NIT (Notice Inviting Tender) For Procurement of HSM Cards, Various Software Items for CTS Southern & Western Grid. Allahabad Bank

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1 Addendum dated : NIT (tice Inviting Tender) For Procurement of HSM Cards, Various Software Items for CTS Southern & Western Allahabad Bank Ref. NO: HO/DIT/CTS/SOUTHWEST/18 DATE: Addendum dated : Page 1 of 6

2 Introduction The Bank had floated the NIT Ref. HO/DIT/CTS/SOUTHWEST/18 dated: for Procurement of HSM Cards, Various Software Items for CTS Southern & Western. As per the terms of the NIT, pre-bid queries were received from prospective bidders concerning various terms & conditions of the NIT. As an outcome of the deliberation held with bidders, on the queries received, and further increase in requirement this Addendum dated , containing response/amendments, as under, to the above NIT, is issued herewith. 1. Clarification against Queries Submitted by the bidders: 1 ITB Clause #2.1.Eligibility Criteria- their own office in Mumbai & Lucknow 2 ITB Clause #2.2. Eligibility Criteria- The bidder must have own support centers or should have back to back support arrangement with the OEMs at Mumbai & Lucknow with dedicated support engineers having required expertise in supporting the items as per schedule of requirement. 3 ITB Clause #2.4. Eligibility Criteria- The bidder should have supplied, installed and maintained the items, as Query/Amendment requested by the bidders Bidder will undertake an agreement with the OEM's Service provider. Services will be provided remotely from the OEM's available support location. Will this arrangement be agreeable to the bank instead of the criteria mentioned in the eligibility Criteria supplied, installed and maintained the items, as per Schedule of requirement, in at least their own office in Mumbai & Lucknow/New Delhi. The bidder must have own support centers or should have back to back support arrangement with the OEMs for Mumbai & Lucknow locations with dedicated support engineers (OEM/Bidder) having required expertise in supporting the items, as per schedule of requirement, so as ensure necessary uptime availability as per terms of the NIT supplied, installed and maintained items similar in nature i.e. any IT Security equipment viz. Firewall, IDS, Addendum dated : Page 2 of 6

3 per Schedule of requirement, in at least two Scheduled Commercial Banks in India during last three years 4 ITB Clause #2.6. Eligibility Criteria- The bidder should be ISO 9001 & certified company. #5- Performance Security #14.2- Payments shall be made promptly by the Purchaser but in no case later than sixty (60) days Query/Amendment requested by the bidders one Scheduled Commercial Banks in India during last three years Bidder is an ISO 9001 company. As the bidder is not directly providing any IT services request the bank to kindly remove the requirement of having an ISO Certification from the eligibility criteria The software under procurement is an underlying support application which does not function independently. Since the software functions only as a call on to the main application it is not possible to undertake any performance evaluation of the software. Therefore request the bank to remove the requirement of providing a performance guarantee. Payments shall be made promptly by the Purchaser but in no case later than Thirty (30) days of submission of the invoice/claim, supported IDPS, HSM cards etc. & Similar Software items, as per Schedule of requirement, in at least two organizations in India during last three years. The bidder should be ISO 9001 certified company Change Clarification: The Performance Security, to be submitted by the bidder, is required to protect Bank s interest with respect to uptime availability of the items supplied. (Downtime due to any other component of the setup will not be reckoned as downtime of the items supplied). Change Addendum dated : Page 3 of 6

4 Query/Amendment requested by the bidders of submission of the invoice/claim, supported by all required documents, by the Selected Vendor #14.4-Payment of Hardware Items #14.4- Payment of Software Licenses by all required documents, by the Selected Vendor. Request the bank to kindly change the payment terms to 100% release of payment to the bidder on delivery of the hardware, as the installation will be carried out by the OEM's service provider Request the bank to kindly change the payment terms to 100% release of payment to the bidder on delivery and installation of the software as there is no performance evaluation that can be undertaken since the software is an underlying support software. Change Change 2. Other Amendments / Rectifications: i. In view of increase in requirements, the schedule of requirements (BOM) stands revised as under: Revised schedule of requirement: Item Description 1. Hardware Revised Quantity Safenet - Luna HSM Card PCI-E 7000, PW-Auth, CL, SW 5.0, FW 4 2. Software (Optional) Addendum dated : Page 4 of 6

5 Item Description Revised Quantity IBM WebSphere Application Server - Express Edition, 8.0, 280 PVUs 2 IPSwitch WSFTP Server, Netal SL4NT Logger ii. Revised Price Schedule for Goods and Services: Amount in Rs. Item Description Qty Price for each Unit With 3 years Warranty/ATS Cost of AMC/ATS per year Total Cost 1. Hardware (A) (B) (C) (D =A x (B + 2xC)) Safenet -Luna HSM Card PCI-E 7000, 4 PW-Auth, CL, SW 5.0, FW 2. Software (Optional) IBM WebSphere Application Server 2 - Express Edition, 8.0, 280 PVUs IPSwitch WSFTP Server, Netal SL4NT Logger I) Grand Total (TCO for 5 years) 3 Hardware (Buyback) Qty (E) Unit Cost (F) Total Cost (G=ExF) II) Safenet HSM Card Ver III) Net Total Cost (I-II) iii. Other Terms & Conditions: 1 ITB Clause 3.7- Page no. 6, Para no. 8: Table of documents- Section Eligibility Criteria 2 Procurement- Page no. 22, Clause 5-Line no. 3 Performance Security as per NIT Formats required- Annexure-(4,5,6,7,8,13,18) and enclosures. -an amount of 10% of the order value of the equipment valid up to 30(Sixty) days after the- Formats required- Annexure- (4,5,6,7,13,18) and enclosures. -an amount of 10% of the order value of the equipment valid up to 60(Sixty) days after the- 3 Section-VI, Annexure Credential Letter from Credential Letter from the Addendum dated : Page 5 of 6

6 as per NIT 5, Page 39 Bank(s) (To be submitted on the letter head of the Concerned Scheduled Commercial Bank) Concerned organization (To be submitted on the letter head of the Concerned Organization ) iv. ITB Clause # 30.1, 30.2, 30.3, 31.1 & 31.2 be read as Clause #29.1, 29.2., 29.3, 30.1 & 30.2 respectively. Further as earlier published, bid submission schedule is as under: Last date and time for sale of NIT Last date and time for submission of Bids Date and time of opening of Technical-Bid , Hrs IST , Hrs IST , Hrs IST te: Bidders must do Tender Request latest by Hrs IST on (Last Date and Time of Sale of NIT) at the portal without the tender request process within the said schedule, the bidder will not be able to submit the bids. All other terms and conditions of the NIT document dated remain unchanged. Please treat this Addendum as an integral part of the NIT document issued. (Chief Manager-IT) Allahabad Bank, Head Office Kolkata (WB) Addendum dated : Page 6 of 6