of Project and Schedule of
Requirement in this document. Only one bid
for each technology will be accepted. Two
technologies will be considered to be the
same if Softswitches, Signalling Gateways
and Trunk Media Gateways are of same
make and model.”

Bid Doc Section- 2.7.3 The bidder has to provide a list of all spares that Please specify the requirement of spares As mentioned in the Clause, the bidder has
IV Part-II would be required based upon the MTBF and MTTR quantity, if is based on MTBF and MTTR to provide a unified list of all spares. Quoting
figures. If later on any spares are required which is figures, how many years the spare provided Maintenance Spares per site is not required.
not included in this list, the same would have to be should supply for? Accordingly, 'S. No.' 'J' in High Level Bill of
supplied free of cost to the purchaser. The bids will be Material should be read as deleted and a
uniformly loaded by 5% of the arithmetically corrected new 'S. No.' 'V' with 'Item Description' as
bid value towards the requirement of spares. 'List of Maintenance Spares' is to be inserted
at the end of the High Level Bill of Material
for the purpose of bidding.

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of the Tender No. MM/TX/092007/000339 Issued on 05.09.2007 ( ANNEXURE-A)
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Section- 2.11 a) The L-1 and L-2 bidders shall make equipment i) There are two TEC GR's availaible for i) & ii) Please refer to List of Specifications
IV Part-II physically available as per validation configuration NMS. One is NETWORK MANAGEMENT given in Section VI of Bid Document.
specified in the Model Technical Specifications for the SYSTEM (NMS) FOR IP BASED TAX iii) to vi) The clause is clear.
purpose of validation after issuance of PO-1 (supply of NETWORK, No. GR/NMS-01/01 JULY 2003 The clause is clear. However, it is clarified
equipment for validation purpose) by the purchaser and the other is No. D/NMS-02/01 FEB that EMS shall provide open northbound
and acceptance of the same by the bidder and 2005. Our assumption is that we need to interfaces such as TMF 8.14 (version 3.0)
tendering of 5% PBG. The L-1 bidder will be required refer to the 2005 GR. Kindly Confirm. CORBA, XML, SNMP v2 upgradeable to
to provide complete EMS and NMS solution, whereas ii) There are two TEC GR's availaible for SNMP v3, Transaction Language 1 (TL1)
the L-2 bidder will be required to provide EMS solution NMS. One is NETWORK MANAGEMENT etc. for seamless inter working with other
only. EMS for Network Elements will support SYSTEM (NMS) FOR IP BASED TAX vendor’s EMS and smooth integration with
northbound open interfaces like SNMP/CORBA/XML NETWORK, No. GR/NMS-01/01 JULY 2003 NMS/OSS for Alarm forwarding, Routing
for integration with the NMS. Open interfaces and the other is No. D/NMS-02/01 FEB data configuration, Performance data,
supported by EMS should provide fault, topology and 2005. Our assumption is that we need to Service provisioning. The southbound
performance statistics. The bidders will be required to refer to the 2003 GR as mentioned in the interface of the EMS towards network
provide API/MIBs to facilitate integration with NMS. MTS document. Kindly Confirm. elements will be such that it has support for
iii) Regarding Configuration management of the Topology Management, Configuration
the NMS, our understanding is that it shall Management, Accounting Management,
be done by the respective EMS's of L1 and Inventory Management, Fault Management,
L2 Bidders and not at the NMS level. Please Performance Management, Operation &
confirm. Maintenance, System and Security
iv) Regarding Provisioning requirements, Management.
our understandfing is that it shall be done at
the NMS level. Please confirm. Please also
confirm ,what kind of services will be
provisioned, and the estimated volume.

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v) Regarding Provisioning, activation ,
inventory and Configuration management of
the NMS, our understanding is that it shall
be done by the respective EMS's of L1 and
L2 Bidders and not at the NMS level. This is
the most practical and cost effective solution
since IP TAX network does not undergo
frequent changes in configuration, inventory
and provisioning are well planned. Please
confirm. vi) If we refer to the TEC GR
of 2003, there is no requirement of
provisioning, activation and inventory. In
fact considering that IP TAX is not a
frequent change oriented network like broad
band or MPLS Edge, we strongly feel that
provisioning, inventory , configuration,
security and accounting should be done at
respective element management system
level. It is only Fault and performance which
will be aggregated from both eMS ( of L1 &
L2 bidder) and provide a single NMS.

vii) We are assuming that IPTAX NMS vii) Refer Clause 2.28 of Section IV Part II.
need not be integrated with NIB or CDR or
GSM OSS- BSS Network since IP TAX
NMS is not affected in any major way by the
changes in OSS - BSS of these network
segments and vice versa. Is our
understanding correct?

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Section Maintenance Spares (One Lot per site) Complete equipment set at every site is As mentioned in Clause 2.7.3 Section IV of
XI asked as Maintenance Spares. This will Bid Document, the bidder has to provide a
increase the cost of BOM. All the unified list of all spares. Quoting
equipments are already loaded with Maintenance Spares per site is not required.
redundancy as asked in tender. We suggest Accordingly, 'S. No.' 'J' in High Level Bill of
BSNL to please ask for 5% spares against Material should be read as deleted and a
the total quantity of equipments/ cards new 'S. No.' 'V' with 'Item Description' as
supplied as specified in Clause 2.7.3 of 'List of Maintenance Spares' is inserted at
Section IV Part II. the end of the High Level Bill of Material for
the purpose of bidding.

Section LAN Switch (1+1) Pair (To bequoted as per Bidder's Please confirm whether 332 is the total LAN Switches at NOC sites and sites above
XI Calculation;figures shown here are tentative) number of LAN switches required or 332 is 40 KC TMG capacity are to be quoted in
the number of pairs pairs.

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