Commercial Evaluation. 9.5.1. Only technically shortlisted bidders would be invited for opening of commercial bids, the date and time for opening of commercial bids would be separately advised by the Bank. 9.5.2. Bidder must take care in filling price information in the commercial bid, to ensure that, there are no typographical or arithmetic errors. All fields must be filled up correctly. 9.5.3. The bidders should not offer any options or any conditional offers to the Bank while giving the price information. The offer should strictly be in conformity with the items as specified by the Bank. Conditional and incomplete commercial bids are liable to be rejected. 9.5.4. Based on the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) quoted by the Bidders [, the Bidders would be declared L1, L2, L3 …… 9.5.5. The Bank reserves the right for negotiation with the L1 bidder(s). 9.5.6. Purchase preference would be offered to the eligible bidders as per extent guidelines and final shortlisting of bidders for award of contract would be undertaken. The final decision on shortlisting of the bidder will be taken by the Bank. Similarly, it reserves the right not to include any bidder in the final short-list. 9.6.
Commercial Evaluation. 1. In this phase, the Commercial Bids of the Bidders [Service Provider], who are technically qualified, shall be opened. The Commercial Bid should contain the total cost of all services, comprising of all line items as mentioned in the Commercial bid of RfP. 2. Bidders who do not qualify the technical evaluation will NOT be invited for opening of commercials. 3. The bidders must therefore nominate its authorized representative to be present during commercial evaluation. 4. Lowest cost bid would be arrived as follows: a) X1 = Cost of internet bandwidth with support and management charges, DDoS, Router support charges and public IPs as per Table-1 of commercial bid. b) X2 = Up-gradation charges for bandwidth and DDoS facility for various capacities as per Table-2 of commercial bid. c) Total (T) = X1 + X2 5. Based on the total cost (T) quoted by the Bidders [Service Provider], the Bidders would be declared L1, L2, L3 …… 8.4.2. Arithmetic errors correction Arithmetic errors, if any, in the price breakup format will be rectified on the following basis: 1. If there is discrepancy between the unit price and the total price, which is obtained by multiplying the unit price with quantity, the unit price shall prevail and the total price shall be corrected unless it is a lower figure. 2. If there is discrepancy in the unit price quoted in figures and words, the unit price, in figures or in words, as the case may be, which corresponds to the total bid price for the item shall be taken as correct. 3. If the vendor has not worked out the total bid price or the total bid price does not correspond to the unit price quoted either in words or figures, the unit price quoted in words shall be taken as correct. 4. If the unit price quoted by the bidder in figures and in words are equivalent but the total bid price of the item has not been worked out correctly, the unit price quoted by the bidder shall be taken as correct 5. The bidders, for whom arithmetic corrections are warranted / required, must accept the arithmetic corrections in writing / mail, within a specified date and time as may be decided by the Bank, or their bid should be rejected. 8.4.3. Short listing Bidder The bank would shortlist L1 bidder and award contract for providing: Mandatory services: i. 64Mbps Internet bandwidth with Router and block of /26 IPv4 and 256 IPv6 IPs for DC. ii. 64Mbps Internet bandwidth with Router and block of /26 IPv4 and 256 IPv6 IPs for DR iii. 1G scrubbing facility (Pooled) for DC a...