India Trade Promotion Organisation, a Govt. of India enterprise has a local area network (LAN) with about 400 PCs, workstations and peripherals connected to the database, mail, NMS, anti-virus and proxy servers. Various application softwares are installed in the servers listed above which are maintained by a resident engineer from the company maintaining the various application softwares under an annual contract. The said contract is going to expire soon and ITPO is looking for a suitable company for the maintenance of applications softwares with the facility of two skilled resident software engineers.

The application softwares to be maintained are as below:

Sl.No.	Description	No. of Users
	Windows 2000 server SP4	5 Nos.
	ISA Server 2000 SP2	1 No.
	MS SQL Server 2000	1 No.
	i) Oracle 9i, ii) VB & iii) Crystal Report	1 each
	Lotus Domino 6.5	1 No.
	Lotus Notes 6.5	250 Nos.
	Mail Security for Domino (anti-virus)	1 No.
	Indica 2000 (Hindi Software)	400 Nos.
	Cisco PIX, IDS, Router configuration	1each
	Antivirus, anti-spamming, web-filtering software	400 Nos.
	File Tracking System software (NIC)	200 Nos.
	NMS	400 Nos.
	Software Maintenance of Router	1 No.

For the purpose of selecting a company for the maintenance of above software on annual basis with the services of a skilled resident engineer, General Manager, Computer Department, ITPO invites sealed bids in two-packet system (technical and financial) from ISO 9001-2000 certified companies.

Interested companies may quote their competitive prices in the tender form which may either be downloaded from our website www.indiatradefair.com or collected from the following address at a cost of Rs. 300/- in cash or through bank draft favouring India Trade Promotion Organisation payable at Delhi/New Delhi. Those downloading the tender form from the website may deposit the tender fee at the time of submitting the sealed bids.

Sealed bids along with bank draft for Rs. 5,000/- towards the earnest money deposit may be submitted at the address given below by 3.00 pm on or before 31ST March, 2009. The bids shall be opened in the presence of the representatives of the bidders who wish to be present.

• Cost of tender document : Rs. 300/- through demand draft or in cash

• Earnest money deposit : Rs. 5,000/- through demand/bank draft

• Last date for sale of tender : March 30th, 2009 (upto 05.00 pm)

document & clarifications

• Last date for submission of : March 31st, 2009 (upto 03.00 pm)

sealed bids

1. The maintenance of all the application softswares is a single order. As such. The job would be assigned to a single party which is the overall lowest bidding company found technically fit for the job

2. Bids are to be submitted in two parts separately viz. (1) Technical Bid and (2) Commercial Bid.

3. Tender document can be collected in person on payment of Rs. 300/- in cash or by a demand/bank draft for the said amount favouring India Trade Promotion Organisation, payable at Delhi. Tender form can also be downloaded from our website: www.indiatradefair.com and the tender cost deposited alongwith the Technical Bid in the form of DD.

4. Technical bid should be submitted in the prescribed format in sealed envelope with “Technical Bid for Maintenance of Application Softwares in the LAN environment ” clearly written on the envelope.

5. Bidders are requested to submit the following along with the Technical Bid:

   1. copies of certificates of VAT/TIN and Service Tax registration,

   2. copy of ISO 9001-2000 registration (please also mention the website URL in the relevant column of Technical Bid for verification)

   3. copies of EPF & ESI returns for the last three months,

   4. audited copy of latest balance sheet,

   5. proof of a minimum of five permanent qualified software engineers on the roll of the company. (please support by copies of EPF/ESI returns)

   6. earnest money deposit of Rs. 5,000/- in the form of bank/demand draft favouring India Trade Promotion Organisation, New Delhi

   7. demand/bank draft towards the tender document cost of Rs. 300/- if not already deposited with ITPO or the copy of the receipt from ITPO if tender fee has already been deposited

   8. Copies of job orders for related jobs from Central/State Govt. organizations issued to the bidding company during the last one year are also desirable.

6. Commercial bid contained in separate envelope and “Commercial Bid for Maintenance of Application Softwares in the LAN environment” written on the envelope should contain the unit price and the tax amount in respect of each deliverable. The percentage of tax applicable on the items should also be mentioned.

7. Rates quoted in the commercial bid should be valid at least for 45 days from the last date for submission of bids.

8. Clarifications, if any, may be sought from the above on or before March 30th, 2009 between 10.30 am and 05.00 pm.

9. ITPO reserves the right to reject any bid without assigning any reason.

10. Technical and commercial bids must be submitted latest by March 31st, 2009 (upto 03.00 pm) to:

Shri Prem Singh

Manager-IT, Computer Department

India Trade Promotion Organisation

Pragati Bhavan, Pragati Maidan

New Delhi – 110001

Tel: 011-23371952

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