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1.   PRICE APPLICABILITY    Prices in the Purchase Order shall remain valid for the period of delivery schedule or  extended delivery schedule  In case of delayed supplies  after delivery period  the  advantage of reduction of taxes duties shall be passed onto the Purchaser and no benefit  of increase will be permitted to the Supplier     STANDARDS    The goods supplied under the contract shall conform to the standards mentioned in the  Technical Specifications     PATENT RIGHTS    The Supplier shall indemnify the Purchaser against all third party actions claims of  infringement of patent  trademark or industrial design rights arising from the use of  goods or any part thereof     PERFORMANCE SECURITY    Within 10 days of the Supplier   s receipt of Letter of Intent  LOI  P O   the Supplier  shall furnish a Performance Security for the amount of 10  of the contract P O value     The proceeds of the Performance Security shall be payable to the Purchaser as  compensation for any loss resulting from the Supplier   s failure to complete its  obligations under the contract     The Performance Bond shall be in the form of Bank Guarantee issued by a Scheduled  Bank situated in India and in the form provided by TCIL     The Performance Bond will be discharged by the Purchaser after completion of the  Supplier   s obligations including any warranty obligations under the contract     As regards validity of PBG  please refer to Special Conditions of the contract  Section   4      INSPECTIO
2.  All necessary training materials shall be provided by the Contractor  Each trainee  shall receive individual copies of all technical manuals and all other documents  used for training     c  Class materials  including the documents sent before the training courses as well  as class handouts  shall become the property of Employer  Employer reserves  the right to copy such materials  but for in house training and use only     d  Hands on training shall utilize equipment similar to that being supplied under the  contract     e  For all training courses  the travel and per diem expenses will be borne by the  owner     f  The Contractor shall quote training prices individually for each of the courses  indicated in appendices     g  Employer will have the option to cancel any or all training courses  In the case of  cancellation  the rate quoted against the respective course will not be paid to the  Contractor     8 9 1 FO Communication System Training Course Requirements     i    This training shall provide a functional description of the FO Cabling system   communication equipment  sub systems and network  and a discussion of the  fail over in the network  The training shall include an overview of the network  configuration and indicate the functional responsibilities of all major subsystems  including the network monitoring system hardware and software  High level  hardware configuration block diagrams and network sub network block flow    RFO SDH 41E doc Page 79 of 83    diagr
3.  Rack Colour and Finish        RFO SDH 41E doc Page 69 of 83       88  Temperature range  Guaranteed performance  EC  Operation without damage   Storage  transport     Relative humidity Minimum     Maximum    Altitude Installed  im  Transport storage        a Describe Ventilation requirements      o0    Describe dust proofing provisions           93  Electromagnetic compatibility  List standards  amp  severity levels        RFO SDH 41E doc Page 70 of 83    DATA REQUIREMENTS SHEETS for  SDH EQUIPMENT    POWER SUPPLY UNIT  DC DC CONVERTER     Manufacturer        Model           Nominal supply voltage     Power supply variation  g Guaranteed performance    Vde  Operation without damage   Watt  Ye    N aes    3   potai o    Whether 220 Vac mains operation capability  inbuilt    List derived DC voltages  pve   o    5   Total power consumption  Fully equipped  incl  service channels  Unprotected terminal   1 1 Protected terminal   7  1 1 APS protection provided     MTBF of power supply unit   Ultimate power delivery capacity Watt    10   Are the following protections provided   Overvoltage    Yes No  Undervoltage   Overload   Reverse polarity   Other  specify         11   Whether proposed equipment has distributed   Yes No  Power Supply       Provide AC  amp  DC power supply  requirement for each of the proposed  equipment        m   N       RFO SDH 41E doc Page 71 of 83    DATA REQUIREMENTS SHEETS for  SDH EQUIPMENT    MISC    Manufacturer       Model           Provide Procedure t
4.  Terminals   Data communication between NEs  Local Consoles and TMN Processor s   Routers Bridges    Expansion Capabilities    2 3 3 Management Functions    The TMN shall support following Management functions     2 3 3 1 Configuration Management    Configuration management is concerned with management  display  and control of the  network configuration  Minimum specific requirements that shall be satisfied include  the following     a     d     Provide tools to establish and maintain the backbone topology and  configuration information and provide graphical maps depicting the  configurations     Gather descriptive information about the current configuration of the  equipment  provide operator displays  and prepare reports     Provide tools for planning  establishing  and changing the static equipment  configuration  Provide for changes to the equipment configuration in  response to equipment failures  planned upgrades  and operator requests  to take equipment offline for testing     Provide verification testing to support new equipment installation     2 3 3 2 Fault Management    Fault management is concerned with detecting  diagnosing  bypassing  directing  service restoral  and reporting on all the backbone network equipment  system  and links  Minimum specific requirements that shall be satisfied include the  following     a     Display equipment status in a consistent fashion regardless of the source  of the data on a graphical topological  map type display  Status shall
5.  The techno commercial offers shall be opened at 1600 hrs  on 12 02 2009     TCIL reserves the right to accept or reject any or all the offers without assigning any reason      D  MANNA   Group General Manager  MM   RFO SDH 41E doc Page 3 of 83    Annexure A    ASSESMENT REPORT    The following documents are required for this assessment report      i  Registration License factory as evidence of being a manufacturer    ii  Organization chart with name and qualification of key persons    iii  List of plant and machinery    iv  List of testing equipment to carry out all the route tests in     house alongwith  their calibration status    v  List of raw material  bought out items with sourcing details    vi  List of supplies made to other utilities in last three years    vii  Third party approval  if any  viz  ISO  BIS     viii  Copy of quality manual  if ISO certified     ix  Pollution clearance wherever applicable    x  Sanctioned load and backup power shed area storage area    xi  Formats for RM  in process and acceptance testing    xii  Type test approvals conducted in last 5 years  if applicable    xiii  Performance certificates from customers    xiv  Company brochure product catalogues    xv  Photographs of factory  plant  amp  machinery and testing facilities     Note   Requirements in bold are must requirements to be provided by the Bidder      END OF SECTION 1     RFO SDH 41E doc Page 4 of 83    SECTION   2    Reference No   TCIL 15 914 1 09 MM 41 E January 21  2009    2 
6.  be  displayed through the use of colours on links and nodes as well as through  text     RFO SDH 41E doc Page 32 of 83    e     Obtain status and detect faults through periodic polling  processing of  unsolicited alarms and error events  and periodic testing for connectivity     Maintain an alarm summary of unacknowledged alarm events on the  management station display and maintain a log of all received alarms  The  operator shall be able to acknowledge and clear alarms individually and as  a group  The use of alarm correlation techniques is encouraged to  minimize the proliferation of alarms caused by a single  common event  All  alarms shall be configurable as critical alarms  major alarms and minor  alarms with different colours like red  amber orange  blue etc  The normal  condition shall be green  preferably  in colour     Provide the capability to diagnose and isolate failures through analysis of  error and event reports and through the use of both on line and off line  diagnostic tests and display of monitored data     The criteria for failover shall be configurable as automatic failover to  redundant equipment where possible and through operator initiated  actions where automatic failover is not possible  The status of fail over  shall be reported to TMN     Track network equipment failure history     2 3 3 3 Performance Management    Performance management is concerned with evaluation of the use of network  equipments and their capability to meet performance objecti
7.  calculations shall be calculated based upon the following  criteria      1  Fibre attenuation  The fibre attenuation shall be taken to be the guaranteed  maximum fibre attenuation i e  0 21 dB Km  1550nm and 0 35 dB km  1310nm      2  Splice loss  Minimum 0 05 dB per splice  One splice shall be considered for every  2 kms      3  Connector losses  Losses due to connectors shall be considered to be minimum  1 0 dB per link      3  Equipment Parameters  The equipment parameters to be considered for link  budget calculations shall be the guaranteed    End of Life  EOL     parameters  In case   the End of Life parameters are not specified for the SDH equipment  an End of Life  Margin of at least 2 dB shall be considered      4  Optical path Penalty  An optical path penalty of at least 1 dB shall be considered to  account for total degradations due to reflections  inter symbol interference  mode  partition noise and laser chirp     RFO SDH 41E doc Page 29 of 83     5  Maintenance Margin  A maintenance margin of at least 2 5 dB 100Km shall be  kept towards cabling  repair splicing  cable ageing and temperature variations etc      6  Other losses  Other losses  if any required specifically for system to be supplied  shall also be suitably considered      7  Dispersion  The fibre dispersion shall be taken to be the guaranteed maximum  dispersion i e 20 ps nm Km  1550 nm and 6 ps nm Km   1310 for DWSM fibres      8  Bit Error Rate  The link budget calculations shall be done for a BER
8.  days of the date of occurrence thereof   neither party shall be reason of such an    eventuality    be entitled to terminate this  contract nor shall either party have any claim or damages against the other in respect of  such non performance or delay in performance and deliveries under the contract  The  contract shall be resumed as soon as practicable after such    eventuality    has come to an  end or ceased to exist  In case of any dispute  the decision of CMD  TCIL  shall be final  and conclusive  provided further that if the performance in whole or part of any  obligation under this contract is prevented or delayed by reason of any such eventuality  for a period exceeding 60 days  either party may at its option  terminate the contract   Provided also that if the contract is terminated under this clause the Purchaser shall be  at liberty to take over from the Supplier at a price to be fixed by the Purchaser  which  shall be final  all unused  undamaged and acceptable materials  bought out components  and other stores in the course of manufacture which may be in the possession of the  Supplier at the time of such termination  or such portion thereof as the Purchaser may  deem fit except such material  as the Supplier may  with the concurrence of the  Purchaser  elect to retain     TERMINATION FOR DEFAULT    3 18 1 The Purchaser  may  without prejudice to any other remedy for breach of contract  by    3 18 2    written notice of default  sent to the Supplier  terminate th
9.  done as defined in IEC Publication 68 2 2  test method   with  the following specifications      1     Test Duration  The equipment is started up as soon as thermal  equilibrium has been reached and operated for 96 hours  Its  performance is checked during the test and after the test as soon as the  thermal equilibrium is reached at the room temperature  Post test      RFO SDH 41E doc Page 43 of 83     2  Degree of Severity  Test shall be done at 55  C      3    Acceptance Criteria  Degradation of performance is allowable during the  test  however there shall be no degradation of performance in the post   test      e  Damp Heat Test    Damp heat testing reveals aging with respect to the humidity level and applies  basically to electronic equipment  This test shall be done as defined in IEC Publication  68 2 3 with the following specifications      1  Test Duration  The equipment is started up as soon as thermal  equilibrium has been reached and operated for 10 days  Its performance  is checked during the test      2  Acceptance Criteria  The equipment shall meet the specified  requirement and there shall not be any degradation in BER      f  Temperature Variation Test    Temperature variation testing shall be as per IEC Publication 68 2 14  Gradual  Variations  Method Nb   The equipment shall be powered on and various parameters  shall be monitored continuously during the test period      1  Number of cycles required is five  5     2    The degree of severity  temperature  T
10.  enclosure frame  skin or chassis mounting hardware as part of the  earthing grounding networks  is not acceptable      4  The safety earth network shall be connected to  earth ground  at the safety  earth stud  The earth stud connection shall be sized for an external earthing cable  equipped with a 2 0 solid copper lug secured metal to metal with star washers   Primary AC feeds and distribution within enclosures  requires earthing wire connection  to the safety earth stud      5  The safety earth and signal ground networks shall be inter connected  only at the safety earth stud and signal ground stud     At each location  the owner shall extend the existing station earth to the equipment  room  The Contractor shall be responsible for determining the suitability of existing  station earth for the equipment to be supplied under this contract     The Contractor is responsible for providing all required earthing grounding cable and  installation  Cabinet  Enclosure  and equipment safety earthing and signal grounding  shall be subject to the Employer   s approval     The Contractor shall be responsible for providing earthing systems including earth  pits  earthing studs and earthing net etc  as required  wherever the existing station  earthing is found to be unsuitable for equipment being provided by the Contractor  In  case new earthing studs are provided  the contractor shall be responsible for  connection of new studs to the existing studs if any     2 7 7 Interconnections  Al
11.  from other suppliers at the cost and risk of the Supplier and the excess money  will be recovered from any dues of the party     For late supplies  as liquidated damages  a sum equal to 0 5  of the price of any goods  not delivered or total order value in case where part delivery is of no use to a Purchaser   for a week or part of a week subject to maximum limit of 5  of the total order will be  recovered from the Supplier  The Purchaser also reserves the right to cancel the order in  such cases and forfeit the EMD Performance Bank Guarantee and may also debar the  Supplier for future purchases     RFO SDH 41E doc Page 15 of 83    3 10 4    3 11    3 11 1    3 11 2    3 11 3    3 11 4    3 11 5    3 12    3 12 1    LD can be recovered from any dues of the Supplier   ARBITRATION    In case of Foreign Bidders     Any dispute or differences arising out of the contract which cannot be amicably settled  between the supplier and the purchaser shall be decided as per arbitration rules of  International Chamber of Commerce  Geneva  For arbitration  the venue shall be  Geneva        In case of indigenous Bidders    In the event of any dispute arising between TCIL and the Supplier in any matter  covered by this contract or arising directly or indirectly therefrom or connected or  concerned with the said contract in any manner of the implementation of any terms and  conditions of the said contract  the matter shall be referred to the Chairman  amp   Managing Director  TCIL who may hims
12.  of 10          The bidders shall determine the total link loss based on the above criteria and shall  submit the system design  including link budget calculation  and BoQ for SDH  equipment     For finalising the FOTS system design  amp  BOQ  similar methodology shall be adopted  taking into account fibre attenuation  dispersion and splice loss determined during the  detailed engineering  Accordingly  additions and deletions from the contract shall be  carried out based on unit rates indicated in the contract     2 2 2 2 Link Performance    The Link performance for ES  SES and BER for the fibre optic links shall correspond  to National Network as defined in ITU T G 826  Further  the packet loss shall not be  more than one percent in any of the Ethernet circuits of the offered system     2 2 2 3  FODP to SDH Equipment Connectivity    The Contractor shall be responsible for connectivity between the FODP and the SDH  equipment  The Contractor shall provide FC PC coupled patch cords of suitable length  The  patch cord length between the FODP  amp  equipment rack shall be suitably protected from  rodents  abrasion  crush or mechanical damage otherwise by flexible conduits     The patch  cord return loss shall be equal to or better than 40 dB and insertion loss  equal to or less than 0 5 dB     2 3 TELECOMMUNICATION MANAGEMENT NETWORK    The Contractor shall provide a Telecommunication Management Network System   TMN  also referred as NMS to provide operational support for the FOT
13.  of error and  event reports and through the use of both on line and off line diagnostic tests and  display of monitored data     The criteria for failover shall be configurable as automatic failover to redundant  equipment where possible and through operator initiated actions where automatic  failover is not possible  The status of fail over shall be reported to TMN     Track network equipment failure history   E doc Page 56 of 83    2 9 3 3 Performance Management    Performance management is concerned with evaluation of the use of network equipments and  their capability to meet performance objectives  Minimum specific requirements that shall be  satisfied include the following     a  Provide support for an operator to initiate  collect  and terminate performance metrics  under both normal and degraded conditions  For example  BER of each link together  with other data measured at each node  shall be available on operator request    b  Monitor point to point  end to end errors signal quality and history  Provide operator  controls to monitor performance of specified events  measures  and resources   Specifically provide displays to permit the operator to     1   Select deselect network equipments  events  and threshold parameters to monitor  2  Set monitoring start time and duration or end time   3  Set monitoring sampling frequency   4  Set change threshold values on selected performance parameters   5  Generate alarm events when thresholds are exceeded     6  Set multiple
14.  procedure  The selection process for conducting the type tests shall ensure  that samples are selected at random  For optical fibres  Fibre Optic cables PLB HDPE  pipe  at least three reels drums of each type of fibre cable PLB HDPE pipe proposed  shall be offered for selection  samples shall be selected randomly from one or more of  the reels drums  For telecom equipment and Joint box at least three samples of each  type proposed shall be offered for selection out of which one sample shall be selected   The type approval certificate shall clearly indicate the type grade source of HDPE raw  material  and the construction of the pipe i e  two layer or homogenous  Bulk  manufacture and supply of the above materials shall start only after issue of type  approval  List of tests and Procedures for type testing for specific items are described  in relevant section of technical specifications     8 6 Factory Acceptance Tests    Factory acceptance tests shall be conducted on randomly selected final assemblies of  all equipment to be supplied  Visual inspection shall be carried out on 100  basis for  all the equipment items offered  Factory acceptance testing shall be carried out on  SDH equipment  NMS  Underground fibre optic cable  Joint box  PLB HDPE pipe   FODP and all other items for which price has been identified separately in the Bid  Price Schedule     Equipment Material shall not be dispatched to the Employer until required factory tests  are completed satisfactorily  all v
15.  requirement is specified in the relevant section the  same shall apply for the equipment  system defined in that section  The contractor  shall also supply two sets of User manuals guides O amp M manuals manufacturer   s  catalogues for all the hardware  amp  software supplied under the contract which shall be  in addition to the one set each at all the locations where the System has been  installed  The user manual shall at minimum include the principle of operation  block  diagrams  troubleshooting and diagnostic and maintenance procedures  Considering  all the components of the project briefly the following documents drawings shall be  required under the project  The user manual shall be oriented towards system user  and system deployed under the Project     1  Survey report   2  System Functional Description Document   3  Data Requirement Sheets  DRS   amp  Drawings   4  Link budget calculations   5  Manufacturing Quality Plan  amp  Field Quality Plan   6  Bill of Quantities   7  Test schedule   RFO SDH 41E doc Page 82 of 83    8    9    10   11   12   13   14   15   16   17   18   19   20   21   22   23     Type test procedures  Type test  FAT  amp  SAT   Test reports  Type test  FAT  amp  SAT   Equipment Manuals  amp  Standard Documents  Software Licences   Installation drawings   Schematic drawing   Numbering  Marking  labelling Document  Channel Routing   Synchronisation Plan   Configuration Diagrams   TMN Description Document   Installation  amp  jointing procedure 
16.  system shall have  provision for addition of at least two remote operator consoles  The TMN hardware shall be so  designed that failure of a single processor  amp  component  router  switch  converter etc   shall  not inhibit any of the functionality of the TMN system     The Contractor shall submit for Employer   s approval the TMN architecture describing in detail  the following subsystems features     Database used in TMN   Master Processor  server workstation  LAN  Peripherals and hardware  Software and operating system   Local Consoles   Craft Terminals   Data communication between NEs  Local Consoles and TMN Processor s   Routers Bridges   Expansion Capabilities    Tae moenoges    RFO SDH 41E doc Page 55 of 83    2 9 3 Man    agement Functions    The TMN shall support following Management functions     2 9 3 1 Configuration Management    Configurati    on management is concerned with management  display  and control of the network    configuration  Minimum specific requirements that shall be satisfied include the following     a     f     Provide tools to establish and maintain the backbone topology and configuration  information and provide graphical maps depicting the configurations     Gather descriptive information about the current configuration of the equipment   provide operator displays  and prepare reports     Provide tools for planning  establishing  and changing the static equipment  configuration  Provide for changes to the equipment configuration in respon
17.  this section terminal equipment refers to SDH equipment of Fibre Optic  Transmission System  FOTS  and its interfaces along with other items  routers switch   interface converters etc  if provided external to SDH equipment to meet the  specification   Required characteristics of fibre optic terminal equipment  NMS system   and associated equipment of communication system are specified herein at the  system level  subsystem level  and equipment level in the following sections     2 1 2 1 Nil  2 1 2 2 System Maintainability    To facilitate performance trending  efficient diagnosis and corrective resolution  the  system shall permit in service diagnostic testing to be executed both locally and from  remote locations  manually and or initiated under TMN control  Such testing shall not  affect the functional operation of the system     Preventive and problem oriented maintenance of the communications system shall be  performed using diagnostics tools such as NMS and test equipment  They shall  support complete maintenance of all system elements and shall permit the diagnosis  of any fault without requiring additional test equipment  For all redundant systems   disconnection and repair of any failed device shall not interrupt the operation of the  system     2 1 2 3 System Upgradability and Expandability    Equipment supplied shall be sized  though not necessarily equipped  to support  system  subsystem expansion to full capacity as provided by specified aggregate  transmission r
18.  thresholds on certain performance parameters  Alarm categories  include as a minimum a warning and a failure     7  Calculate selected statistical data to measure performance on selected equipment  based on both current and historical performance data maintained in performance  logs  Performance data provided is limited to what is available from the  equipment Contractors     8  Provide graphical displays of NE current performance parameter values  Provide  tabular displays of current  peak  and average values for performance parameters     10  Generate reports based on system statistics such as daily  weekly  monthly yearly  performance reports     2 9 3 4 Security Management    The TMN shall be provided with security features to limit access to monitoring and control  capabilities to only authorized personnel  One access level of System Administrator and at  least two levels of operator access shall be provided   read only  and write  The system  administrator shall be able to create  define and modify operators with different access levels   network domains and perform all kind of maintenance and up gradation of the TMN system   With  read only  access level  network parameters should only be viewed  Access to database  maintenance  command control and test functions shall be available with  write    access level   Means shall be provided to ensure only one authorized user has write capability for a selected  domain of the network  It shall be possible to define multiple 
19. 0 Mbps with Layer 2 switching  Minimum 4 No 27  interfaces per card      20 Cabinet for SDH Equipment  including DDF patching facilities   amp  other No 26  i accessories    3 0 TMN   i  Craft Terminal   a    Hardware Set 1   b    Software Set 1   ii  Network Manager  amp  Element Manager System   a    Hardware Set  1   b    Software Set  1  Il Mandatory Spares for Telecom Eqpt  NDMC works   A SDH Equipment   I  Common cards  power supply cards  Power Cabling  hardware  amp  Set 3  accessories  each    Il  Optical cards   a   1 1 No  6   Ill    Tributary Cards   a  E1 Interface card  Minimum 4 interfaces per card  No  3   b  Ethernet interfaces 10 100 Mbps with Layer 2 switching  Minimum 4 No  3  interfaces per card    IV    Pre Connectorized Optical Fibre Patch cords  10 mtr length of each  No  18                     END OF SECTION 6      RFO SDH 41E doc    Page 62 of 83       SECTION   7    Reference No   TCIL 15 914 1 09 MM 41 E January 21  2009    PERFORMANCE BANK GUARANTEE FORMAT          M s Telecommunications Consultants India Ltd    TCIL Bhawan  Greater Kailash I  New Delhi     110 048  INDIA    With due stamp duty if applicable     OUR LETTER OF GUARANTEE No         In consideration of TELECOMMUNICATIONS CONSULTANTS INDIA LIMITED  having  its office at TCIL Bhawan  Greater Kailash I  New Delhi     110 048  INDIA   hereinafter  referred to as    TCIL    which expression shall unless repugnant to the content or meaning  thereof include all its successors  administrator
20. 03  Further  the characteristics of optical fibre s  already installed being  installed separately shall conform to the ITU T Recommendations G 652  However   the attenuation coefficient of the fiber shall be  lt  0 35dB km   1310nm and   lt 0 21dB km   1550nm     RFO SDH 41E doc Page 26 of 83       2 2 Fibre Optic Transmission System    The FOTS shall be based on SDH technology  Minimum aggregate bit rate shall be  STM 1 and equipped with minimum 4 E1 interfaces G 703   amp  4 Ethernet interfaces   IEEE 802 3 IEEE 802 3u  supporting layer 2 switching as tributaries  The Ethernet  interfaces shall support VLAN  IEEE 802 1P Q   spanning tree  IEEE 802 1D  quality  of service  The Contractor may offer external Layer 2 switch to meet the functionality  if Layer  2 switching is not supported within the offered SDH equipments     The Contractor shall provide  supply and install  connectorised jumpers  patch cords   from FODP to equipment and equipment to equipment connection  Two number of  spare jumpers shall be provided in each connection  Fiber jumpers shall be of  sufficient lengths as to provide at least 0 5m of service loop when connected for their  intended purpose     2 2 1 SDH Equipment  2 2 1 1 Functional Requirement    The offered equipment shall be configurable either SDH Terminal Multiplexer  TM  or  SDH Add Drop Multiplexer  ADM  or Digital Cross Connect  DXC   For the purpose of  the BoQ  the SDH Equipment is considered to be divided in three parts i e  Optical  car
21. 1  2 2  2 3  2 4  2 5  2 6  2 7  2 8  2 9  2 10  2 11  2 12  2 13  2 14  2 15  2 16  2 17  2 18    2 19  2 20  2 21  2 22  2 23  2 24  2 25    INSTRUCTIONS TO BIDDERS    INTRODUCTION  DEFINITIONS    BIDDER TO BEAR COST OF PURCHASE OF TENDER  BID DOCUMENTS   AMENDMENT TO BID DOCUMENTS  EXTENSION OF TIME   BID PRICE   BIDDERS ELIGIBILITY AND QUALIFICATIONS  BID SECURITY   VALIDITY PERIOD OF BID   FORMAT OF SIGNING OF THE BID   DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF BID   LATE BID   MODIFICATION AND WITHDRAWAL OF BIDS  OPENING OF TECHNO COMMERCIAL OFFER  CLARIFICATION OF BIDS   EVALUATION OF TENDERS   PURCHASER    S RIGHT TO VARY QUANTITIES  PURCHASER    S RIGHT TO ACCEPT ANY BID AND TO REJECT ANY OR ALL  BIDS   NOTIFICATION OF SUCCESSFUL BIDDER  ISSUE OF LETTER OF INTENT  CANCELLATION OF LETTER OF INTENT   POST BID CLARIFICATIONS   DELIVERY TIME FRAME   SUBMISSION OF BID   OPENING OF PRICE Offer    RFO SDH 41E doc Page 5 of 83    2 1    2 2    2 3    2 3 1    2 3 2    2 4    2 4 1    2 4 2    INTRODUCTION  DEFINITIONS        Purchaser    means Telecommunications Consultants India Ltd   TCIL   its Head  Quarter at New Delhi or any other project branch offices within or outside India        Bidder    means the individual or firm or corporate body or consortium or association  of persons who participates in the RFO and submits its bid           Goods Products    means all the hardware equipments  instruments  tools  machinery  etc   and or other materials like components parts spares includin
22. ADM and TM                       N 1 APS        Common control cards which are essentially  required for operation of the equipment           The offered equipment shall support at least SNCP as per standard ITU T G 841  In  case the equipment offered by the Bidder does not support the above mentioned  minimum protection methods  the bidder shall have to provide all additional equipment  needed to provide same level of flexibility  redundancy and functionality at no  additional cost to Employer  The bidders shall provide details of protection schemes  supported in the Bid document     The offered equipment shall support automatic switchover function between the  redundant modules and all required modules and hardwares to support the automatic  switch over shall be provided by the Contractor     2 1 3 4 Lost Signal Recovery    At any digital signal level  reapplication of a lost signal shall result in automatic  resynchronisation and full restoration to normal operation without manual intervention   All alarms incident to the signal failure  shall be automatically cleared at the  equipment  rack and monitoring levels and normal operation indications restored and  reported  if applicable     2 1 3 5 Equipment Lifespan    All equipment supplied shall have a minimum expected life of fifteen  15  years from  the date of operational acceptance     2 1 4 Optical Fibre Characteristics    The characteristics of optical fibre to be installed under this package are detailed in  section 
23. CAL  OPTICAL INPUT OUTPUT INTERFACES  Fill for all type of Equipment     43  List ITU T Standards in compliance  with    44    45   47          Tributary bit rate  nominal   Mbit s        Fill for all type of Tributaries        Tolerance in bit rate     rie ae aa a    No  of ports           48  Impedance of coax cable used for Q  electrical Input Output port        49  Type of connector       50    Spare cable pairs        51  Input jitter acceptance UI  p p   100 Hz to 10 KHz   10 KHz to 800 KHz        52   Maximum output jitter in the absence   UI  p p   of i p jitter  100 Hz to 10 KHz   10 KHz to 800 KHz        53  Jitter transfer characteristic        RFO SDH 41E doc Page 67 of 83    OUTPUT PORT  Fill for all type of Tributaries     Line impedance Q  balanced   unbalanced     Test load impedance  Unbalanced    a   ooo    56  Peak pulse amplitude V de   nominal   tolerance     59    60    61    62     Pulse width ns   nominal   tolerance      Ratio of  ve  amp   ve pulses at the center  of a pulse interval    Ratio of width of  ve   amp   ve pulses at nominal half amplitude  Maximum insertion loss    INPUT PORT  Fill for all type of Tributaries     Attenuation Char  of inter connecting  cable for digital signal presented at  input port    Return loss  at 1 024 MHz           63  Admissible i p signal attenuation       64  Cable loss Equalization Range       65  Maximum insertion loss  Ethernet Interface Card      66     Layer 2 functionality provided or   external s w or ro
24. DIFICATION AND WITHDRAWAL OF BIDS    The bidder may modify or withdraw his bid provided that written notice of  modification or withdrawal is received by the Purchaser prior to the deadline prescribed  for submission of bids     No bidder may modify or be allowed to withdraw bid subsequent to the deadline for  submission of bids     OPENING OF TECHNO COMMERCIAL OFFER  PART 1     The Purchaser shall open the Techno Commercial Offer  Part 1  in the presence of  authorized bidder   s representatives who choose to attend at date and time specified in  the RFO  The bidder   s representative who are present shall sign the Attendance  Register     A maximum of two representatives for any bidder shall be permitted and authorized to  attend the bid opening     The date fixed for opening of bids  if subsequently declared as holiday by the TCIL  the  revised date of schedule will be notified  However  in absence of such notification  the  bids will be opened on next working day  time and venue remaining unaltered     CLARIFICATION OF BIDS    To assist evaluation and comparison of the bids  the Purchaser may at its discretion  may ask the bidder for clarification of the bid  The clarification and response from  bidder shall be in writing     The Purchaser does not bind himself to accept the lowest or any tender and reserves to  himself the right to accept the whole or any part of the tender and altering the quantities  offered and tenderer shall supply the same at the rate quoted     EVA
25. Drive  101 Enhanced style  keyboards  mouse  parallel  serial and USB  2 0  ports  VDUs shall be 19  TFT active matrix  color LCD with a minimum resolution of 1024 X 768  Appropriate network drive card shall  also be provided wherever required     CPU enclosures shall be desktop type and shall include available expansion slots except for  the Craft Terminal which shall be a laptop  The craft terminal shall have minimum  configuration of 1 83 GHz  1GB RAM  256 MB VRAM  DVD RW drive  100 GB Hard Disk  Drive  keyboard  mouse trackball etc   LAN  serial USB  2 0  ports to accommodate printers   and Internal external Data Fax modem and a battery back up of at least 60 minutes  VDUs  shall be 15  TFT active matrix color LCD with a minimum resolution of 1024 X 768     2 9 6 2 Peripherals and hardware    TMN system shall be provided with laser printer  The laser printer shall have a minimum print  speed 17 pages per minute and a minimum resolution of 600 dpi x 600 dpi  The laser printer  shall have USB  2 0   amp  LAN port for connecting to TMN system     The printer under this specification shall be colour  amp  include print enhanced buffering to  prevent loss of print data in the event of a print failure     2 9 6 3 Local Operator Consoles    The Contractor shall provide operator consoles sized and equipped to support the offered  subsystem s  furnished and in compliance with the specification  The console shall provide  hardware interfacing for the TMN users to the software opera
26. E doc Page 22 of 83    SECTION  5    Reference No   TCIL 15 914 1 09 MM 41 E January 21  2009    TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS FOR SDH EQUIPMENT FOR FOCS  PGCIL PROJECT    TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS OF TERMINAL EQUIPMENT amp  NMS    This section describes the Fiber Optic communication network configuration and the  equipment characteristics for communication system to be installed under the project  The  subsystems addressed within this section are      1  Fibre Optic Transmission System  FOTS    2  Telecommunication Management Network  TMN     The requirements described herein are applicable to the communication network depicted in  Appendix  A and the Telecommunication Management Network  TMN  for monitoring and  control of this communication network  TMN and NMS  Network Management System  have  been interchangeably used in this specification     2 1 General Network Characteristics  2 1 1 Description     i  The proposed FO communication network for NDMC  New Delhi  India is depicted  in Appendix A  The offered communication System shall support the communication  requirements of RTUs and the SCADA DMS system described in point to multi point  and or multipoint to multipoint configurations using Ethernet over SDH  The RTUs  located at various locations will report to Control Center over TCP IP network using  IEC 870 5 104 protocol  The Remote Consoles of SCADA DMS system at various  locations may also use the same communication network  The proposed network shall  also be used for V
27. EC  field 870 2 1  1995    Yes Level   3  6 1   Power Frequency voltage  on control and signal lines N A N A Yes Yes  6 2   DC voltage on control and  signal lines N A N A Yes N A   End Of Table           RFO SDH 41E doc    Page 45 of 83       Table 2 5   Recommended Emission Tests                                                    S NO  Emission test AC DC Control Telecom Para   Power Power    amp  Signal   Line metres  Supply   Supply  1 Harmonics currents  IEC 1000 3 2 Yes N A N A N A Table  17 of  2 Voltage fluctuations IEC  IEC 1000 3 3 Yes N A N A N A 870 2   3 LF disturbance es  voltages  B  CCITT  recommendation  P 53 N A Yes N A N A  4 Transient  disturbance voltages Yes Yes N A N A  5 RF disturbance  voltages  CISPR 22 Yes Yes N A N A  6 RF disturbance  currents  CISPR 22 N A N A N A Yes  7 RF radiated fields  CISPR 22 Yes   End Of Table            c  Insulation Withstand Voltages    As per section 6 of IEC 870 2 1  Recommended class   VW1 of Table 18     2 8 2 3 Mechanical Tests    The following tests shall be performed with the equipment packed according to the  Contractor s specifications to demonstrate safe transportation of the equipment      a  Mechanical Vibration Test    The procedure for this test is described in IEC Publication 68 2 6  The testing  procedure shall be carried out in the sequence 8 1   8 2 1   8 1 as described in  document 68 2 6     RFO SDH 41E doc Page 46 of 83    For the vibration response investigation  clause 8 1 of 68 2 6   the test sh
28. L 0  C   TH 45  C   3  Cycle duration for each temperature is three  3  hours    4  Ramp  1   C minute      5  Acceptance Criteria  The equipment shall meet the specified  requirement and there shall not be any degradation in BER     2 8 2 2 Power Supply and EMI EMC tests  The test procedure and acceptance criteria shall be as defined in IEC 870 2 1    a  Immunity Tests    The list of Immunity tests are specified below in Table 2 4      b  Emission Tests    The list of Emission tests are specified below in Table 2 5    RFO SDH 41E doc Page 44 of 83    Table 2 4   Recommended Immunity Tests                                                                                     Immunity Test AC DC Control Telecom Parameters  IEC 1000 4 1 Power Power  amp  Signal   Line  Supply   Supply  Harmonics Yes N A N A N A Table 11 of IEC  870 2 1  1995    Interharmonics Yes N A N A N A Level   1  Signalling Voltage Yes N A N A N A  Voltage Fluctuations Yes Yes N A N A  Voltage dips and  Interruptions Yes Yes N A N A  100 1300 us surge Yes Yes N A N A Table 12 of IEC  870 2 1  1995    1 2 50   8 20 us surges Yes Yes Yes N A Level   3  Fast transient bursts Yes Yes Yes Yes  Damped oscillatory waves Yes Yes Yes Yes  10 700 us surges N A N A N A Yes  Electrostatic discharge Table 13 of IEC  870 2 1  1995    Yes Level   3  4 1   Power frequency Table 14 of IEC  magnetic field Yes 870 2 1  1995    Level   3  4 3   Damped oscillatory  magnetic field Yes  5 1   Radiated electromagnetic Table 15 of I
29. LUATION OF RFO    The Purchaser shall evaluate the bids in respect to the substantive responsiveness of the  bid or otherwise  The Purchaser shall carry out detailed evaluation of the substantially  responsive bids  The Purchaser shall check the bid to determine whether they are  complete  whether any computational errors have been made or required sureties have  been furnished     RFO SDH 41E doc Page 8 of 83    2 16 2    2 16 3    2 16 4    2 16 5    2 16 6    2 16 7    2 16 8    2 17    2 17 1    2 17 2    2 18    2 19    2 19 1    2 19 2    Arithmetical error shall be rectified on the following basis       a  If there is a discrepancy between the unit price and total price that is obtained  multiplying the unit price and quantity  the unit price shall prevail and the total  price shall be corrected by the Purchaser     b  In case of discrepancy between words and figures  the amount in words shall  prevail     A bid determined as substantially non responsive shall be rejected by the Purchaser     The Purchaser may waive any minor infirmity or non conformity or irregularity in the  bid which does not constitute a material deviation     The Purchaser shall evaluate in detail and compare the bids which are substantially  responsive     The evaluation of the ranking shall be carried out on the landed price of goods offered  inclusive of all taxes     The distribution of required quantity amongst the technically and commercially  complied bidders shall be based on merits of eac
30. Ministry of Law  amp  Justice  Government of India  Upon  such reference  the dispute shall be decided by the Law Secretary or the Special  Secretary   Additional Secretary  when so authorized by the Law Secretary  whose  decision shall bind the Parties finally and conclusively  The Parties to the dispute will  share equally the cost of arbitration as intimated by the Arbitrator     RISK PURCHASE    In the event of Supplier   s failure to execute the contract to the satisfaction of the  Purchaser  the Purchaser reserves the right      RFO SDH 41E doc Page 16 of 83    3 13    3 14    3 15    3 16    3 16 1     a  to reject any part of the Contract executed and withhold payment for such  portion of the Contract till such time the defects are rectified to the satisfaction  of the Purchaser      b  to terminate the Contract by giving 2 weeks notice in writing without assigning  any reason and to get the Contract executed by other agency at the risk and cost  of the Supplier     APPLICABLE LAWS    This contract shall be interpreted  construed and governed by the laws of the Republic  of India and the parties hereby submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Court and to  all Courts having jurisdiction in appeal therefrom     Any dispute in relation to the contract shall be submitted to the appropriate Court of the  Republic of India for determination  The parties to the contract shall continue to fulfill  their respective obligations under the contract during the currency of the 
31. N AND TESTS    The Purchaser or its representatives or ultimate client shall have the right to inspect and  test the goods for their conformity to the specifications  The Purchaser may also  appoint an agency for this purpose  The technical specifications shall specify what  inspection and tests the Purchaser requires and where they are to be conducted  Where  the Purchaser decides to conduct such tests on the premises of the Supplier  all  reasonable facilities and assistance like testing instruments and other test gadgets  including access to the drawings and production data shall be furnished to the Inspector  free of costs  In case the tested goods fail to conform to the specifications  the Inspector  may reject them and the Supplier shall either replace the rejected goods or make  alteration necessary to meet the specifications requirements free of cost to the  Purchaser     RFO SDH 41E doc Page 13 of 83    3 5 3    3 5 3    3 6    3 6 1    3 6 2    3 6 3    3 6 4    3 7    3 7 1    Notwithstanding the pre supply tests and inspections  the material on receipt in the  Purchaser   s premises shall also be tested and if any material or part thereof is found  defective  the same shall be replaced free of cost to the Purchaser     If any material before it is taken over is found defective or fails to fulfill the  requirements of the contract  the Inspector shall give the Supplier notice setting forth  details of such defects or failures and the Supplier shall make the materia
32. REQUEST FOR OFFERS  FOR  SUPPLY OF SDH EQUIPMENT AND SPARES  FOR    FOCS PGCIL PROJECT          Ref  No    TCIL 15 914 1 09 MM 41 E    Date   January 21  2009       Issued by      Material Management Division  Fourth Floor   Fax    91 11 26242266  Tel    91 11 26202020  Email   mmdiv tcil india com    visit us at   http   www tcil india com          EIRO AN  Telecommunications Consultants India Ltd   we i    A Govt  of India Enterprise   L  TCIL Bhawan  Greater Kailash I P    New Delhi     110 048  India                 RFO SDH 41E doc Page 1 of 83          TABLE OF CONTENTS    SECTION TITLE PAGE NO   1  REQUEST FOR OFFERS 3 4  2  INSTRUCTIONS TO PARTICIPATING PARTIES 5 11  3  GENERAL CONDITIONS OF CONTRACT 12   19  4  SPECIAL CONDITIONS OF CONTRACT 20   22  5  TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS 23   60  6  SCHEDULE OF REQUIREMENT  BOQ   amp  PRICE FORMAT 61 62  7  PERFORMANCE BANK GUARANTEE 63  8  DATA REQUIREMENT SHEET  DRS  64 72  9  INSPECTION  TESTING  TRAINING    SUPPORT SERVICES AND DOCUMENTATION 73   83    RFO SDH 41E doc Page 2 of 83    SECTION   1    Reference No   TCIL 15 914 1 09 MM 41 E January 21  2009  REQUEST FOR OFFER    Sealed offers are invited from eligible Suppliers for the supply of SDH Equipment and  Spares for FOCS PGCIL Project     The  Request for Offer    documents are enclosed     Complete documents are also available on TCIL   s website address given below     http   www tcil india com    The documents downloaded by the parties from the website shall be val
33. S and  associated equipment  This TMN shall provide the capability to monitor  reconfigure   and control elements of the telecommunications network from a centralized location  and at each node of the network where equipment is located  This TMN system shall  assist Employer in the operations and maintenance of the wideband communication  resources including detection of degraded equipment  system performance  the  diagnosis of problems  the implementation of remedial actions and the allocation or  reallocation of telecommunications resources and addition deletion of network  elements     RFO SDH 41E doc Page 30 of 83    The bidder shall provide details of the offered TMN in the bid supporting all the  features  The furniture for placement of the TMN hardware shall be provided by the  Contractor     2 3 1 Applicable Standards    The TMN design concept  functional and informational architecture and physical  architecture  shall be in compliance with CCITT Recommendation M 3010     TMN shall also include the monitoring of the Ethernet interfaces Switching modules of  SDH equipment  or external layer 2 switches  for configuration  alarm and  performance monitoring as a minimum requirement     2 3 2 NMS Architecture  The NMS shall provide    a  Collection of Management data from all Network Elements  NEs  supplied under  this package     b    Processing of above management data by using processor s  located at control  Centre     c    Monitoring and control of the NEs as defined 
34. a period not exceeding one month from the date of the initial report pointing out  the defects  The replacement or rectification shall be made at site by the Supplier free  of cost  Should the Supplier fail to do the needful within this stipulated time frame  the  purchaser reserves the right to reject the equipment in full or in part and get it replaced  at the cost of the Supplier  The cost of any such replacement made by the Purchaser  shall be deducted from the amount payable to the Supplier against this purchase order     RFO SDH 41E doc Page 17 of 83    3 16 2    3 17    3 18    If any equipment or part thereof is lost or rendered defective during transit  pending  settlement of the insurance claim  fresh order shall be placed on the Supplier for such  loss or defective equipment and the Supplier shall arrange to supply the same within  three months of such order at the same prices and on the same general terms and  conditions as mentioned in this purchase order     FORCE MAJEURE    If any time  during the continuance of this contract  the performance in whole or in part  by either party under obligation as per this contract is prevented or delayed by reasons  of any war or hostility  act of the public enemy  civil commotion  sabotage  fire  flood   explosion  epidemic  quarantine restrictions  strike  lockout or acts of God  hereinafter  referred to    eventuality      provided notice of happening of any such eventuality is  given by either party to the other within 21
35. actory acceptance tests for SDH equipment is provided in table 2 6 below   This list of factory acceptance tests shall be supplemented by the Contractor s  standard FAT testing program     Table 2 6   Factory Acceptance Tests for SDH equipment     e  oson Ooo    Physical inspection for conformance to DRS  BoQ  drawings and  appearance of equipment       ra Optical output power    RFO SDH 41E doc Page 47 of 83      3    Transmitter light wave spectral analysis  and Low receive level threshold  ra Generation of bit error rate curve    Electrical interface tests which include  output and input jitter  bit error  rate  pulse shape  and line rate tolerance  cable compensation    Measurement of analog and digital service channel  parameters functionality       Performance of supervision  alarm  diagnostics  loopbacks etc  through  Craftsperson interface        Simulation of failure conditions and failover of each redundant unit     At a minimum tests on Ethernet interface shall include demonstration of  Ping test  Through put test  Latency test  Packet loss test as per RFC  2544    EN Test of spare card slots  12    Checks of power supply converter voltage margins    Random inspections and any other additional tests to verify the accuracy  of documentation    14   Test of spare parts modules cards as applicable tests   oi End of the Table    2 8 3 1 FAT of NMS       Physical inspection of TMN hardware for conformance to approved BoQ  amp  drawing   Testing of TMN to demonstrate pro
36. all be carried  out over a sweep cycle under the same conditions as for the endurance test   described later   but the vibration amplitude and the sweep rate may be decreased  below these conditions so that the determination of the response characteristics can  be obtained     The endurance test conditions are selected according to the vibration withstand  requirements      b  Shock Test    The procedure of this test is defined in IEC Publication 68 2 27  each test  with a semi  sinusoidal shape  clause 3 1 1 2      The recommended severity shall be A   294 m s     D   18 ms  Three shocks per axis  per direction shall be applied to the equipment packed according to the Contractor s  specifications     Or Free Fall Test    This test could be performed as an alternative to the shock or Bump test  The  procedure is defined in IEC publication 68 2 32  The equipment shall be packed  according to the Contractor s specifications  The drop height shall be defined in  accordance with IEC 68 2 32  The surface of the packing case which comes into  contact with the ground is the surface on which the packing case normally rests  if the  packing does not have any features  inscription  special shape  etc   identifying this  surface  the test is carried out successively on all the surfaces of the packing     Or Bump Test    This test could be performed as an alternative to Shock test or Free Fall test  The  procedure is defined in IEC 68 2 29     2 8 3 Factory Acceptance Tests    The list f
37. ams shall be included to enhance the understanding of the overall  capability incorporated into all network and sub network equipment      ii  The installation  amp  maintenance trainings shall enable the Owner to be  self sufficient in preventive  amp  restorative maintenance of the respective commu   nications subsystems purchased by the Employer  The training courses shall  cover equipment installation  testing  amp  commissioning  operation  interfaces and  cabling between equipment  preventive maintenance  diagnostic tools and  troubleshooting procedures  corrective maintenance  and expansion procedures  for all equipment  The courses shall provide theoretical background and  extensive hands on experience     Courses shall include equipment adjustments  board level troubleshooting and  repair and  where appropriate  component level troubleshooting and repair  Course participants  shall operate actual equipment and diagnose and repair simulated failures     The training shall focus on critical aspects associated with installation  testing  amp  commissioning  of fibre optic communication equipment  This shall include the state of the art techniques  employed in laying  splicing  amp  testing of fibre optic cable  amp  terminal equipments etc  The  owner s personnel shall be trained in such a way that the basic maintenance of terminal  equipments  amp  cable etc  can be carried out effectively      iii  The Network Management training shall familiarize the Owner maintenanc
38. ariances are resolved  full test documentation has  been delivered to the Employer  and the Employer has issued Material Inspection  amp   Clearance Certificate  MICC   Successful completion of the factory tests and the  Employer approval to dispatch shall in no way constitute final acceptance of the  system or any portion thereof  These tests shall be carried out in the presence of the  Employer s Owner   s authorised representatives     Factory acceptance tests shall not proceed without the prior delivery to and approval  of all test documentation by the Employer     The factory acceptance test shall demonstrate the technical characteristics of the fibre  optic cable  amp  equipment in relation to this specifications and approved drawings and  documents  The factory acceptance tests for FODP and other items shall be proposed  by the Contractor in accordance with technical specifications and Contractor s   including Sub Contractor s  supplier s  standard FAT testing program  In general the  FAT for other items shall include at least  Physical verification  demonstration of  technical characteristics  various operational modes  functional interfaces  alarms and  diagnostics etc For Test equipment  FAT tests shall include supply of proper  calibration certificates  demonstration of satisfactory performance  evidence of correct  equipment configuration and manufacturer   s final inspection certificate  report     List of tests and Procedures for factory testing for specific ite
39. atabases for final communication network following the  global acronyms for all stations  Database s  to be provided shall contain all structure  definitions and data for the integrated functional requirements of TMN system     TMN operator Groups shall share the same virtual database  This means that they shall share  the same database and database manager  whether or not physically separate databases are  maintained     2 9 7 4 Help    All applications shall be supported by USER accessible HELP commands that shall assist the  USER in the performance of its tasks  HELP commands for an application shall be available to  the USER from within the active application and shall not interfere with the activities of the  application    2 10 DDF Patching Facilities    The Contractor shall supply and install all cabling  wiring  connectors  cross connects and  Digital Distribution Frames  DDF  associated with the installation and interconnection of  equipments procured under this package as follows      I  All the El ports shall be terminated on DDFs  DDF shall be provided for termination 16  El as minimum    II  Cables  including connectors  for El level connections between DDF and telecom  Equipment     VI  Cables  including connectors  required for E 1 level connections of all other equipment  to DDF and telecom Equipment     VID All Ethernet ports shall be terminated with RJ 45 connector  Provision for 100   expansion with connector for terminating additional Ethernet ports shall 
40. ates  Equipment units provisioned for unequipped subunit expansions   shall be terminated at appropriate patching facilities or termination blocks  Power  supplies and NMS shall be sized for maximum equipped system capacity     2 1 2 4 Equipment Availability  The calculated availability requirements are as follows      1  The availability of each fibre optic link  E1 to E1  shall be at least 99 999      2  The availability of network end to end  E1 to E1  shall be at least 99 998      3  The average per link subscriber to subscriber availability shall be at least  99 97   The per link subscriber to subscriber availability is defined as the  availability between any two data or voice subscribers at the two end of a  wideband link     4  The network wide subscriber to subscriber availability shall be atleast 99 8    The network wide subscriber to subscriber availability is defined as the  availability between any two data or voice subscribers on the wideband  network     RFO SDH 41E doc Page 24 of 83    The calculated availability is defined as the theoretical availability determined by a  statistical calculation based on the mean time between failure  MTBF  and the mean   time to repair  MTTR  of the components and subsystems comprising the FOTS  The  down time of the fibre optic cable shall not be considered in the aforesaid availability  calculations     In order to ensure that the equipment  amp  configuration proposed by the bidders shall be  capable of demonstrating the s
41. ault  Management and Security management  All the standard features and  required customization of the TMN shall be demonstrated for proper  functioning    Demonstration of Protection switching    Table 2 7  Fibre Optic Transmission system  SDH  Installation Testing    Physical Inspection for conformance to drawings  rack elevations and  appearance of equipment and cabling    Station power supply input and equipment power supply  DC DC converter   output voltage if access to o p is available or external converters used  measurements    Terminal transceiver performance testing  Tx power  receive signal strength etc    Service channel performance  EOW functionality in link test    Rack and local alarms  No unwanted alarms shall be present and all alarms shall  be demonstrated to be functional    Proper establishment of Safety and signalling earthing system and resistance to  ground to be checked    Correct configuration  level setting  amp  adjustments and termination of Input  output  interfaces       a Craftsperson interface  alarm and control functional performance    Simulation of failure conditions and failover of protected components     RFO SDH 41E doc Page 50 of 83    Table 2 8  TMN Installation Testing    FA Description     1  Physical inspection for conformance to drawings  rack elevations and  appearance of equipment and cabling    Workstation hardware inventory  configuration and characteristics    3  Demonstration of proper operation of all hardware  including work
42. ayload     The SDH equipment should support four optical directions and it shall be possible to  implement MSP  amp  SNCP protection scheme     2 8 1 2 Redundancy and Protection  The network connectivity is planned in rings with SNCP protection  On linear sections of the  network  MSP protection using 4 fibres may be implemented    However  actual    implementation of protection scheme  MSP or SNCP  shall be finalized during detailed  engineering     RFO SDH 41E doc Page 51 of 83    2 8 1 3 Service Channel    Service channels shall be provided as a function of the SDH equipment and shall be equipped  with Service Channel Modems that shall provide at a minimum  One voice channel  order  wire  with analog interface  0 3 to 3 4 kHz  and One data channel  Both omnibus and selective  calling facilities shall be provided  There shall be a facility to extend the line system order wire  to any other system or exchange lines on 2W 4W basis     2 8 1 4 Supervision and Alarms    ISM  In Service Monitoring  circuitry shall be provided as a function of the SDH equipment   Local visual alarm indicators shall be provided on the equipment  as a rack summary alarm  panel  Alarms shall be as per ITU T Standards G 774  G 783 and G 784  Additionally  F2 and  Q2 interfaces for a local craftsperson terminal interface and remote equipment monitoring is  required     The Equipment shall support collection of at least four  4  external alarms for monitoring and  control of station associated devices 
43. be provided     VIII  Any other cables  connections etc required for a fully functional  integrated system       END OF SECTION 5      RFO SDH 41E doc Page 60 of 83    o0p ATy HAS OAa    E8 JO 19 93ed     GSSOTONA 4 JANXINNV LV STIVLAG SWALI AO LSII       SI  No        Item Description                            N  be Quantity  Ex  Factory Price in INR    gt    Basic Unit Price exclusive of all levies  amp   charges   Nn   w  z   a Amount EEA    x J     lt  Hog  POSRED  oo Amount            g   ga    Amount            Any other levy charges Packing  Forwarding                2  amp  Transit Insurance charges      Discount   _   Unit Price inclusive of all levies  amp  charges  i less discount  4 6 8 10 11 12    z Total Price inclusive of all levies  amp     charges  3 x 13              SI       Excise Custom Tariff Head          ATOAGHADOS did ard V ALILNVNAO AO THA    A TP ININ 60 T P16 ST TIDL ON VUPA    6007    Iz Aaenuee    9   NOILOUS    ANNEXURE B                                                                                  UNIT   QTY   S No  ITEM DESCRIPTION  1 0   Transmission Equipment  A SDH Equipment  ADM   Base Equipment  Common cards  Power supply cards  power cabling    I  other hardware  amp  accessories including sub racks  patch cords  DDF No  26  etc  fully equipped excluding  Il  and  III  below    II    Optical cards   a   1 1 No  60   III    Tributary Cards   a    E1 Interface card  Minimum 4 interfaces per card    No  26   b  Ethernet interfaces 10 10
44. below     I  TMN system at Control Centre shall support management of all  equipments supplied and monitoring of the complete network supplied  under this package  At a minimum functions of Network Management  Layer  NML  and Element Management Layer  EML  as defined in CCITT  M 3010 shall be provided  The detailed functions are described below in  this Section    II    Monitoring and control of NEs using Craft Terminals as defined in this  section     d  Supervisory monitoring and control of the following station associated devices     I  Intrusion Detection Alarms   Il    Power Failure   Ill    Fire and Smoke Detection   IV  Environmental Control  Temperature  Humidity etc      e    Communication channel support for TMN system    The supplied TMN system shall be capable of handling all management functions for  at least 200   of the supplied network elements  Further  the centralised TMN system  shall have provision for addition of at least two remote operator consoles  The TMN  hardware shall be so designed that failure of a single processor  amp  component  router   switch  converter etc   shall not inhibit any of the functionality of the TMN system     The Contractor shall submit for Employer   s approval the TMN architecture describing  in detail the following subsystems features     RFO SDH 41E doc Page 31 of 83    g   h     Database used in TMN   Master Processor  server workstation  LAN  Peripherals and hardware  Software and operating system   Local Consoles   Craft
45. by the TMN  The Employer shall identify the alarm  contact points during survey   detailed engineering and the wiring supply  installation and  termination from these external points to the installed equipment shall be carried out by the  Contractor     2 8 1 5 Synchronisation Output    The equipment shall provide synchronisation as per table 2 2  One 2MHz synchronisation  output from each equipment shall be provided     2 8 1 6 Electrical and Optical I O Characteristics and General Parameters  Table 2 2 provides the electrical and optical characteristics as well as other general parameters  for SDH equipment    Table 2 2    Electrical and Optical I O Characteristics and General Parameters    Optical Wavelength  O P    1310 1550nm    Optical Source XO       Laser    Optical Source Lifespan Better than 5 X10   hours  Optical Fibre Type G 652    Optical Connectors Type FC PC  Transmission Quality Per ITU T G 821  G 823  G 826    Source Primary Power  48 Vdc  Tributary  Electrical Interface Per ITU T G 703  75 Q  120 Q  Ethernet 10 100 Mbps interface Per IEEE 802 3             RFO SDH 41E doc Page 52 of 83    SDH Bit Rates Per ITU T G 703             Optical Interfaces Per ITU T G 957  G 958  Frame and Multiplexing Structure for SDH   Per ITU T G 707  Synchronisation Per ITU T G 813    Per ITU T G 774  G 784  Per ITU T G 841          Built In Testing and Alarms Per ITU T G 774  G 783  G 784    NOTE  1  Optical wavelength shall be selected considering the characteristics of the o
46. c  Latency  d  Packet loss    10  of the total links  Chosen by the Employer  generally to cover links from all  configurations used  shall be tested for a duration of 12 Hours  Rest of the links shall  be tested for 1 Hour  In case a link does not meet the performance requirements  during 1 hour  then the duration of the test shall be increased to 12 hours  In case any  link does not meet the performance requirements during 12 hour  then the cause of  failure shall be investigated and the test shall be repeated after rectifying the defects     This phase of testing shall be conducted by the Contractor and witnessed by the  Purchaser  Field adjustments shall be made to meet established standard  however if  the field adjustments fail to correct the defects the equipments may be returned to the  Contractor for replacement at his own expense  In case any adjustments are required  to be made during the interval of the test then the test shall be repeated     2 8 4 3 Integrated Testing    Prior to commencement of integrated testing the overall system shall be configured as  required to provide all the data and voice channel required to interconnect various  RTUs and Control centre     Integrated testing shall include end to end testing of the entire communication system   The intent of integrated testing is to demonstrate that the equipment is operational  end to end under actual conditions  that all variances identified during factory and field  installation and communications t
47. concerned officers who can be contacted are mentioned    below   Mr  J  K  Pandey Mr Devki Nandan  General Manager  MM  Manager  MM   Tele  26202412 Tele  26202424    i  The inner and outer envelopes shall indicate the name and address of the    bidders to identify the bid and to enable the bid to be returned unopened in case  it is declared    late    or    rejected         ii    VENUE OF RFO OPENING   Offers shall be opened in 4  floor TCIL  Bhawan  New Delhi 110048 at the time on the due date mentioned in the N LT   If due to administrative reason the venue of Bid opening is changed it will be  duly displayed at the Reception Hall of TCIL Bhawan      iii  Offer received through Fax E mail or through open letter shall be ignored      END OF SECTION 2     RFO SDH 41E doc Page 11 of 83    SECTION   3    Reference No   TCIL 15 914 1 09 MM 41 E January 21  2009    GENERAL  COMMERCIAL  CONDITIONS OF THE CONTRACT    3 1 PRICE APPLICABILITY   3 2 STANDARDS   3 3 PATENT RIGHTS   3 4 PERFORMANCE SECURITY   3 5 INSPECTION AND TESTS   3 6 TRAINING   3 7 WARRANTY   3 8 CHANGE ORDERS   3 9 SUB LETTING   3 10 LIQUIDATED DAMAGES   3 11 ARBITRATION   3 12 RISK PURCHASE   3 13 APPLICABLE LAWS   3 14 GENERAL LIEN   3 15 PACKING   3 16 REPLACEMENT OF DEFECTIVE EQUIPMENT  3 17 FORCE MAJEURE   3 18 TERMINATION FOR DEFAULT  3 19 TERMINATION FOR INSOLVENCY  3 20 ADD ON ORDER    RFO SDH 41E doc Page 12 of 83    3 1    3 2    3 3    3 4    3 4 1    3 4 2    3 4 3    3 4 4    3 4 5    3 5    3 5 2  
48. contract  pending the final decision of the Court     GENERAL LIEN    Whenever under this contract any sum of money is recoverable from and payable by  the Supplier  the Company shall be entitled to recover such sum by appropriating in  part or in whole the security deposit of the Supplier  if a security is taken from the  Supplier  In the event of the Security being insufficient or if no security has been taken  from the Supplier  the balance or the total sum recoverable  as may be  shall be  deducted from any sum due to the Supplier or which at any time thereafter may become  due to the Supplier under this or any other contract with the Company  Should this sum  be not sufficient to cover the full amount recoverable  the Supplier shall pay to the  Company on demand the remaining balance due     PACKING    The supplier shall ensure that the Goods Equipment is securely and adequately packed  to ensure safe arrival at the destination fully withstanding all hazards such as rough  handling etc  during transit     REPLACEMENT OF DEFECTIVE EQUIPMENT    If any equipment or any part thereof  is found defective or fails to meet the  requirements of the contract before it is accepted TCIL shall give the Supplier a notice  setting forth details of such defects or failures and the Supplier shall forthwith arrange  to set right the defective equipment or replace the same by the good one to make it  comply with the requirements of the contract  This in any case shall be completed  within 
49. dditional quantity upto 25  of the  original quantity at the same rate and terms  amp  conditions of the purchase order       END OF SECTION 3      RFO SDH 41E doc Page 19 of 83    SECTION   4    Reference No   TCIL 15 914 1 09 MM 41 E January 21  2009    SPECIAL CONDITIONS OF THE CONTRACT    4 1 PRICE BASIS   4 2 PAYMENT TERMS   4 3 SALE IN TRANSIT   4 4 VALIDITY OF OFFER   4 5 PERFORMANCE BANK GUARANTEE  PBG   4 6 PAYING AUTHORITY   4 7 CONSIGNEE   4 8 WARRANTY   4 9 DELIVERY PERIOD   4 10 LIQUIDATED DAMAGES  LD    4 11 INSPECTION TESTING OF RAW MATERIALS  4 12 QUANTITY VARIATION CLAUSE    RFO SDH 41E doc Page 20 of 83    4 1    4 2    4 3     4 4    4 5     4 6    4 7    PRICE BASIS    FOR Delhi New Delhi NCR site  inclusive of Excise Duty  Central Sales Tax  VAT D   VAT  Freight  Octroi Entry Tax and other levies including transit insurance  The break   up of these taxes and levies should also be provided  Prices to remain firm  amp  fixed  during the supply period     PAYMENT TERMS    The payment terms shall be on back to back basis i e   as per PGCIL payment terms to  TCIL on submission of following documents       i  Supplier   s Invoice    ii    Manufacturer   s Certificate of Quality    iii  Insurance Policy   Certificate    iv  Material Inspection Clearance Certificate  MICC  for dispatch issued by  PGCIL     v  Test Certificates     SALE IN TRANSIT    Form    C    shall be issued by TCIL to the Supplier and the Supplier in turn shall issue  Form    E 1    in case o
50. domains for the purpose of  monitoring and control     RFO SDH 41E doc Page 57 of 83    Human error and conflict detection are also required  Such errors and access violations shall be  reported to the offending user as error messages and warnings     2 9 4 Communication Channel Requirements and Integration    Communication requirements for TMN system have not been considered in Appendices and  the Contractor shall provide these as a part of TMN system  The Contractor shall provide all  required interface cards   devices  LAN  routers bridges  channel routing  cabling  wiring etc   and interfacing required for full TMN data transport     The TMN data transport shall utilize the fibre optic communications transmission system  service channel in the overhead whenever possible  This will provide inherent critical path  protection     In case supervisory channels are not available  the Contractor shall provide suitable  interfaces in their supplied equipment for transport of TMN data  The Contractor shall  also be responsible for providing suitable channels with appropriate interfaces to  transport the TMN data     The bidders shall describe in the proposal the TMN data transport proposed to be used by the  bidder in detail including capacity requirements and various components equipment proposed  to be used     2 9 5 Craft Terminal    Each SDH equipment on the telecom network shall include provision for connecting a portable  personal computer  PC  to be known as craft terminal 
51. ds  Line   Tributary Cards  Electrical Tributaries such as E1  amp  Ethernet 10 100  Mbps interface  and Base Equipment  Consisting of Common Cards  Power supply  cards  power cabling  sub rack  other hardware and accessories required for  installation of equipment i e  everything besides optical cards and tributary cards      The offered equipment shall support at least four optical directions with STM 1 as  aggregate interfaces  4 Ethernet Interfaces  amp  4 E1 interfaces as tributaries  The SDH  equipment shall be equipped with required aggregate and tributary interfaces based  on the network topology as indicated in the BOQ  The offered equipment shall support  the following network topologies     a  TM  with protected unprotected aggregates   b  ADM  with protected unprotected aggregates   c  DXC  with protected unprotected aggregates     The ADM Equipment shall be capable of VC 12 level Cross Connection of up to 4  STM 1equivalent and support mapping of each Ethernet interface over any single or  multiple VC 12s The equipment shall support VC 12 cross connection in all the 4  directions  The equipment shall provide access to full STM1 Payload     The SDH equipment should support four optical directions and it shall be possible to  implement MSP  amp  SNCP protection scheme     2 2 1 2 Redundancy and Protection    The network connectivity is planned in rings with SNCP protection  On linear sections  of the network  MSP protection using 4 fibres may be implemented  Howeve
52. e  arising from faulty  materials  design or workmanship such as corrosion of the equipment  inadequate  contact protection  deficiencies in circuit design and or otherwise and shall remedy such  defects at his own cost when called upon to do so by the Purchaser who shall state in  writing in what respect goods are faulty  This warranty shall survive inspection or  payment for  and acceptance of goods  but shall expire except in respect of complaints  notified prior to such date 12 months after the goods have been taken over     However the warranty period specified  if any  in the Special Condition of Contract   Section     4  the same shall rule     RFO SDH 41E doc Page 14 of 83    Bure    3 7 3    3 8    3 9    3 10    3 10 1    3 10 2    3 10 3    If it becomes necessary for the supplier to replace or renew any defective  portion portions of the equipment under this clause  the provisions of the clause shall  apply to the portion portions of equipment   s replaced or renewed or until the end of the  above mentioned period of twelve months  whichever may be later  If any defect is not  remedied within a reasonable time  the Purchaser may proceed to get the work done at  the Supplier   s risk and expenses  but without prejudice to any other rights which the  Purchaser may have against the Supplier in respect of such defects     Replacement under warranty clause shall be made by the Supplier free of all charges at  site including freight  insurance and other incidental charg
53. e 2 2  One 2MHz  synchronisation output from each equipment shall be provided     2 2 1 6 Electrical and Optical I O Characteristics and General Parameters    Table 2 2 provides the electrical and optical characteristics as well as other general  parameters for SDH equipment     Table 2 2    Electrical and Optical I O Characteristics and General Parameters    Optical Wavelength    OTE 1310 1550nm  Optical Source    OTF 2   Optical Source Lifespan Better than 5 X10   hours    Optical Fibre Type G 652  Optical Connectors Type FC PC  Transmission Quality Per ITU T G 821  G 823  G 826    Source Primary Power  48 Vdc          Equipment Specifications Per ITU T G 783       RFO SDH 41E doc Page 28 of 83    Frame and Multiplexing Structure Per ITU T G 707  for SDH       NOTE  1  Optical wavelength shall be selected considering the characteristics of the  optical fibre and the link budget    NOTE  2  Eye Safety for Laser Equipment  To avoid eye damage  when a receiver  detects a line interruption  it is required that the optical power of the laser  shall be reduced to safe limits on the transmitter in the opposite direction  as per ITU T G 958    NOTE  3  In case other than FC PC connector is provided in the equipment suitable  patch cord with FC PC connectors are to be provided to connect with  FODP     2 2 2 Optical Link Performance Requirements  The optical fibre link performance requirements are specified as follows   2 2 2 1 Link Budget Calculations    The fibre optic link budget
54. e Utilities    A utility shall be provided to convert all reports into standard PC application formats  i e  dbase  dxf  excel  ASCII etc  as applicable     2 3 7 2 Revisions  Upgrades  Maintainability    Software revisions  upgrades and maintainability are specified below    All firmware and software delivered under this specification shall be the latest field  proven version available at the time of approval  Installed demonstration for  acceptance shall be required  All firmware provided shall support its fully equipped  intended functional requirements without additional rewrite or programming     All software shall be easily USER expandable to accommodate the anticipated system  growth  as defined in this specification     Software provided shall be compliant with national and international industry  standards such as IEEE  ISO and OSF    2 3 7 3 Database s     The contractor shall develop all the databases for final communication network  following the global acronyms for all stations  Database s  to be provided shall contain  all structure definitions and data for the integrated functional requirements of TMN  system     TMN operator Groups shall share the same virtual database  This means that they    shall share the same database and database manager  whether or not physically  separate databases are maintained     RFO SDH 41E doc Page 36 of 83    2 3 7 4 Help    All applications shall be supported by USER accessible HELP commands that shall  assist the USER in the p
55. e personnel with the  concepts and techniques for configuring  programming  maintaining  and troubleshooting the  Contractor supplied TMN and its associated database  The Network Management training course  shall provide the course participants with hands on experience using the actual system being  supplied      iv  Training aids for each course shall include the Operator s User Manual for each  type of equipment  Operator training that is a standard part of the maintenance  training will be applicable     8 10 Mandatory Spare Parts    Appendices provide the Mandatory Spare Parts Requirements to be provided for  Employer Owner     8 11 Recommended Spare Parts    In addition to the Mandatory Spares the bidder shall provide a list of    Recommended  Spare Parts     which may be required over and above the spares listed in Mandatory  Spare parts list  Vol Il  appendices   to support system availabilities specified in this  section  during a one year period  This list of spares shall be called the   Recommended Spare Parts List   The Recommended spare parts list shall not be  considered for evaluation and may be included in the final scope of supply     The unit as well as set prices shall be provided for each subsystem set item of the  spare parts list in the appropriate Bid Price Schedule     8 12 Test Equipment    Appendices provide the Mandatory test equipment to be provided  The Contractor shall  provide in their bid  additionally recommended test equipment list necessary t
56. e printers  and Internal external Data Fax modem and a battery back up  of at least 60 minutes  VDUs shall be 15  TFT active matrix color LCD with a  minimum resolution of 1024 X 768     2 3 6 2 Peripherals and hardware  TMN system shall be provided with laser printer  The laser printer shall have a    minimum print speed 17 pages per minute and a minimum resolution of 600 dpi x 600  dpi  The laser printer shall have USB  2 0   amp  LAN port for connecting to TMN system     RFO SDH 41E doc Page 35 of 83    The printer under this specification shall be colour  amp  include print enhanced buffering  to prevent loss of print data in the event of a print failure     2 3 6 3 Local Operator Consoles    The Contractor shall provide operator consoles sized and equipped to support the  offered subsystem s  furnished and in compliance with the specification  The console  shall provide hardware interfacing for the TMN users to the software operating  support systems  At a minimum  a console shall include the hardware similar to a  workstation     2 3 7 General Software Firmware Requirements    Due to various alternative design approaches  it is neither intended nor possible to  specify all software and firmware characteristics  It is the intent herein to provide  design boundaries and guidelines that help to ensure a demonstrated  integrated  program package that is maintainable and meets both hardware systems  requirements and the customer s operational requirements     2 3 7 1 Softwar
57. e treated for rust  and primed to form a bond between metal and the finish coats of paint     Equipment covers shall be provided for exposed components mounted  in equipment sub Racks     Dust and moisture protection shall meet or exceed IP20 standards      B  Equipment Cabinet  Enclosure  Construction     1      2      3      4     Equipment cabinets  enclosures  shall be steel  steel  amp  Aluminium  extrusion fabricated and finished on all surfaces  All metal and welds  shall be thoroughly cleaned and sanded to obtain a smooth finish  All  surfaces shall be treated for rust and primed to form a bond between  metal and the finish coats of paint    Equipment cabinets  enclosures  shall be designed free standing but  shall be mounted to the floor  Cabinets  enclosures  shall have secure  fitting  lockable  full length front doors for access to hardware and wiring   Equipment covers for exposed components mounted inside cabinets are  not required unless specifically recommended     All doors and removable panels shall be fitted with long life rubber  beading  All panels shall be fabricated from minimum 2 0mm thickness  steel sheet  However  for racks with load bearing Aluminum extrusion  frame  door panels and side panels may be fabricated from minimum  1 6mm thickness steel sheet and the top  amp  bottom panels shall be  fabricated from minimum 2 0mm thickness steel sheet     Equipment cabinets  enclosures  shall be dust and moisture proof as per  IP41 specification  or bette
58. east 30 days written notice of the planned commencement of  each type test     The Contractor shall provide a detailed schedule for performing all specified type  tests  These tests shall be performed in the presence of a representative of the  Employer     Testing charges for all the type tests listed in the specifications shall be indicated  separately for each item  excluding expenses of Inspector  Employer s  representative  in the prescribed schedule of the bidding document  The total  amount of these charges will be considered in the bid evaluation process     The Contractor shall ensure that all type tests can be completed within the time  schedule offered in his Technical Proposal     In case of failure during any type test  the Supplier is either required to  manufacture a fresh sample lot and repeat all type tests successfully or repeat  that particular type tests at least three times successfully on the samples  selected from the already manufactured lot at his own expenses  In case a  fresh lot is manufactured for testing then the lot already manufactured shall be  rejected     RFO SDH 41E doc Page 76 of 83    8 5 1 Type Test Samples    The Contractor shall supply equipment material for sample selection only after the  Quality Assurance Plan has been approved by the Employer  The sample material  shall be manufactured strictly in accordance with the approved Quality Assurance  Plan  The Contractor shall submit for Employer approval  the type test sample  selection
59. elf act as sole arbitrator or may name as sole  arbitrator an officer of TCIL notwithstanding the fact that such officer has been directly  or indirectly associated with this contract and the provisions of the Indian Arbitration  Conciliation Act  1996 shall apply to such arbitration  The supplier expressly agrees  that the arbitration proceedings shall be held at New Delhi           The proceedings of arbitration shall be in English language     In case any supplier wants to take the dispute to a court of law after arbitration award as  aforesaid  it is clearly understood that only courts in Delhi shall have the Jurisdiction     In case of Public Sector Undertaking Government Departments    In the event of any dispute or difference relating to the interpretation and application of  the provisions of the contracts with any Public Sector Undertaking   Government  Department  such dispute or difference shall be referred by either party for Arbitration  to the sole Arbitrator in the Department of Public Enterprises to be nominated by the  Secretary to the Government of India in charge of the Department of Public  Enterprises  The Arbitration and Conciliation Act  1996 shall not be applicable to  arbitration under this clause  The award of the Arbitrator shall be binding upon the  parties to the dispute  provided  however  any party aggrieved by such award may make  a further reference for setting aside or revision of the award to the Law Secretary   Department of Legal Affairs  
60. eplenish the spare parts stock to the original  level plus any additional spares required  found to be required or additionally identified  as above     All test equipment and tools  amp  tackles issued to the Contractor shall be    issued for  use    and shall be returned at the earliest in    as issued    condition     8 14 2 Contractor   s Maintenance Responsibility for a period of five years after  the Defect Liability Period   In addition to above  Owner Employer may ask the Contractor to carry out      Maintenance    of the system  excl  fibre optic cable  including supply of spares for a  period of five years after Defect Liability Period for ensuring the successful operation  RFO SDH 41E doc Page 81 of 83    of the system  The Contractor shall be responsible for achieving the system  availability and the response time mentioned above in clause 8 14 1  The bidder shall  quote the Annual maintenance charges for five years after Defect Liability Period  which shall be considered in the bid evaluation  Bidder shall submit the detailed  procedure for achieving above in the bid     8 15 Documentation    To ensure that the proposed systems conform to the specific provisions and general  intent of the Specification  the Contractor shall submit documentation describing the  systems to employer for review and approval  Further the Contractor shall also submit  the drawings documents for all the hardware  amp  software required for site installation   testing and commissioning a
61. erformance of its tasks  HELP commands for an application  shall be available to the USER from within the active application and shall not interfere  with the activities of the application    2 4 DDF Patching Facilities    The Contractor shall supply and install all cabling  wiring  connectors  cross connects  and Digital Distribution Frames  DDF  associated with the installation and  interconnection of equipments procured under this package as follows      I  All the E1 ports shall be terminated on DDFs  DDF shall be provided for  termination 16 E1 as minimum    Il  Cables  including connectors  for E1 level connections between DDF and  telecom Equipment     III  Cables  including connectors  required for E 1 level connections of all other  equipment to DDF and telecom Equipment     IV  All Ethernet ports shall be terminated with RJ 45 connector  Provision for 100   expansion with connector for terminating additional Ethernet ports shall be    provided    V  Any other cables  connections etc required for a fully functional  integrated  system   2 5 Nil  2 6 Nil    2 7 ENVIRONMENT  EMI  POWER SUPPLY  CABLING AND EARTHING    The purpose of this section is to describe the minimum general equipment  characteristics and specifications for environmental conditions  source power  conditioning and backup  equipment construction  and installation  The section also  highlights the Electro Magnetic Compatibility  EMC  guidelines for equipment that will  be operated under the Electro Ma
62. es     CHANGE ORDERS    The Purchaser may at any time by written order given to the Supplier make changes  within the general scope of the contract in any one or more of the following      a  Drawings  designs or specifications where goods to be furnished under the  contract are to be specifically manufactured for the Purchaser    b  Method of transportation or packing    c  Place of delivery    d  Services to be provided by the supplier     If any such change causes an increase or decrease in the cost or the time required for  the execution of the contractor  an equitable adjustment shall be made in the contract  price or delivery schedule or both and the contract shall accordingly be amended     SUB LETTING    The Bidder cannot assign or transfer and sub contract its interest  obligations under the  contract without prior written permission of the Purchaser     LIQUIDATED DAMAGES    The date of the delivery of the goods stipulated in the acceptance of tender should be  deemed to be the essence of the contract and the delivery must be completed not later  than the dates specified therein  Extension in delivery period will not be given except in  exceptional circumstances  Should  however  deliveries be made after expiry of the  contract delivery period and accepted by the consignee  such deliveries will not deprive  the Purchaser of the right to recover Liquidated Damages     In case the Supplier fails to supply the material against the order  the material shall be  procured
63. esting have been corrected  and that the  communication equipment is compatible with other equipment at all locations  The  Integrated System Test shall include all fibre optic transmission equipment  the  network management subsystem and other components  which were integrated to the  communication system  The Integrated System Test shall include all fibre optic  transmission equipment  PABX system  network management subsystem and other  components     RFO SDH 41E doc Page 49 of 83    At a minimum the following tests shall be included in the integrated testing      2      3    4      5      4      5     Installation testing for TMN as per tables 2 8 and equipment  configuration shall be checked to establish that it supports the required  channel routing plan     End to End testing of all channels provided for TMN systems to  demonstrate proper operation    End to end testing of all individual voice circuits originating from  VOIP PABX or Phones and to establish proper interfacing with  PABX phones and to demonstrate proper operation of channels over  wideband system  Operation shall be checked in terms of quality of  voice  call initiation and call termination process    Data connectivity from SCADA DMS control centre with remote location   RTU location  shall be verified  Operation shall be checked in terms of  BER and packet loss for Ethernet interfaces   Testing of TMN to demonstrate proper operation of all functions    Configuration Management  Performance Management  F
64. f supply under CST     VALIDITY OF OFFER    The offer shall be valid for a period of 180 days from the date of opening of tender   Within that period  the bidder cannot withdraw his offer subject to the period being  extended further  if required  by mutual agreement from time to time     PERFORMANCE BANK GUARANTEE  PBG     The supplier shall submit within 10 days from the date of Purchase Order a  Performance Bank Guarantee for an amount equivalent to 10  of purchase order value   valid for 24 months from the date of receipt of supply at destination     PAYING AUTHORITY    JGM  F amp A   North   Telecommunications Consultants India Limited  TCIL Bhawan  Greater Kailash I    New Delhi 110048  India   Tel    91 11 26202701   Fax   91 11 26242266    CONSIGNEE    PGCIL  New Delhi   However  billing tax invoice to be raised in favour of TCIL  New Delhi     RFO SDH 41E doc Page 21 of 83    4 8 WARRANTY    Warrantee shall be 24 months from the date of supply acceptance of the  equipment material     4 9 DELIVERY PERIOD  To commence from February 2009 and be completed by April 2009     4 10 LIQUIDATED DAMAGES    A sum equal to 0 5  of any goods not delivered or total order value in case where part  delivery is of no use to the Purchaser  for a week or part of a week subject to maximum  limit of 5  of the total order will be recovered from the Supplier    4 11 INSPECTION TESTING OF MATERIALS  By TCIL PGCIL     412 QUANTITY VARIATION CLAUSE   30        END OF SECTION 4      RFO SDH 41
65. for FO cable  As built drawing for cable of installation   Site Drawings   Training documents   Maintenance Philosophy  amp  Procedures      END OF SECTION 9      RFO SDH 41E doc    Page 83 of 83    
66. g consumables which  the supplier is required to supply to the Purchaser under the Purchase Order        Letter of Intent  LOI     means the communication of the intention of the Purchaser to  the Bidder to place the Purchaser Order for the former   s offered goods services        Purchase Work Order  PO     means the order placed by the Purchaser on the Supplier    duly signed by the Purchaser   s authorized representative to purchase certain goods  amp   services from the vendor contractor        Contract Price    means considerations payable to the supplier contractor as stipulated  in the Purchase or Work Order for performance of specified contractual obligations     BIDDER TO BEAR COST OF PURCHASE OF TENDER   The Bidder shall bear all costs associated with the preparation and submission of the  bid  The Purchaser in any case will not be responsible or liable for these costs  regardless or the conduct of the bidding process     BID DOCUMENTS    Bid Documents includes       Section 1 Request for Offers    Section 2 Instructions to Bidders   Section 3 General  Commercial  Conditions of the Contract  Section 4 Special Conditions of Contract   Section 5 Bill of Quantity and Price Bid Schedule   Section 6 Technical Specifications    Section 7 Performance Bank Guarantee  PBG  Format  Section 8 Data Requirement Sheet  DRS     Any clarification or communications obtained from the Purchaser   AMENDMENT TO BID DOCUMENTS   At any time  prior to the date of submission of bids  the Pu
67. gibility criteria mentioned in the  R F O     b  Technical Offer    c  A statement showing Clause by Clause compliance to all the Terms  amp   Conditions of the RFO specified at Section 1  2  3  4  5 6 7  amp  8     Envelope 2 superscribed as PART II  Price Offer  shall contain the Price Bid    Schedule as per the format given in Section    5 of the Bid Document     A single sealed envelope containing both the envelopes  i e  Envelope 1  amp  Envelope 2  sealed separately  shall be addressed to the purchaser at the following address     RFO SDH 41E doc Page 10 of 83    Group General Manager  MM   Telecommunications Consultants India Limited   MM Division    TCIL Bhawan  Fourth Floor    Greater Kailash     I  New Delhi     110 048    Tel   91 11 26202020 Ext  2406   Fax   91 11 26242266 26241847    The envelopes should be superscribed    RFO No  TCIL 15 914 1 09 MM 41E dated  January 21  2009 for    Supply of SDH Equipment and Spares for FOCS PGCIL  Project    and also    Do not open before due date  date to be mentioned        The complete offer documents may be sent by the bidders by Courier Speed post  with  the envelope marked as above  Alternatively  RFO   s may also be deposited by the  tenderers in the tender box kept in MM Division at 4  floor at TCIL Bhawan     The tender box shall be sealed at the stipulated deadline for submission     The tender box shall be opened at the stipulated time of opening in the presence of  intending bidders     The names designations of 
68. gnetic Interference  EMI  and Electro Static  Discharge  ESD  conditions expected in an High Voltage  EHV  power system  environment     2 7 1 Environmental Requirements    Equipment and their components provided under this specification shall operate  reliably under the following environmental conditions     2 7 1 1 Temperature and Humidity    Most of the equipment will not be installed in environmentally controlled shelters   Therefore  equipment shall operate in accordance with the limits shown in Table 2 3     RFO SDH 41E doc Page 37 of 83    Table 2 3  Environmental Operating Limits                Temperature Range   Un Controlled Environment   To Specification Oto  45  C   Operation without damage  10 to  55   C  Shipping storage  40 to  60   C   Relative Humidity  non condensing Upto 90     Elevation     Operating to 3 500 m  Non operating to 10 000 m       For each location  the Contractor is required to assess the environmental conditions  for the equipment to be installed under this specification  The Contractor is  responsible for all necessary enclosure  rack or equipment upgrades to ensure the  proper operation of the installed equipment     2 7 1 2 EMI and Electrostatic Interference    At each location  the Contractor shall assess the need for shielding against radiated  emissions and shall provide recommended solutions for any EMI problem found at  each location     2 7 1 3 Tropicalization   Communications equipment will often be stored and operated in uncontro
69. h case     TCIL shall have the sole discretion in deciding the number of parties on whom the  orders shall be finally placed     PURCHASER   S RIGHT TO VARY QUANTITIES    The Purchaser reserves the right at the time of award of the contract to increase the  quantity of the goods and services specified in the schedule of requirements without  any change in unit price of the ordered quantity     In case of division of order among number of parties  The distribution of quantity will  be accordingly done by the Purchaser on an individual tender     PURCHASER   S RIGHT TO ACCEPT ANY BID AND TO REJECT ANY OR  ALL BIDS    The Purchaser does not bind himself to accept lowest or any other offer bid and has the  right to cancel the bidding process and reject all bids at any time prior to award of the  contract without assigning any reasons whatsoever and without thereby incurring any  liability to the affected bidder on the grounds for the Purchaser   s action     NOTIFICATION TO SUCCESSFUL BIDDER  Prior to the expiration of the bid period  the Purchaser will notify the successful bidder  in writing by registered letter or fax  to be confirmed in writing by registered letter  that    its bid has been accepted     Upon successful bidder furnishing of Performance Guarantee  the Purchaser will notify  each un successful bidder and will discharge its bid bond     RFO SDH 41E doc Page 9 of 83    2 20    2 20 1    Dad    2 21    2 22    2 23    2 24    ISSUE OF LETTER OF INTENT    The issue 
70. he noted deficiencies at no cost to the  Employer Owner  After correction of a deficiency  all necessary retests shall be  performed to verify the effectiveness of the corrective action     The test shall be considered complete when  a  when all variances have been resolved   b  all the test records have been submitted  c  Employer acknowledges in writing the  successful completion of the test     8 2 Inspection    Access to the Contractor s facilities while manufacturing and testing are taking place  and  to any facility where hardware software is being produced for Employer shall be available  to Employer Owner representatives  The Contractor shall provide to Employer Owner  representatives sufficient facilities  equipment  and documentation necessary to complete  all inspections and to verify that the equipment is being fabricated and maintained in  accordance with the Specification  Inspection rights shall apply to the Contractor s  facilities and to subcontractor facilities where equipment is being manufactured     Inspections will be performed by Employer Owner  which will include visual examination  of hardware  enclosure cable dressings  and equipment and cable labeling  Contractor  documentation will also be examined to verify that it adequately identifies and describes  all wiring  hardware and spare parts  Access to inspect the Contractor s hardware quality  assurance standards  procedures  and records that are applicable to the facilities shall be  provided to Emp
71. ich date  this Letter of Guarantee will become of no effect whatsoever whether returned to us or not        Authorized Signature  Manager  Seal of Bank    END OF SECTION 7      RFO SDH 41E doc Page 63 of 83    SECTION   8  Reference No   TCIL 15 914 1 09 MM 41 E January 21  2009    DATA REQUIREMENT SHEET FOR SDH EQUIPMENT  amp  SPARES          Manufacturer   Model       GENERAL OLTE FEATURES    SDH hierarchy level  STM  Capacity Aggregate Bit rate   CEPT E 1 Ports           Whether ADM  amp  TM are  configurable     Both equipment use same type of  Tributary card  PSU card     3  Protection OLTE   1 1 APS   E 1 Ports   1 N APS   STM 1 Ports   1 1 APS   STM 4 Ports   1 1 APS   8    Unprotected system gain for dBm  1 1 APS system gain for dBm    Unprotected  Hours  1 1 APS Protected     List Optical Coupling options           9  Remarks        RFO SDH 41E doc Page 64 of 83    DATA REQUIREMENTS SHEETS for                                                          SDH EQUIPMENT  Seq Parameter  Unit  Particulars   OPTICAL TRANSMITTER  Fill for all Types   10 Source  LED or Laser    rl Source wavelength  nm  12 Source spectral width  nm  1 Mean launched power Maximum  dBm  3     Nominal   End of Life   14 Launch power during safety power  dBm  f down due to fibre break   15 Stability  nominal power variation     i due to temperature and or biasing    16  Source rise time   17 Source estimated life span  hours  18 Source extinction ratio   19 Low power alarm threshold  dBm    field ad
72. id for participation in  the process     ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA     1  The vendor supplier should be either an Original Equipment Manufacturer  OEM   of SDH Equipment or its authorized distributor agent dealer     ii    OEM should be ISO certified     iii    Average Annual Financial Turnover during the last 3 years ending March 2008  should be at least Rs  73 26 lac  equivalent US  152 632      iv    Experience of having successfully supplied similar material during the last 2 years  ending December 31  2008 should be either of the following       a  Two similar supply orders each costing not less than Rs  58 61 lac   equivalent US  122 106  in not more than 8 weeks time from the date of  the client   s order    Or    b  One similar supply order costing not less than Rs  177 22 lac  equivalent  US 244 210  in not more than 8 weeks time from the date of the client   s  order      v  The bidders shall submit assessment report in the format enclosed as Annexure A     vi  The bidders shall submit the Data Requirement Sheet  DRS  which should be duly  filled up by the bidders with signature and company seal  Format enclosed as Section   8 of the RFO     Documentary evidence in support of the above eligibility criteria should be submitted   Two stage bid system shall be adopted  i e  Techno commercial and Price offer     The offer shall be submitted in the office of GGM  MM   TCIL  4h Floor  TCIL Bhawan   Greater Kailash I  New Delhi     110048 on or before 15 00 hrs   12 02 2009    
73. ied out while the inspection may be waived off by the Employer in  writing only     However  such inspection by the Employer s Owner   s representative s  shall not relieve  the Contractor from the responsibility for furnishing material  software  and equipment to  conform to the requirements of the Contract  nor invalidate any claim which the Employer  may make because of defective or unsatisfactory material  software or equipment     RFO SDH 41E doc Page 74 of 83    8 3 Test Plans and Procedures    Test plans for both factory and field tests shall be provided by the Contractor to  ensure that each test is comprehensive and verifies all the features of the equipment  are tested  The test plans for factory and field tests shall be submitted for Employer  approval before the start of testing     The contractor shall prepare detail testing procedure in line to specification and submit    for employer   s approval  The procedure shall be modular to the extent possible  which  shall facilitate the completion of the testing in the least possible time     8 3 1 Test Records    The complete record of all factory and field acceptance tests results shall be  maintained by the Contractor  The records shall be maintained in a logical form and  shall contain all the relevant information  The test reports shall be signed by the  testing engineer and the engineer witnessing the tests     8 3 2 Reporting of Variance   A variance report shall be prepared by either Employer or Contractor pers
74. is contract in whole or in part     a  if the supplier fails to deliver any or all the goods within the time period  s   specified in the contract  or any extension thereof granted by the Purchaser     b  if the Supplier fails to perform any other obligation s  under the contract  and   c  if the Supplier  in either of the above circumstances  does not remedy his failure  within a period of 15 days  or such longer period as the Purchaser may  authorize in writing  after receipt of the default notice from the Purchaser    d  On a notice period of 30 days     In the event the Purchaser terminates the contract in whole or in part pursuant to above  para the Purchaser may procure  upon such terms and in such manner as it deems  appropriate  goods similar to those undelivered and the Supplier shall be liable to the  Purchaser for any excess cost for such similar goods  However  the Supplier shall  continue the performance of the contract to the extent not terminated     RFO SDH 41E doc Page 18 of 83    3 19 TERMINATION FOR INSOLVENCY  The Purchaser may at any time terminate the Contract by giving written notice to the  Supplier  without compensation to the supplier if the supplier becomes bankrupt or  otherwise insolvent as declared by the competent court provided that such termination  will not prejudice or effect any right of action or remedy which has accrued or will  accrue thereafter to the purchaser     3 20 ADD ON ORDER    TCIL reserves the right to place Add on order for a
75. itecture and physical architecture   shall be in compliance with CCITT Recommendation M 3010     RFO SDH 41E doc Page 54 of 83    TMN shall also include the monitoring of the Ethernet interfaces Switching modules of SDH  equipment  or external layer 2 switches  for configuration  alarm and performance monitoring  as a minimum requirement     2 9 2 NMS Architecture  The NMS shall provide  a  Collection of Management data from all Network Elements  NEs  supplied under this  package   b  Processing of above management data by using processor s  located at control Centre   c  Monitoring and control of the NEs as defined below   D TMN system at Control Centre shall support management of all equipments  supplied and monitoring of the complete network supplied under this package  At  a minimum functions of Network Management Layer  NML  and Element  Management Layer  EML  as defined in CCITT M 3010 shall be provided  The  detailed functions are described below in this Section   II  Monitoring and control of NEs using Craft Terminals as defined in this section   d  Supervisory monitoring and control of the following station associated devices   D Intrusion Detection Alarms  I  Power Failure  HI  Fire and Smoke Detection  IV  Environmental Control  Temperature  Humidity etc    e  Communication channel support for TMN system    The supplied TMN system shall be capable of handling all management functions for at least  200   of the supplied network elements  Further  the centralised TMN
76. itten approval by owner  prior to  the completion of SAT     All field modifications of the hardware  firmware and software that is required to meet  installation and or performance specifications  shall be fully documented as part of the  deliverables  both as a separate field modifications record and as corrected  equipment configuration documentation     2 1 3 2 Equipment Capacities    Equipment supplied shall be sized and equipped with sufficient capacity to support the  circuit  channelization and configuration requirements  including spares  as identified  in the appendices    Each subsystem supplied shall be sized  to be equipped as specified  to support full  subsystem expansion     Data communications channelization required to support the TMN subsystems  specified in technical specifications are not identified in the appendices  Therefore  the  Contractor is required to size and equip the system to include all channelization and  channel cards required to support the TMN function    RFO SDH 41E doc Page 25 of 83    2 1 3 3 Redundancy Requirements and Protection Schemes    Equipment redundancy and Automatic Protection Schemes  APS  are specified in the  Table 2 1a     Table 2 1a  Equipment Redundancy Requirements Summary       Fiber Optic transmission System     SDH equipment  ADM and TM           Power Supply  amp  Converters                              1 1 APS or distributed power  Common Control  Cards                                  1 1 APS  Tributary Cards E1 
77. justable   20 Nominal receive signal strength  dBm  i End of Life   21 Receiver Threshold BER 107     dBm  22 Receiver overload limit  dBm  23 Spectral Bandwidth  3 dB point   nm  24 Digital Bandwidth  Mbps  25 Signal to noise   center wavelength          3 dB points              SERVICE CHANNELS AND ORDERWIRE UNIT          Engineering Orderwire  Fill for all type of Equipment        RFO SDH 41E doc    Page 65 of 83       DATA REQUIREMENTS SHEETS for                               SDH EQUIPMENT  Seq Parameter  Unit  Particulars   Omnibus calling available  Yes No  26     Describe   Selected station calling available  Yes No  27  as  Describe   28 Signalling scheme Describe   29  Tx Rx level dBm  30 Speech coding method  amp  bit rate Kbit s  Distortion  S Ng  31       Noise performance   32 Are Service channel requirements Yes No       specified in technical specs are met              RFO SDH 41E doc    Page 66 of 83       DATA REQUIREMENTS SHEETS for  SDH EQUIPMENT                Seq Parameter  Unit  Particulars              Voice Channels  Fill for all type of Equipment        33  Are Service channel requirements Yes No  specified in technical specs are met     SSS SS    35   Passbands  KO    36  _ Subseribersideimterfices     O    37   imput  amp outputtevel     m PO  Ee  39  40    Idle channel noise dBmOp    Distortion        Data and Supervisory Channels  Fill for all type of Equipment            No of data channels     Interfaces Connectors ar es  Dams Kops PO    ELECTRI
78. l be responsible for connectivity between the FODP and the SDH  equipment  The Contractor shall provide FC PC coupled patch cords of suitable length     The patch cord length between the FODP  amp  equipment rack shall be suitably protected from  rodents  abrasion  crush or mechanical damage otherwise by flexible conduits     The patch  cord return loss shall be equal to or better than 40 dB and insertion loss equal to or  less than 0 5 dB     2 9 TELECOMMUNICATION MANAGEMENT NETWORK    The Contractor shall provide a Telecommunication Management Network System  TMN  also  referred as NMS to provide operational support for the FOTS and associated equipment  This  TMN shall provide the capability to monitor  reconfigure  and control elements of the  telecommunications network from a centralized location and at each node of the network  where equipment is located  This TMN system shall assist Employer in the operations and  maintenance of the wideband communication resources including detection of degraded  equipment  system performance  the diagnosis of problems  the implementation of remedial  actions and the allocation or reallocation of telecommunications resources and  addition deletion of network elements     The bidder shall provide details of the offered TMN in the bid supporting all the features  The  furniture for placement of the TMN hardware shall be provided by the Contractor     2 9 1 Applicable Standards    The TMN design concept  functional and informational arch
79. l good or alter  the same to make it comply with the requirements of the contract and in any case within  a period not exceeding 2 months of the initial report  These replacements shall be made  by the Supplier  free of the all charges  at the site s      As regards Inspecting Authority and other details please refer to Special Condition of  the Contract  Section 4      TRAINING  WHERE REQUIRED     The Bidder shall provide training for installation and maintenance staff of the Purchaser  free of cost  where required     The Bidder shall specify in his bid the number of trainees  quantum of proposed  training  pre training qualifications required of the trainees and the duration of the  proposed training required     The Bidder shall provide all training materials and documents and aids     Conduct of training of the Purchaser   s personnel shall be at the suppliers    plant and  or  on site in assembly start up operation  maintenance and or repair of the supplied goods     WARRANTY    The Supplier shall give warranty that goods to be supplied shall be new and free from  all defects and faults in material  workmanship  and manufacture and shall be of the  highest grade and consistent with the established and generally accepted standards for  materials of the type ordered and shall perform in full conformity with the specifications  and drawings  The Supplier shall be responsible for any defects that may develop under  the conditions provided by the supplier and under proper us
80. l power and signal cabling between component units of the communications    systems shall be supplied and installed by the Contractor and shall be shown on  contractor supplied as built drawings     RFO SDH 41E doc Page 41 of 83    The Contractor shall supply and install all primary power cords  power strips   receptacles  circuit breakers  fuse panels  switches  earth fault detectors  surge  protectors  distribution cabling  and power connectors required to support all  equipment enclosures and system components furnished and installed under this  specification  except as specifically excluded  Plug type power connectors with captive  fastening  such as  Twist Lock   shall be used for interconnection of source power to  the equipment enclosures or racks  Plug type connectors with captive fasteners  i e   DB 25  etc  shall be used for the interconnection of all inter and intra enclosure  signalling cable     2 7 8 Locations for Supplied Equipment    All transmission equipment  the TMN and associated equipment shall generally be  collocated in the communications room located in the Control Room Building  whenever possible     2 7 9 Cable Routing    In case TMN workstations are located remotely  the Contractor shall provide all cable   wiring  long haul landline interfacing and installation to facilitate communication  channel requirements for the TMN     2 8 Testing Requirement    The Type Testing and Factory Acceptance Test are to be carried out are as follows  General  requi
81. lections  inter symbol interference  mode partition noise and  laser chirp      6  Maintenance Margin  A maintenance margin of at least 2 5 dB 100Km shall be kept  towards cabling  repair splicing  cable ageing and temperature variations etc      7  Other losses  Other losses  if any required specifically for system to be supplied shall also  be suitably considered     RFO SDH 41E doc Page 53 of 83     8  Dispersion  The fibre dispersion shall be taken to be the guaranteed maximum dispersion  i e 20 ps nm Km  1550 nm and 6 ps nm Km   1310 for DWSM fibres      9  Bit Error Rate  The link budget calculations shall be done for a BER of 10          The bidders shall determine the total link loss based on the above criteria and shall submit the  system design  including link budget calculation  and BoQ for SDH equipment     For finalising the FOTS system design  amp  BOQ  similar methodology shall be adopted taking  into account fibre attenuation  dispersion and splice loss determined during the detailed  engineering  Accordingly  additions and deletions from the contract shall be carried out based  on unit rates indicated in the contract     2 8 2 2 Link Performance    The Link performance for ES  SES and BER for the fibre optic links shall correspond to  National Network as defined in ITU T G 826  Further  the packet loss shall not be more than  one percent in any of the Ethernet circuits of the offered system     2 8 2 3 FODP to SDH Equipment Connectivity    The Contractor shal
82. ll demonstrate that the overall performance of the contract works satisfies every  requirement specified     The minimum site acceptance testing requirements for SDH equipment  NMS  Underground fibre optic cable  Joint box  PLB HDPE pipe  and FODP are described  in relevant sections of the technical specifications  This testing shall be supplemented  by the Contractor s standard installation testing program  which shall be in accordance  with his quality plan s   The Contractor shall be responsible for the submission of all  equipment supplied in this contract for site tests and inspection as required by the  Employer     8 8 Support Services    The Contractor shall ensure the availability of the service  spares and expansion parts  for the supplied equipments for a minimum period of 15 years from operational  acceptance by the Employer or 7 years from the date of withdrawal from production    whichever is earlier  However the termination of production shall not occur prior to  Operational Acceptance of the system by the Employer     8 9 Training Requirements    This section describes general requirements that apply to all training courses   Appendix B provides the training requirements  The Contractor shall submit the  training proposal along with the bid  The training content  schedule and location shall  be finalised during project executive      a  Training will be conducted by Contractors personnel  who are experienced  instructors and speak understandable English     b 
83. lled  environment areas and will be subject to mould  growth of fungus  corrosion and  oxidation  The equipment and components shall be suitably tropicalized during  manufacture through commissioning  as necessary    2 7 1 4 Contaminants   Communications equipment may be located in areas of poor air quality with the main  contaminant being dust  Cabinets shall be tight fitting utilizing filtered ventilation  openings only     2 7 2 Primary Source AC DC Power Requirements    Facility will be required to support both AC and DC power load requirements of  telecommunication equipments as specified below     2 7 2 1 AC Power Supply  It will be the Employer s responsibility to provide required Primary AC Power support  for communications equipment installed under this specification  The Primary AC    Power supplied will be 240 VAC   10   50Hz with a frequency variance between 46  and 55 Hz     RFO SDH 41E doc Page 38 of 83    All equipment and components provided under this specification requiring Primary AC  Power  shall be designed for normal operation under the above stated tolerances for  240 VAC supply     2 7 2 2  48V DC power Supply    Power supplies converters for communications equipment  except computer system  supplied as part of TMN which shall use 240 V AC  provided under this specification   shall use  48V DC uninterrupted primary source power  The contractor shall intimate  the Employer the requirement of maximum projected load at  48 V DC for their  equipment  The p
84. loyer Owner     RFO SDH 41E doc Page 73 of 83    8 2 1 Inspection Certificate    The Contractor shall give the Employer two weeks in case of domestic supplies and six  weeks in case of foreign supplies written notice of any material being ready for testing   Such tests shall be to the Contractor s account except for the expenses of the Inspector   The Employer  unless witnessing of the tests is waived  will attend such tests on the  scheduled date for which Employer has been so notified or on a mutually agreed  alternative date     The Employer shall  within fourteen  14  days from the date of inspection as defined  herein  give notice in writing to the Contractor of any objection to any drawings and all or  any equipment and workmanship which in his opinion is not in accordance with the  Contract  The Contractor shall give due consideration to such objections and shall make  the modifications that may be necessary to meet said objections  When the factory tests  have been completed successfully at the Contractor s or Sub contractor s works  the  Employer shall issue a certificate to this effect within fourteen  14  days after completion  of tests but if the tests are not witnessed by the Employer  the certificate shall be issued  within fourteen  14  days of receipt of the Contractor s Test Certificate by the Employer   The completion of these tests or the issue of the certificates shall not bind the Employer  to accept the equipment should it  on further tests after erectio
85. ms are described in    relevant section of technical specifications   RFO SDH 41E doc Page 77 of 83    8 6 1 Sampling for FAT    From each batch of equipment presented by the Contractor for Factory acceptance testing  the  Employer shall select random sample s  as described for specific items to be tested for acceptance in  relevant sections of the technical specifications  Unless otherwise agreed  all required FAT tests in the  approved FAT procedure shall be performed on all samples  The sampling rate for the Factory  acceptance tests for telecom equipment shall be 10  of the batch size  minimum 1   The Sampling  rate for the Factory acceptance tests shall be 10  of the batch size  minimum 2  for FO cable drums   FODPs  Joint box and other similar items  For PLB HDPE pipes  following sampling plan shall be  followed     E  Visual inspection and dimensional test shall be carried out on every length   All other test carried out as per sampling plan below            F    No  of pipes in H  Sample size  the lot L    Up to 150 Oo 3   151 to 1200 P  5   1201 and 3500 Q 8   3501 and above R  12                In case any of the selected samples fail  the failed sample is rejected and additional  20  samples shall be selected randomly and tested  In case any sample from the  additional 20  also fails the entire batch may be rejected     Since FAT testing provides a measure of assurance that the Quality Control objectives  are being met during all phases of production  the Employer 
86. n  be found not to comply  with the Contract     In cases where the Contract provides for tests  whether at the premises or works of the  Contractor or of any Sub contractor  the Contractor except where otherwise specified  shall provide free of charge items such as labour  materials  electricity  fuel  water stores   apparatus and instruments  as may be reasonably demanded by the Employer or his  authorized representative to carry out effectively such tests of the equipment in  accordance with the Contract and shall provide facilities to the Employer or his authorized  representative to accomplish testing     The inspection by Employer and issue of Inspection Certificate thereon  shall in no way  limit the liabilities and responsibilities of the Contractor in respect of the agreed Quality  Assurance Program forming a part of the Contract     The Contractor shall keep the Employer informed in advance of the time of starting of the  progress of manufacture of material in its various stages so that arrangements can be  made for inspection     Record of routine test reports shall be maintained by the Contractor at his works for  periodic inspection by the Employer s Owner   s representative     Certificates of manufacturing tests shall be maintained by the Contractor and produced  for verification as and when desired by the Employer  No material shall be dispatched  from its point of manufacture until it has been satisfactorily inspected and tested  Testing  shall always be carr
87. nd thereafter operation of the system  The contractor  shall obtain approval of Employer for the relevant document at each stage before  proceeding for manufacturing  system development  factory testing  site testing   training etc  The schedule for submission approval of each document shall be finalised  during the discussions before placement of the contract  this schedule shall be in line  to overall project schedule     Each document shall be identified by a Contractor document number  the employer  document number  and the employer purchase order number  Where a document is  revised for any reason  each revision shall be indicated by a number  date  and  description in a revision block along with an indication of official approval by the  Contractor s project manager  Each revision of a document shall highlight all changes  made since the previous revision     The contractor shall submit two hard copies of each document drawing for employer   s  review and approval along with soft copy with each submission  After approval two  sets of all the documents shall be submitted as final documentation  however  for site  specific documents two sets of documents shall be provided for each site  Any  changes observed during field implementation shall be incorporated in the as built  drawing and required sets of the same shall be submitted to Employer  In addition to  paper copies all the documents shall also be provided on electronic media in two  copies  In case any documentation
88. nectorised end  The signal cable wire identifier shall include a cable identifier and  the location of both terminations  Signal cable wiring installed on terminal blocks  requires marking with the cable identifier and distant end location  The cable tag shall  be clearly visible at the cable fan out point     All signal cable  wiring and terminations shall be clearly labeled tagged with identifiers  consistent with Contractor supplied cable plant records  Marking techniques are  subject to approval by the Employer     2 7 4 Equipment Sub Racks and Cabinets  Enclosures     All equipment provided under this specification  shall be physically mounted in sub   racks and cabinets  enclosures   The Contractor shall determine and propose for the  Employer approval  the type  size  weight and manner of installation for each location   All equipment racks  enclosures and equipment  including distribution frames  shall be  clearly labeled with unique identifiers     RFO SDH 41E doc Page 39 of 83    Selection of equipment sub racks and cabinets  enclosures  shall meet the following  requirements      A  Equipment Sub Rack Construction    Equipment Sub Racks provided for installation in environmentally controlled facilities   shall meet the following minimum requirements      1      2      3     Equipment Sub Racks shall be steel aluminium fabricated and finished  on all surfaces  All metal and welds shall be thoroughly cleaned and  sanded to obtain a smooth finish  All surfaces shall b
89. o convert Repeaters to  Add Drop Multiplexer        Whether Equipment is Up gradable   From To   STMI STM4 Yes no  STMI STM16 Yes no       3  Expected life of Equipment       Patch Cords    a    E  Speen toe e o    7  Return Loss             8    Connector Type        END OF SECTION 8      RFO SDH 41E doc Page 72 of 83    SECTION   9  Reference No   TCIL 15 914 1 09 MM 41 E January 21  2009    INSPECTION  TESTING  TRAINING  SUPPORT SERVICES AND  DOCUMENTATION    This Section describes the specific requirements for Inspection  Testing  Training   support services and documentation requirements of the Fibre Optic Communication  System Package     8 1 General    All materials furnished and all work performed under this Contract shall be inspected  and tested  Deliverables shall not be shipped until all required inspections and tests  have been completed  and all deficiencies have been corrected to comply with this  Specification and approved for shipment by the Employer     The entire cost of testing for factory  amp  site acceptance  routine tests  production tests  and other test during manufacture  amp  site activities specified herein shall be treated as  included in the quoted unit price of materials  except for the expenses of  Inspector Employer   s representative     Should any inspections or tests indicate that specific item does not meet Specification  requirements  the appropriate items shall be replaced  upgraded  or added by the  Contractor as necessary to correct t
90. o meet all the functional requirement and expansion capabilities  stipulated in this specification  Only reputed make like Dell  IBM  HP make shall be  supplied     The server shall have minimum configuration of 3GHz for CISC based or 1 6GHz for  RISC based processor  2GB RAM  DVD ROM drive  redundant 80 GB internal Hard  Disk Drive  101 Enhanced style keyboards  mouse  parallel  serial and USB 2 0   ports  VDUs shall be 17  TFT active matrix color LCD with a minimum resolution of  1024 X 768  Appropriate network drive card shall also be provided wherever  required  However  the internal hard disk drive for the server shall be redundant and  all the data shall be mirrored  Further  the TMN software shall support data mirroring  on redundant disk drives     The workstation shall have minimum configuration of 2 4Ghz for CISC or 1 4GHz for  RISC based processor  1GB RAM  DVD RW drive  160 GB Hard Disk Drive  101   Enhanced style keyboards  mouse  parallel  serial and USB  2 0  ports  VDUs shall  be 19  TFT active matrix color LCD with a minimum resolution of 1024 X 768   Appropriate network drive card shall also be provided wherever required     CPU enclosures shall be desktop type and shall include available expansion slots  except for the Craft Terminal which shall be a laptop  The craft terminal shall have  minimum configuration of 1 83 GHz  1GB RAM  256 MB VRAM  DVD RW drive  100  GB Hard Disk Drive  keyboard  mouse trackball etc   LAN  serial  USB  2 0  ports to  accommodat
91. o support  system availability  These lists shall include all relevant technical descriptions and  recommended minimum quantities based upon the guidelines consistent with the  telecommunications resource management hierarchy and continuing maintenance    RFO SDH 41E doc Page 80 of 83    concept  The recommended test equipment shall not be considered for evaluation but    may be included in the final scope of supply at the discretion of Employer  8 13 Miscellaneous Supplies    The Contractor shall provide all required consumable and non consumable supplies necessary to  support all installation and test activities through final operational acceptance     8 14 System Maintenance  8 14 1 Defect Liability Period    The one year period commencing immediately after the operational acceptance is  called the Defect liability Period  Operational Acceptance shall be given on successful  completion of SAT  During this period  the Contractor shall replace or repair all  defective parts and shall be responsible for maintaining an operational system to  achieve the availability of 99 8  for subscriber to subscriber  The fibre optic cable  outage  due to conditions not in control of the Contractor  shall not be considered in  the availability calculations  The contractor maintenance engineer shall report to the  site for restoration of the system within 6 hrs excluding travel time in case of complete  break down of the link  Within four  4  months from Contract Award Date  the  Contractor 
92. oIP based voice connectivity and connectivity to various sites at El  level  For Voice connectivity  all the locations  substations  amp  control centres  shall be  connected through VoIP system  VoIP gateways EPABX along with DTMF  telephone sets  for 20 subscribers  shall be provided at control centre location and at  other locations  for 4 subscribers   The VoIP gateways to be provided at the control  centers shall be interconnected with the suitable EPABX system  However the VoIP  gateways to be provided at the other locations shall be directly connected through  telephones     The contractor shall develop numbering plan for the proposed voice communication system     The communication links based on fibre optic network shall be based on the lowest bit rate of  the Synchronous Digital Hierarchy  SDH  ie  STM 1  The Contractor  however can propose a  system  if required  based on higher bit rate system so as to meet the link budget and  upgradeability requirements  The detailed BoQ is described in Appendix B     There may be some RTU locations which are few hundred mtrs  approx 250 mtrs   apart  In such cases single SDH equipment shall be used  The Contractor shall be  responsible for extending the voice  amp  data of the RTU up the SDH node and shall    RFO SDH 41E doc Page 23 of 83    supply all necessary hardware  amp  accessory such as media converter  cable  switch  etc  for the same at no additional cost to the Employer     2 1 2 General Systems Requirements    Under
93. of Letter of Intent shall constitute the intention of the Purchaser to place the  Purchase Order with the successful bidder     The bidder shall within 10 days of issue of Letter of Intent give its acceptance along  with Performance Guarantee in conformity with the bid documents     CANCELLATION OF LETTER OF INTENT    Failure of the successful bidder to comply with the requirement of submission of  Performance Guarantee in time shall constitute sufficient ground for the cancellation of  the acceptance of bid and forfeiture of the bid bond  in which case Purchaser may make  the offer to any other bidder at the discretion of the Purchaser or call for new bids     POST BID CLARIFICATIONS    No post bid clarification at the initiative of the bidders shall be entertained and any  effort by the bidders to influence the Purchaser in the Purchaser   s bid evaluation  bid  comparison or award of the contract shall result in rejection of the bid     DELIVERY   Delivery of the goods shall be made by the supplier in accordance with the terms  specified by the Purchaser in the Special condition of the contract and goods shall  remain at the risk of the supplier until delivery have been completed in full  The  Schedule of delivery shall be the essence of the contract     SUBMISSION OF BID    Sealed offer shall be submitted in two separate envelops     Envelope 1 superscribed as PART 1  Techno Commercial Offer  shall contain the    following     a  Documentary evidence in respect of the eli
94. onnel each  time a deviation from specification requirements is detected during inspection or  testing  All such variances shall be closed in mutually agreed manner    However  at any stage if employer feels that quality of variances calls for suspension    of the testing the testing shall be halted till satisfactory resolution of variances  which  may involve retesting also     8 3 3 Test Periods Defined    The terminology used in bidding documents and their correlation with the tests  requirements described within this section is as follows     a  Pre Commissioning  amp  Commissioning Period   The Site Acceptance Test  SAT   b  Operational Acceptance   Successful completion of SAT    The Site Acceptance Test  SAT  requirements are specified in the relevant sections   The successful completion of SAT will lead to Operational acceptance    8 4 Testing Requirements   Following are the requirements of testing for Fibre Optic Communication system   1  Type Testing   2  Factory Acceptance Testing    3  Site Acceptance testing    RFO SDH 41E doc Page 75 of 83    8 5    Type Testing     Type Tests  shall be defined as those tests which are to be carried out to prove the  design  process of manufacture and general conformity of the materials to this  Specification     Type Testing shall comply with the following      a      b      c      d      e      f      g      h     The Contractor shall submit  within 30 days of Contract Award  copies of test reports  for all of the Type Tests 
95. ower supply may vary normally within the voltage range  42 to  58 V  DC and the supplied equipment shall operate satisfactorily within this range     2 7 2 3 Power Distribution and Protection    The Employer will furnish one source primary 240 VAC and or  48 VDC power in  each building  However  the equipment shall facilitate termination of two sources  It  shall be the Contractor s responsibility for the connection and distribution of all Primary  AC and  48V dc source power  in full compliance with all local and national electrical  codes     The Employer shall indicate during the survey by Contractor  on the primary source   the feeders points that can be used by the Contractor  The Contractor shall provide  required distribution panels  circuit breakers and appropriate Panel Disconnects   Distribution Panel feeders  Panel Disconnects  distribution panels and circuit breakers  shall be sized and equipped to support at least 100  expanded load requirements     The Contractor shall provide and install all required primary power distribution sourced  from the distribution panels  The Contractor is responsible for all inter rack  enclosure   and intra rack  enclosure  power distribution required to support equipment supplied  under this specification  The Contractor shall provide all cabling  fusing  switching and  circuit breaker and surge protection required     2 7 3 Signal Cabling    Connectorised signal cabling wiring requires marking with a unique identifier at each  con
96. pecified availability figures it is required that the  Bidders shall include in their proposal a calculated availability analysis for the  proposed equipment  sub system  The calculated failure rates of the units and the  calculated availabilities of the equipment being offered shall be provided in the  proposal  The analysis shall be based on an availability block diagram and shall  include the mean time between failure  MTBF  and mean time to repair  MTTR  of all  of the components on the link  The Contractor shall indicate in the analysis the MTBF  and MTTR and the resulting availability of each point to point link  For this analysis  an  MTTR of at least 4 hours  shall be assumed     2 1 3 2 1 3General Equipment Characteristics    All Contractor supplied equipment shall be new and of the finest production quality   The Purchaser will not accept modules or printed circuit boards that are modified by  appending wires or components  Wired strapping options shall be incorporated in the  board design to meet the above requirement     All applicable requirements stated in this section shall equally apply to the NMS  equipment    2 1 3 1 Revision Levels and Modifications    All hardware  firmware and software delivered as part of the communications network  shall be field proven and at the most current revision level  All modifications and  changes necessary to meet this requirement shall be completed prior to the start of  the factory tests or under special circumstances  on wr
97. per operation of all functions  Configuration  Management  Performance Management  Fault Management and Security  Management  All standard features and required customization of the TMN shall be  demonstrated for proper functioning     2 8 4 Site Acceptance Tests  SAT     The SAT Shall be completed in following phases     2 8 4 1 Installation Testing    The field installation test shall be performed for all equipment at each location  If any  equipment has been damaged or for any reason does not comply with this  Specification  the Contractor shall provide and install replacement parts at its own cost  and expense     In the installation test report  the Contractor shall include a list of all hardware or  components replaced or changed between the completion of factory tests and the  start of field tests and show that documentation and spare parts have been updated     RFO SDH 41E doc Page 48 of 83    The minimal installation testing requirements for the fiber optic transmission  subsystem are provided in Table 2 7    2 8 4 2 Link Commissioning Tests    The commissioning tests shall verify that communication can be performed over the  fiber optic link under test  In addition  Bit Error measurements and service channel  performance monitoring shall be made on the fibre optic links to verify compliance with  designed link performance     For Ethernet interface  At a minimum the following test requirements shall be  demonstrated as per RFC 2544     a  Ping Test  b  Through Put  
98. ports based on system statistics such as daily  weekly   monthly yearly performance reports     2 3 3 4 Security Management    The TMN shall be provided with security features to limit access to monitoring and  control capabilities to only authorized personnel  One access level of System  Administrator and at least two levels of operator access shall be provided   read only   and write  The system administrator shall be able to create  define and modify  operators with different access levels  network domains and perform all kind of  maintenance and up gradation of the TMN system  With  read only  access level   network parameters should only be viewed  Access to database maintenance   command control and test functions shall be available with  write    access level  Means  shall be provided to ensure only one authorized user has write capability for a  selected domain of the network  It shall be possible to define multiple domains for the  purpose of monitoring and control     Human error and conflict detection are also required  Such errors and access  violations shall be reported to the offending user as error messages and warnings     2 3 4 Communication Channel Requirements and Integration    Communication requirements for TMN system have not been considered in  Appendices and the Contractor shall provide these as a part of TMN system  The  Contractor shall provide all required interface cards   devices  LAN  routers bridges   channel routing  cabling  wiring etc  and in
99. provided under clause 2 8 1   a  shall also be suitably extended  A bidder accepting the request and granting  extension will not be permitted to modify his bid     FORMAT OF SIGNING OF THE BID    The bidder shall prepare two copies of the bid clearly marking as one copy as    Original  Copy    and the other as    Copy     amp  also provide softcopy of technical bid on CD ROM  in MS Word format     In the event of any discrepancy between them  original shall prevail     The original copy of the bid shall be typed and shall be signed by the bidder or a person  duly authorized by the bidder  The Letter of Authorization shall be accompanied by a  written Power of Attorney accompanying the bid     All pages of the original bid except printed literature shall be initialed by the person  signing the bid     The bid shall contain no interlineations  erasures or overwriting except as necessary to  correct errors made by the bidder in which case such corrections shall be initialed by  the bidder signing the bid     RFO SDH 41E doc Page 7 of 83    2 11    2 12    2 13    2 13 1    2 13 2    2 14    2 14 1    2 14 2    2 14 3    2 15    2 15 1    2 15 2    2 16    2 16 1    DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF BID    Bid must be received by the Purchaser at the address specified and not later than the  date and time specified in the NIT     LATE BID    Any bid received late by the Purchaser after the deadline for submission of the bid shall  be rejected and returned un opened to the bidder     MO
100. ptical  fibre and the link budget     NOTE  2  Eye Safety for Laser Equipment  To avoid eye damage  when a receiver detects  a line interruption  it is required that the optical power of the laser shall be reduced  to safe limits on the transmitter in the opposite direction as per ITU T G 958     NOTE  3  In case other than FC PC connector is provided in the equipment suitable patch  cord with FC PC connectors are to be provided to connect with FODP     2 8 2 Optical Link Performance Requirements  The optical fibre link performance requirements are specified as follows   2 8 2 1 Link Budget Calculations  The fibre optic link budget calculations shall be calculated based upon the following criteria      1  Fibre attenuation  The fibre attenuation shall be taken to be the guaranteed maximum fibre  attenuation i e  0 21 dB Km  1550nm and 0 35 dB km  1310nm      2  Splice loss  Minimum 0 05 dB per splice  One splice shall be considered for every 2 kms      3  Connector losses  Losses due to connectors shall be considered to be minimum 1 0 dB per  link      4  Equipment Parameters  The equipment parameters to be considered for link budget  calculations shall be the guaranteed    End of Life  EOL     parameters  In case  the End of Life  parameters are not specified for the SDH equipment  an End of Life Margin of at least 2 dB  shall be considered      5  Optical path Penalty  An optical path penalty of at least 1 dB shall be considered to account  for total degradations due to ref
101. r     2 7 5 Lightning and Transient Voltage Protection    The Contractor shall be required to provide protection from lightning and transient  voltages for all telecommunications equipment  in accordance with the following      1     At the outside cable plant point of entry of all cabling penetrations for all  cabling installed by the Contractor  the Contractor shall provide lightning  and transient voltage isolation for the inside plant cabling  wiring  and all  terminations and equipment     RFO SDH 41E doc Page 40 of 83     2  All equipment installed under this specification that requires 240VAC  primary power  shall be surge protected     2 7 6 Station Safety Earthing and Signal Grounding    For each facility  the Contractor is responsible for meeting the following station and  equipment earthing requirements      1  All safety earthing and signal grounding shall be in full compliance with  EMI EMC requirements as per relevant international standards     2  Each cabinet  enclosure  or cabinet  enclosure  group shall include  suitable signal ground and safety earth networks  The signal ground  network shall terminate at a separate signal ground stud connection  isolated from safety earth      3  Each earth ground network shall utilize copper bus bars  copper braids  and or 16 sqmm or bigger earth cable  All equipment earth ground  connections shall be made directly to the equipment chassis utilizing  grounding lugs and secured metal to metal with star washers  Use of the 
102. r  actual  implementation of protection scheme  MSP or SNCP  shall be finalized during detailed  engineering    RFO SDH 41E doc Page 27 of 83    2 2 1 3 Service Channel    Service channels shall be provided as a function of the SDH equipment and shall be  equipped with Service Channel Modems that shall provide at a minimum  One voice  channel  order wire  with analog interface  0 3 to 3 4 kHz  and One data channel   Both omnibus and selective calling facilities shall be provided  There shall be a facility  to extend the line system order wire to any other system or exchange lines on 2W 4W  basis     2 2 1 4 Supervision and Alarms    ISM  In Service Monitoring  circuitry shall be provided as a function of the SDH  equipment  Local visual alarm indicators shall be provided on the equipment  as a  rack summary alarm panel  Alarms shall be as per ITU T Standards G 774  G 783 and  G 784  Additionally  F2 and Q2 interfaces for a local craftsperson terminal interface  and remote equipment monitoring is required     The Equipment shall support collection of at least four  4  external alarms for  monitoring and control of station associated devices by the TMN  The Employer shall  identify the alarm contact points during survey   detailed engineering and the wiring  supply  installation and termination from these external points to the installed  equipment shall be carried out by the Contractor    2 2 1 5 Synchronisation Output    The equipment shall provide synchronisation as per tabl
103. rchaser may for any reason   whether at its own initiative or in response to a clarification requested by a prospective    bidder  modify the bid documents by amendments     The amendments will be notified in writing or by telex or fax to all prospective bidders  who have received the bid documents and these amendments will be binding on them     RFO SDH 41E doc Page 6 of 83    2 5    2 6    2 7    2 8    2 9    2 10    2 10 1    2 10 2    2 10 3    2 10 4    2 10 5    EXTENSION OF TIME  In order to give prospective bidders required time in which to take the amendments into  action in preparing their bid  the Purchaser may at its discretion extend the deadline for  submission of bid suitably     BID PRICE    Unit prices rates shall be quoted as given in Special Conditions of the tender in  Section     4     BIDDERS ELIGIBILITY AND QUALIFICATIONS   Bidder shall furnish as a part of bid documents establishing the bidder   s eligibility to  supply the material  The bidder shall also submit documentary evidence in the form of  literature  drawing  data on the goods offered    BID SECURITY   No EMD Bid Security need be submitted along with the offer    VALIDITY PERIOD OF BID    Bid shall remain valid for 180 days after the date of bid opening  The bid valid for a  shorter period shall be rejected by the Purchaser as non responsive     In exceptional circumstances  the purchaser may request the consent of the bidder for  an extension to the period of bid validity  The bid security 
104. rement of testing is given in Section 08     2 8 1 Type Testing    The Contractor shall submit previously carried out type test for the SDH equipment  If  the test reports are found satisfactory the Employer may waive off the requirement of  the type testing  If the Contractor fails to submit the relevant type test report or if  Employer recommends necessity of the type testing  the test specified below in this  section shall be carried out by the Contractor  The Contractor shall demonstrate the  performance of the offered equipment in conformance to the approved DRS  The  functional tests shall be carried out on one sample before commencement of the type  tests mentioned below and shall be repeated after the completion of these type tests   Further  the following functional checks shall be done during and after each type test  in order to check the satisfactory performance of the equipment     a BER monitoring test and packet loss test for Ethernet Interface  b Alarm status    2 8 2 List of Type Tests    The type testing requirement for communication equipment is defined in the section  below     2 8 2 1 Temperature and Humidity Tests    The tests listed below are defined in IEC Publication 68   RFO SDH 41E doc Page 42 of 83     a  Low Temperature Test  Operation to Specifications    Low temperature tests shall be conducted as defined in IEC Publication 68 2 1  test  method and  with the following specifications      1      2    3     Test Duration  The equipment is started 
105. reserves the right to  require the Contractor to investigate and report on the cause of FAT failures and to  suspend further testing  approvals until such a report is made and remedial actions  taken  as applicable     8 6 2 Production Testing    Production testing shall mean those tests which are to be carried out during the  process of production by the Contractor to ensure the desired quality of end product to  be supplied by him  The production tests to be carried out at each stage of production  shall be based on the Contractors standard quality assurance procedures  The  production tests to be carried out shall be listed in the Manufacturing Quality Plan   MQP   along with information such as sampling frequency  applicable standards   acceptance criteria etc     The production tests would normally not be witnessed by the Employer  However  the  Employer reserves the right to do so or inspect the production testing records in  accordance with Inspection rights specified for this contract     8 7 Site Acceptance Tests    The Contractor shall be responsible for carrying out site tests and inspection for all  equipment supplied in this contract as required by the Employer  All equipment shall  be tested on site under the conditions in which it will normally operate  Site  acceptance testing shall be carried out for underground fibre optic cable  joint box   PLB HDPE pipe  FODP  SDH equipment  TMN etc  The tests shall be exhaustive and    RFO SDH 41E doc Page 78 of 83    sha
106. s and executors  and having entered into an  agreement dated  issued Purchase Order No TCIL 15  dated  with on M s     hereinafter referred to as    The Supplier    which expression unless repugnant to the content or  meaning thereof  shall include all the successors  administrators  and executors            WHEREAS the Supplier having unequivocably accepted to supply the materials as per terms  and conditions given in the Agreement dated  Purchase Order No    dated and TCIL having agreed that the Supplier  shall furnish to TCIL a Performance Guarantee for the faithful performance of the entire  contract  to the extent of 10   ten percent  of the value of the Purchase Order i e  for             We      The Bank     which shall include  OUR successors  administrators and executors herewith establish an irrevocable Letter of  Guarantee No  in your favour for account of        The Supplier  in cover of performance guarantee in accordance with the terms and conditions  of the Agreement Purchase Order     Hereby  we undertake to pay up to but not exceeding  say  only  upon receipt by us of your first written demand  accompanied by your declaration stating that the amount claimed is due by reason of the  Supplier having failed to perform the Agreement and despite any contestation on the part of  above named Supplier        This Letter of Guarantee will expire on including 30 days of claim period and  any claims made hereunder must be received by us on or before expiry date after wh
107. se to  equipment failures  planned upgrades  and operator requests to take equipment  offline for testing     Provide verification testing to support new equipment installation     2 9 3 2 Fault Management    Fault management is concerned with detecting  diagnosing  bypassing  directing service  restoral  and reporting on all the backbone network equipment  system and links  Minimum  specific requirements that shall be satisfied include the following     a     g   RFO SDH 41    Display equipment status in a consistent fashion regardless of the source of the  data on a graphical topological  map type display  Status shall be displayed  through the use of colours on links and nodes as well as through text     Obtain status and detect faults through periodic polling  processing of unsolicited  alarms and error events  and periodic testing for connectivity     Maintain an alarm summary of unacknowledged alarm events on the management  station display and maintain a log of all received alarms  The operator shall be  able to acknowledge and clear alarms individually and as a group  The use of  alarm correlation techniques is encouraged to minimize the proliferation of alarms  caused by a single  common event  All alarms shall be configurable as critical  alarms  major alarms and minor alarms with different colours like red   amber orange  blue etc  The normal condition shall be green  preferably  in colour     Provide the capability to diagnose and isolate failures through analysis
108. shall submit a comprehensive maintenance strategy for the maintenance of  the system during the Defect Liability Period  For this period which commences  immediately after operational acceptance  the actual outage frequency and the  availability achieved during the period shall be calculated periodically  jointly by the  Contractor and the Employer     During the Defect Liability Period  the spare parts  test equipment and tools and  tackles supplied by the Contractor to Employer under the present procurement  including items in both the    Mandatory    and    Recommended    lists  shall be issued as  required by the Contractor  Only these supplied items and no additional items  with the  exception of general purpose toolkits  shall be used by the Contractor for all its testing  and preventive  amp  restorative maintenance activities     If any additional test equipment or spare parts are required or found to be required   these additional items shall be provided by the Contractor  within a reasonable time   up to the expiry of the Defect liability Period  at no additional cost to Employer   Further  in such case the list of    recommended    spare parts and test equipment and  tools  amp  tackles shall be reviewed to identify further spares and test equipment  requirement  which shall have to be provided by the Contractor at no additional cost to  Employer  Since the spare parts shall be    issued for use     by the end of the Defect  Liability Period  the Contractor shall r
109. stations  peripherals       2 8 1 SDH Equipment  2 8 1 1 Functional Requirement    The offered equipment shall be configurable either SDH Terminal Multiplexer  TM  or SDH  Add Drop Multiplexer  ADM  or Digital Cross Connect  DXC   For the purpose of the BoQ   the SDH Equipment is considered to be divided in three parts i e  Optical cards  Line    Tributary Cards  Electrical Tributaries such as E1  amp  Ethernet 10 100 Mbps interface  and  Base Equipment  Consisting of Common Cards  Power supply cards  power cabling  sub   rack  other hardware and accessories required for installation of equipment i e  everything  besides optical cards and tributary cards      The offered equipment shall support at least four optical directions with STM 1 as aggregate  interfaces  4 Ethernet Interfaces  amp  4 E1 interfaces as tributaries  The SDH equipment shall be  equipped with required aggregate and tributary interfaces based on the network topology as  indicated in the BOQ  The offered equipment shall support the following network topologies     d  TM  with protected unprotected aggregates   e  ADM  with protected unprotected aggregates   f  DXC  with protected unprotected aggregates     The ADM Equipment shall be capable of VC 12 level Cross Connection of up to 4 STM   lequivalent and support mapping of each Ethernet interface over any single or multiple VC   12s The equipment shall support VC 12 cross connection in all the 4 directions  The  equipment shall provide access to full STM1 P
110. terfacing required for full TMN data  transport     The TMN data transport shall utilize the fibre optic communications transmission  system service channel in the overhead whenever possible  This will provide inherent  critical path protection     In case supervisory channels are not available  the Contractor shall provide suitable  interfaces in their supplied equipment for transport of TMN data  The Contractor shall  also be responsible for providing suitable channels with appropriate interfaces to  transport the TMN data     The bidders shall describe in the proposal the TMN data transport proposed to be  used by the bidder in detail including capacity requirements and various  components equipment proposed to be used     RFO SDH 41E doc Page 34 of 83    2 3 5 Craft Terminal    Each SDH equipment on the telecom network shall include provision for connecting a  portable personal computer  PC  to be known as craft terminal to support local  commissioning and maintenance activities  It shall also be possible to remote login to  other NE s  through craft terminal  Through the use of this PC and local  displays controls  the operator shall be able to     a    Change the configuration of the station  amp  the connected NEs   b  Perform tests    C  Get detailed fault information    2 3 6 Hardware Requirements  2 3 6 1 Master Processor  Server Workstation and Craft Terminal    The server workstation and craft terminal shall have Dual Core processor s  which  shall be sufficient t
111. that are specified in the specifications and that have previously  been performed  These reports may be accepted by the Employer only if they apply to  materials and equipment that are essentially identical to those due to be delivered under  the Contract and only if test procedures and parameter values are identical to those  specified in this specifications carried out at accredited labs and witnessed by third  party   customer   s representatives    Type Tests shall be performed for all equipment types for which report is not provided  for the tests mentioned in the Technical Specification  In this case type testing shall be  carried out by the Contractor and no payment shall be made     If the reports are submitted for the specified tests  however if it is determined by the  Employer that the report provided is not acceptable  the same shall be carried out by the  Contractor again  The bidder shall quote testing charges for each type test individually  and payment shall be made for successful tests accordingly     Type Tests shall be certified or performed by reputed laboratories using material and  equipment data sheets and test procedures that have been approved by the Employer  The  test procedures shall be formatted as defined in the technical specifications and shall  include a complete list of the applicable reference standards and submitted for Employer  approval at least four  4  weeks before commencement of test s   The Contractor shall  provide the Employer at l
112. ting support systems  At a  minimum  a console shall include the hardware similar to a workstation     2 9 7 General Software Firmware Requirements    Due to various alternative design approaches  it is neither intended nor possible to specify all  software and firmware characteristics  It is the intent herein to provide design boundaries and  guidelines that help to ensure a demonstrated  integrated program package that is maintainable  and meets both hardware systems requirements and the customer s operational requirements     2 9 7 1 Software Utilities    A utility shall be provided to convert all reports into standard PC application formats i e  dbase   dxf  excel  ASCII etc  as applicable     2 9 7 2 Revisions  Upgrades  Maintainability    Software revisions  upgrades and maintainability are specified below    All firmware and software delivered under this specification shall be the latest field proven  version available at the time of approval  Installed demonstration for acceptance shall be  required  All firmware provided shall support its fully equipped intended functional  requirements without additional rewrite or programming     All software shall be easily USER expandable to accommodate the anticipated system growth   as defined in this specification     RFO SDH 41E doc Page 59 of 83    Software provided shall be compliant with national and international industry standards such as  IEEE  ISO and OSF    2 9 7 3 Database s     The contractor shall develop all the d
113. to support local commissioning and  maintenance activities  It shall also be possible to remote login to other NE s  through craft  terminal  Through the use of this PC and local displays controls  the operator shall be able to     a  Change the configuration of the station  amp  the connected NEs   b  Perform tests    c  Get detailed fault information    2 9 6 Hardware Requirements  2 9 6 1 Master Processor  Server Workstation and Craft Terminal    The server workstation and craft terminal shall have Dual Core processor s  which shall be  sufficient to meet all the functional requirement and expansion capabilities stipulated in this  specification  Only reputed make like Dell  IBM  HP make shall be supplied    The server shall have minimum configuration of 3GHz for CISC based or 1 6GHz for RISC  based processor  2GB RAM  DVD ROM drive  redundant 80 GB internal Hard Disk Drive   101 Enhanced style keyboards  mouse  parallel  serial and USB 2 0  ports  VDUs shall be 17   TFT active matrix color LCD with a minimum resolution of 1024 X 768  Appropriate  network drive card shall also be provided wherever required  However  the internal hard disk  drive for the server shall be redundant and all the data shall be mirrored  Further  the TMN  software shall support data mirroring on redundant disk drives     RFO SDH 41E doc Page 58 of 83    The workstation shall have minimum configuration of 2 4Ghz for CISC or 1 4GHz for RISC  based processor  1GB RAM  DVD RW drive  160 GB Hard Disk 
114. up as soon as thermal  equilibrium has been reached and operated for sixteen  16  hours  Its  performance is checked during the test    Degree of Severity  Test shall be done at 0   C    Acceptance Criteria  No degradation of performance during and after the  test      b    Low Temperature Test   Operation without Damage    Low temperature tests shall be conducted as defined in IEC Publication 68 2 1  test  method Ad  with the following specifications      1      2    3     Test Duration  The equipment is started up as soon as thermal  equilibrium has been reached and operated for 72 hours  Its  performance is checked during the test and after the test as soon as the  thermal equilibrium is reached at the room temperature  Post test      Degree of Severity  Test shall be done at  10   C     Acceptance Criteria  Degradation of performance is allowable during the  test  however there shall be no degradation of performance in the post   test      c  Dry Heat Test   Operation to Specifications    Dry heat test shall be done as defined in IEC Publication 68 2 2  test method Bd  with  the following specifications      1      2    3     Test Duration  The equipment is started up as soon as thermal  equilibrium has been reached and operated for 96 hours  Its  performance is checked during the test     Degree of Severity  45   C      Acceptance Criteria  No degradation of performance during and after  the test      d  Dry Heat Test   Operation without Damage    Dry heat tests shall be
115. uter offered   a  Vitual Concatination supported   b  Spanning Tree Supported   c  VLANs supported   d  Quality of service supported    Specify types of QoS supported    e  Any other features supported    such as LCAS  rapid spanning  tree etc  specify        PROTECTION SWITCHING    List the type of Protection Schemes o  supported by the Equipment  70     Discuss the proposed protection  scheme and compare it with other  schemes described in ITU T G 841          Fill for all supported Protection Schemes       71  Switching modes available      RFO SDH 41E doc Page 68 of 83       Auto  Yes No  Manual   Remote network management     75  Inbuilt Mux  if applicable  switchover   amp  switchback criteria   Switch option mode  amp  status  indicators     Switching Time                                           Nominal   Maximum   Alarms  78 List all alarms supported by  Equipment   MECHANICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS  79  Number of Sub Racks  including ea  DC DC converters  O W muldem etc    required for Unprotected Terminal   1 1 Protected Terminal   80  Sub Rack Dimensions  L W H   cm  81  Sub Rack Weight  Kg  82  Sub Rack mounting options              83  Sub Rack clearance requirements m  Top   Bottom   Sides   Front Access   Rear Access     Cabinet options available       19  ETSI   Yes No   Slim rack   Yes No   Others  specify    Yes No   Whether Truncated Cabinet Available   Yes No       Fill for all Cabinet Types Proposed       86  Protection Class  IP Class         87 
116. ves  Minimum specific  requirements that shall be satisfied include the following     a     Provide support for an operator to initiate  collect  and terminate  performance metrics under both normal and degraded conditions  For  example  BER of each link together with other data measured at each  node  shall be available on operator request    Monitor point to point  end to end errors signal quality and history  Provide  operator controls to monitor performance of specified events  measures   and resources  Specifically provide displays to permit the operator to     1  Select deselect network equipments  events  and threshold  parameters to monitor    2  Set monitoring start time and duration or end time   3    Set monitoring sampling frequency   4      Set change threshold values on selected performance parameters  5    Generate alarm events when thresholds are exceeded     6  Set multiple thresholds on certain performance parameters  Alarm  categories include as a minimum a warning and a failure     RFO SDH 41E doc Page 33 of 83    7  Calculate selected statistical data to measure performance on  selected equipment based on both current and historical  performance data maintained in performance logs  Performance  data provided is limited to what is available from the equipment  Contractors     8  Provide graphical displays of NE current performance parameter  values  Provide tabular displays of current  peak  and average  values for performance parameters     9  Generate re
    
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