REQUEST FOR EMPANELMENT

(RfE)
FOR
EMPANELMENT OF
MANUFACTURERS
FOR
PROCUREMENT
OF
POWER TRANSFORMER, DISTRIBUTION
TRANSFORMER, CONDUCTOR AND AERIAL
BUNCH CABLE

UNDER
DDUGJY & IPDS SCHEMES
RfE Code No.: 03/CC/MOP/ RFE/DDUGJY
May 2016

( )
Power Grid Corporation of India Limited
(A Government of India Enterprise)

REQUEST FOR EMPANELMENT (RfE) NOTICE

1.0 Power Grid Corporation of India Limited (A Government of India
Enterprise) incorporated under the Companies Act, 1956, having its
Registered Office at B-9, Qutab Institutional Area, Katwaria Sarai, New
Delhi 110 016 (hereinafter referred to as POWERGRID) have been
entrusted to empanel the manufacturers for procurement of various
Equipment/Items for different States/Discoms under Deen Dayal
Upadhyay Gram Jyoti Yojana (DDUGJY) and Integrated Power
Development Scheme (IPDS) on behalf of Ministry of Power, Government
of India.
1.1 Under the above said schemes, the procurement has been envisaged to
be carried out in three tranches with total quantity splitted in the ratio of
4:3:3 through a process of Request for Empanelment followed by
Request for Proposal which inter-alia includes e-Reverse Auction. The
Notice Inviting Request for Empanelment under the schemes were
earlier invited vide notification dated 12.10.2015 and thereafter Request
for Proposal under tranche-1 were also invited from the empaneled firms
vide invitation dated 28.01.2016. This invitation is intended for
empanelment of manufacturers as per the provisions of this RfE
documents for remaining tranches.
2.0 Accordingly, POWERGRID hereby solicits Request for Empanelment (RfE)
from Applicants (Manufacturers) from within India, fulfilling the
Qualifying Requirements (QR) and meeting the minimum criteria
stipulated for empanelment as brought-out in Section 4 of the RfE
Document for the following equipments:
Aggregate tentative Quantity Proposed under DDUGJY & IPDS under
Tranche-2 & Tranche-3:
S. No.

Name of
equipment/ite
m

Power
Transformer

Rating

Unit

Aggregate
Quantity
Proposed under
DDUGJY & IPDS

1 MVA

No.

1.6 MVA

No.

21

2.5 MVA

No.

3 MVA

No.

3.15 MVA

No.

323

5 MVA
6.3 MVA

No.
No.

1,842
540

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S. No.

Name of
equipment/ite
m

Rating

Unit

8 MVA

No.

Aggregate
Quantity
Proposed under
126

10 MVA

No.

897

12.5 MVA

No.

36

No.

8
3793

5/6 KVA

No.

6905

10 KVA

No.

3516

16 KVA

No.

19595

25KVA

No.

123997

63KVA

No.

40198

100KVA

No.

36491

160KVA

No.

972

200KVA

No.

7812

250KVA

No.

2945

315KVA

No.

2332

400KVA

No.

1241

500KVA

No.

454

630KVA
Total Distribution Transformer :

No.

316
246774

Squirrel (20 sqmm)

km

8,301

Weasel (30 sqmm)

km

1,03,098

Rabbit (50 sqmm)

km

3,65,581

Racoon (75 sqmm)

km

11,428

Dog (100 sqmm)

km

82,596

Wolf (150 sqmm)

km

16,256

km

2,743
5,90,003

Conductors (AAAC)
Squirrel - 30 sq mm

km

175

Conductors (AAAC)
Weasel - 34 sq mm

km

17,137

Conductors (AAAC)
Rabbit - 55 sq mm

km

86,818

km

7,911

16 MVA
Total Power Transformer :

Distribution
transformer

ACSR
conductor

Panther (200 sqmm)

Total ACSR Conductor
4

AAAC
Conductor

Conductors (AAAC)
Racoon - 80 sq mm

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S. No.

Name of
equipment/ite
m

AAAC
conductor

Rating

Unit

Aggregate
Quantity
Proposed under

Conductors (AAAC) Dog 100 sq mm

km

27,932

Conductors (AAAC) Wolf148 sq mm

km

1,544

Conductors (AAAC)
Panther 232 sqmm

km

2,574

km

1,44,091
897

km

792.2

km

123

km

13.76

km

694.5

km

96

km

1661.48

km

455

km

235.04

km

23

km

225

km

222

km

97.5

km

15

km

61.5

km

991

km

170.35

km

154

km

1842.75

km
km

8,770.08
472.14
255.34

Total AAAC Conductor

3C x 120 sqmm
3C x 120 sqmm + 120
sqmm
3C x 120 sqmm + 70
sqmm
3C x 120 sqmm + 95
sqmm
3C x 150 sqmm + 120
sqmm
3C x 150 sqmm + 150
sqmm
3C x 185 sqmm
3C x 185 sqmm+150
sqmm
3C x 200 sqmm
11 KV AB
3C x 35 sqmm + 35
Cable
sqmm
3C x 50 sqmm
3C x 50 sqmm + 35
sqmm
3C x 50 sqmm +50 sqmm
3C x 70 sqmm + 55
sqmm
3C x 70 sqmm + 70
sqmm
3C x 95 sqmm
3C x 95 sqmm + 75
sqmm
3C x 95 sqmm + 80
sqmm
3C x 95 sqmm + 95
sqmm
Total 11 kV Cable
3X120+1X120
3X120+1X70

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S. No.

Name of
equipment/ite
m

6
LT AB Cable

Rating

Unit

3X120+1X70+1X16

km

Aggregate
Quantity
Proposed under
3305.96

3X120+1X75

km

1809

3X120+1X95+1X16

km

6506.96

3X150+1X95+1X16

km

81.9

3X185+1X95+1X16

km

10

1X16 (Ph) + 1X25 (bare

messenger cum neutral)
SQ. MM.

km

15617

1x16+1x25
(bare messenger)

km

193

1X25(Ph)+1x25 (bare
messenger cum neutral)
SQ. MM.

km

12342

1x35(Ph) + 1X25 (bare

messenger cum neutral)
+ 1x16 (insulated Street
lighting) SQ. MM.

km

77

1X35(Ph)+1X25 (bare
messenger cum neutral)
SQ. MM.

km

155

3 X 16 (Ph) +1x25 (bare

messenger cum neutral)
+ 1x16 (insulated Street
lighting) SQ. MM.

km

1168

3 X 25(Ph) +1x25 (bare

messenger cum neutral)
+ 1x16 (insulated Street
lighting) SQ. MM.

km

8111

3X16(Ph)+1X25 (bare
messenger cum neutral)
SQ. MM.

km

10245

km

8213

3X35 (Ph) + 1x25 (bare

messenger cum neutral)
+ 1x16 (insulated Street
lighting) SQ. MM.

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S. No.

Name of
equipment/ite
m

Rating

Unit

Aggregate
Quantity
Proposed under

3X35(Ph)+1X25 (bare
messenger cum neutral)
SQ. MM.

km

5249

3X50 (Ph)+1x35 (bare

messenger cum neutral)
+1x16 (insulated Street
lighting) SQ. MM.

km

49063

3X50(Ph)+1X35 (bare
messenger cum neutral)
SQ. MM.

km

7045

km

791

km

101

km

1329

3X95(Ph)+1X70 (bare
messenger cum neutral)
+1x16 (insulated Street
lighting) SQ. MM.

km

9055

3X95(Ph)+1X70 (bare
messenger cum neutral)
SQ. MM.

km

1156

3X50+1X50
3x70+1x50 (bare
messenger)
3X70+1X50+1X16

Total LT AB Cable :

1,42,351.30

3.0 The RfE, alternatively referred to as Applications, to be submitted by

the Applicants shall include qualification data in compliance to the
stipulated
QR
and
other
information/details/data/documentary
evidences as sought through this RfE Document. The Applicants must
meet the QR, which is a pass/fail criteria to be considered for
empanelment. In addition to the QR, the empanelment also includes
criteria for evaluating the Applications (referred to as Marking Criteria)
on different attributes on a total score of 100 out of which an Applicant
must score minimum 60 marks to be considered for empanelment. The
Applicants who meet the stipulated Qualification Requirements and
obtain the minimum score against the Marking Criteria shall be
empaneled for different equipments. Thereafter, the Request for
Proposal (RfP) which inter-alia includes e-Reverse Auction shall be
invited from the empaneled parties to finalize one or several Rate
Contract(s) for procurement of the equipment/items, against which
various States/Discoms may place orders for procurement of the
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equipment/items as per their requirements from time to time. However,

prior to empanelment, POWERGRID reserves the right to carry out the
assessment of Applicants as per the provisions of Section-4 of the RfE
document.
3.1 POWERGRID, also, reserves the right to invite RfE from time to time and
to undertake RfP in one or more than one tranches, as per requirement
in due course of time.
4.0 Against this notice, the process of submission of Applications shall be
conducted on electronic platform with portal address https://www.tcil-indiaelectronictender.com and the Applicants shall not be permitted to submit
their Applications by any other mode. The Intergrity Pact, which shall be
applicable for empanelement, bidding as well as contract execution,
shall however, be submitted in Hard copy in Original.
5.0 The RfE Document has also been uploaded on POWERGRIDs website
www.powergridindia.com for the purpose of reference. Interested
Applicants can download the RfE Documents and commence
preparation to gain time. However, in case of any contradiction between
the RfE Documents at POWERGRIDs website and those at the portal
https://www.tcil-india-electronictender.com, the later shall prevail.
6.0 Interested Applicants have to necessarily register themselves on the
portal
https://www.tcil-india-electronictender.com
through
M/s.
Telecommunications Consultants India Limited, New Delhi to participate
in the empanelment process under this RfE notice. It shall be the sole
responsibility of the interested Applicants to get themselves registered
at the aforesaid portal for which they are required to contact M/s.
Telecommunications Consultants India Limited, New Delhi at following
address to complete the registration formalities:
M/s. Telecommunications Consultants India Limited,
6th Floor, TCIL Bhawan, Greater Kailash 1,
New Delhi 110 048
Contact Person: Mr. Rashk Siddiqui/Mr.Sujay
Contact No. : 011 26241071/72/ 2620 2699
98683 93717
Email-ID : ets_support@tcil-india.com
The said registration shall be free of cost.
7.0 For proper uploading of the Applications on the portal namely
https://www.tcil-india-electronictender.com. (hereinafter referred to as
the portal), it shall be the sole responsibility of the Applicants to
apprise themselves adequately regarding all the relevant procedures
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and provisions as detailed at the portal as well as by contacting from

M/s Telecommunications Consultants India Limited, New Delhi directly,
as and when required, for which contact details are mentioned above.
POWERGRID in no case shall be responsible for any issues related to
timely or properly uploading/submission of the Applications in
accordance with the relevant provisions of the RfE Documents.
8.0 Interested Applicants are requested to download the document and
submit their RfE as per the following schedule:
(i) Web site hosting of RfE Documents
(ii) Pre-RfE Conference
1130 Hrs

09.05.2016
:

24.05.2016 at

(iii)Deadline for uploading of Application on the portal

https://www.tcil-india-electronictender.com and submission
of Hard copy part of Documents i.e. Integrity Pact:
Date : 10.06.2016
Time: up to 11:00 hours (Indian Standard Time)
(iv)Time and date for Application Opening:
Date : 10.06.2016
Time: 11:30 hours (Indian Standard Time)
(v) Venue for Pre-RfE Conference, Address for submission of
Hard copy part of the documents and Address for Opening
of Applications:
POWER GRID CORPORATION OF INDIA LTD.
SAUDAMINI, Third Floor, Plot No.2, Sector-29,
Gurgaon, Haryana 122 001.
The Applicants may please note that there is no Application fee
for this RfE process.
9.0 All correspondence with regard to the above shall be to the following
address.
Dy. General Manager (CS-G9)/ Manager (CS-G9),
3rd Floor, Contract Services,
Power Grid Corporation of India Limited,
Saudamini, Plot No. 2, Sector-29,
Gurgaon-122001, Haryana, India.
Phone No.: +91 (124) 282 2370, 282 2363;
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Mobile No.: +9910378032, 9971399079; Fax No.: 0124-257831

For any clarification,
ipdsddugjy@gmail.com.

queries

may

be

sent

by

email

at

10.0 Notwithstanding anything stated herein above, POWERGRID reserves

the right to annul the aforesaid RfE process any time and may, at its
option with out assigning any reason, and shall bear no liability
whatsoever consequent upon such a decision.
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RfE DOCUMENT
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Section

Section 1
Section 2
Section 3
Section 4
Section 5
Section - 6
Section-7

Description

Page
No.
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Request For Empanelment (RfE)

Notice
Table of Contents
iii
Introduction
1-2
Instruction to Applicants
3-7
Qualifying
Requirements
for
8
various Equipment/Items
Evaluation Criteria
9-10
Process of Request for Proposal
11
(RfP)
Forms and Formats for submission of
Applications
Technical Specification

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SECTION 1: INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background
1.1.1 Government of India has launched two ambitious schemes, namely
Deen Dayal Upadhayay Gram Jyoti Yogna (DDUGJY) and Integrated
Power Development Scheme (IPDS) to augment and strengthen subtransmission and distribution infrastructure of the country. The primary
objective of DDUGJY is strengthening and augmentation of infrastructure
in rural areas including metering of distribution transformers, feeders
and consumers; separation of agriculture and non-agriculture feeders
facilitating judicious rostering of supply to agricultural and nonagricultural consumers in rural areas; and rural electrification. The
components of IPDS are strengthening of sub-transmission and
distribution networks in urban areas; metering of distribution
transformers, feeders and consumers in urban areas; and IT enablement
of distribution sector and strengthening of distribution network. The
combined outlay of these two schemes is over Rs.72,000/- crores. In
order to implement projects of such magnitude, large quantity of
equipment and materials for power distribution system shall be
required. Therefore, a need has been felt to streamline procurement of
key equipment and materials to ensure quality and timely supply. For
this purpose, Power Grid Corporation of India Limited (A Government of
India Enterprise) incorporated under the Companies Act, 1956, having
its Registered Office at B-9, Qutab Institutional Area, Katwaria Sarai,
New Delhi 110 016 (hereinafter referred to as POWERGRID) have
been entrusted to empanel the manufacturers for procurement of
various equipment/items for different States/Discoms under aforesaid
schemes.
1.2 Purpose of this RfE
1.2.1 POWERGRID, therefore, intends to empanel the manufacturers for
procurement of various equipment/items under DDUGJY/IPDS Schemes.
The objective of this empanelment is to obtain most competitive prices
from the empaneled parties to enable POWERGRID to finalize one or
several Rate Contract(s) with them for supply of various
equipments/items.
Against
the
Rate
Contract(s),
different
States/DISCOMs may choose to place orders for procurement based on
their requirement of equipments/items from time to time, as per their
choice.
1.2.1.1
Under the above said schemes, the procurement has been
envisaged to be carried out in three tranches with total quantity splitted
in the ratio of 4:3:3 through a process of Request for Empanelment
followed by Request for Proposal which inter-alia includes e-Reverse
Auction. The Notice Inviting Request for Empanelment under the
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schemes were earlier invited vide notification dated 12.10.2015 and

thereafter Request for Proposal under tranche-1 were also invited from
the empaneled firms vide invitation dated 28.01.2016. This invitation is
intended for empanelment of manufacturers as per the provisions of this
RfE documents for remaining tranches.
1.2.2 The Applications to this RfE shall, inter-alia, include qualification data
to the stipulated QR and evaluation of Applications against Marking
criteria related to Applicants Organizational Structure, Product
Manufacturing System, Testing Set-up, Quality System and other aspects
as contained in Section 4: Evaluation Criteria for the following
equipment/items:
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)

Power Transformer;
Distribution Transformer;
Conductor;
Aerial Bunched Cables.

Application shall be submitted as per Section 2: Instructions to

Applicants. For ascertaining compliance to the stipulated Qualification
requirements of the Applicants as well as evaluation of Applications
against Marking Criteria mentioned at above para, as per Section - 4,
the Applicants are required to furnish all the requisite information/
details/data/ documentary evidences in support of the stipulated
requirements.
1.2.3 Notwithstanding above, POWERGRID reserves the right to carry out the
assessment of the capacity and capability of the Applicants prior to
empanelment. This assessment shall inter-alia include (i) document
verification; (ii) Applicants work/manufacturing facilities visit; (iii)
Manufacturing Capacity, details of works executed, works in hand,
anticipated in future & the balance capacity available for the present
scope of work; (iv) details of plant & machinery, manufacturing and
testing facilities, manpower and financial resources; (v) details of quality
systems in place; (vi) past experience and performance; (vii) customer
feedback; (viii) bankers feedback etc.
1.2.4 The Applicants for each equipment/item Category meeting the
stipulated Qualification Requirements and scoring the minimum marks
i.e. 60 out of 100 against the Marking Criteria shall be considered for
empanelment subject to the condition that they are found suitable on
assessment, if carried out as per para 1.2.3 above.
1.2.4.1
The empanelled Parties shall be intimated the outcome of the
empanelmenet through
Details
of
Empanelement indicating
Equipment/Item(s) Description, Type & Rating of the equipment/item for
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which they have been empanelled, their Manufacturing Capacity and

Average Annual Turnover for best 3 years out of last 5 Financial Years.
Thereafter they shall be invited to submit response to Request for
Proposal (RfP) which shall be followed by e-Reverse Auction as detailed
in Section 5 of this RfE Document.
1.2.4.2
The eligibility to bid against the Request for Proposal (RfP) for
subject procurement shall be governed as per the Details of
Empanelment at per para 1.2.4.1 above and as per the terms and
conditions of the RfP documents and shall be further subject to
following:
a) Number of Provisionally allocated units in all the three tranches x
rating of equipment being supplied 3 x per annum manufacturing
capacity in MVA/km of the Bidder.
b) Number of provisionally allocated units in all the three tranches x
rate per unit (excluding differential prices) quoted by bidder
3.33 x Average Annual Turnover of the bidder.
1.2.5 The Applicants who have submitted their Applications against the
Notice Inviting RfE under the said schemes which appeared in National
and Regional Newspapers on 12/10/2015, are not required to submit
their Applications afresh. These firms shall be eligible to participate in
the RfP process as per the Details of Empanelment communicated to
them against the said RfE dated 12.10.2015 and shall be subject to
para
1.2.4.2
above.
These
firms,
if
however,
are interested in getting the capacity, rating, turnover etc. of the
Details of Empanelment reviewed, they are also required to submit
online Applications as per the provisions of this RfE documents.
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SECTION 2: INSTRUCTIONS TO APPLICANTS

1.

There is no Application fee for this RfE process. Applicants shall submit
the Application to this RfE in the prescribed Forms and Formats as
contained in Section - 6.

1.1

The RfE Documents are available at POWERGRIDs website

http://www.powergridindia.com as well as on portal https://www.tcilindia-electronictender.com. Interested Applicants can download the
RfE Documents and commence preparation to gain time. However, in
case of any contradiction between the RfE Documents at POWERGRIDs
website and those at the portal, the later shall prevail.

1.2

The Applications shall be submitted on electronic platform with portal

address https://www.tcil-india-electronictender.com, details of which are
provided in Annexure-I and the Applicants shall not be permitted to
submit the same by any other mode. In such case, even if the
Applicant has submitted the Hard copy part of the document in original
i.e. Integrity Pact within the stipulated deadline, its Application shall be
considered as Non-responsive and shall not be considered further.

1.3

The amendment/clarification, if any, to the RfE documents will be

notified
only
through
the
portal
https://www.tcil-indiaelectronictender.com.

1.4

Applicants are requested to provide complete and precise information

in the space provided along with supporting documentary evidences,
as applicable. The Applicants should attach separate sheet(s) in case
the space provided is not sufficient. POWERGRID will consider the
Applications
solely
on
the
basis
of
information/details/data/documentary evidences etc. provided by the
Applicants in the Applications only without seeking further clarifications
from the Applicants in normal circumstances. Accordingly, the
Applicants are required to furnish complete and precise information
along with supporting documentary evidences as applicable in the
Applications as the same shall be treated as final and no further
clarifications may be asked by POWERGRID from the Applicants for
qualification or evaluation purposes.
Incomplete, partially complete, not clearly filled forms giving incorrect
information are liable to be rejected without any consideration.
Where the answer is a statement of fact it must be accurate and
supported by documentary evidence wherever required. It is the
Applicants responsibility to respond with such clarity that will ensure
POWERGRID not to misinterpret any of the Applications.
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1.5

The Application to be submitted alongwith relevant supporting

documentary evidences etc. must be signed and stamped with
company seal by a person duly authorized to sign on behalf of the
Applicant. This authorization shall consist of a written power of
attorney accompanying the Application. The name and position held
by each person signing the authorization must be typed or printed
below the signature in the power of attorney document.

1.6

Separate Applications shall be submitted for each Equipment/Item

alongwith necessary documents and details, if the Applications by one
Applicant are made for more than one Equipment/Item.

2.

Deadline for submission of Applications:

Deadline for uploading of Application on the portal
https://www.tcil-india-electronictender.com and submission of
Hard copy part of Documents i.e. Integrity Pact at the address
mentioned at 5.0 below:
Date : 10.06.2016
Time: up to 11:00 hours (Indian Standard Time)
Address for Application Opening:
POWER GRID CORPORATION OF INDIA LTD.
SAUDAMINI, Third Floor, Plot No.2, Sector-29,
Gurgaon, Haryana 122 001.
Time and date for Application Opening:
Date : 10.06.2016
Time: 11:30 hours (Indian Standard Time)

3.

The RfE Document is meant for the exclusive purpose of facilitating

POWERGRID for empanelment of vendors for different equipments
under DDUGJY/IPDS Schemes and shall not be transferred to any other
party or reproduced or used otherwise for any purpose other than for
which they are specifically provided.
Further, all the costs associated with preparation of Applications,
submission of the same to POWERGRID etc. shall be borne by the
Applicants only.

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4.

5.

In addition to meeting the Qualifying Requirements, Applicants meeting

the following mandatory criteria need only to apply.
a)

The Applicant must be registered under Indian Company Act 1956

or 2013, as the case may be/ Indian Partnership Act 1932/The
Indian Factories Act 1948/Any relevant Indian Laws, whichever is
applicable.

b)

The Applicant must have Sales Tax Registration No. / Service Tax
Registration No. / Permanent Account No. (PAN)/ PF code no.,
whichever applicable.

Any clarification with respect to this RfE may be obtained from the
address given below:
Dy. General Manager (CS-G9)/ Manager (CS-G9),
3rd Floor, Contract Services,
Power Grid Corporation of India Limited,
Saudamini, Plot No. 2, Sector-29,
Gurgaon-122001, Haryana, India.
Phone No.: +91 (124) 282 2370, 282 2363;
Mobile No.: +91 9910378032, 9971399079; Fax No.: 0124-257831

6.

Others

6.1 Submission of Application does not automatically guarantee inclusion

of name in the list of empaneled Parties.
6.2 POWERGRID reserves the right to call for additional information and/or
check, verify all the information furnished in the Application.
POWERGRID also reserves the right to inspect all premises / facilities to
confirm the authenticity of information furnished / capabilities
mentioned in the Application.
6.3 POWERGRID reserves the right to reject Applications on the basis of
unsatisfactory performance of ongoing job or any similar job in the last
seven (7) years or for furnishing false information/declaration in the
Application.
6.4 POWERGRID reserves the right to reject any or all the Applications
without assigning any reasons whatsoever.
6.5 POWERGRIDs decision shall be final on all matters.
6.6 Applicants to note that Applications with conditions unacceptable to
POWERGRID shall be rejected.
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6.7 Fraud and Corruption

It is the POWERGRIDs policy that requires the Applicants to observe
the highest standard of ethics during this RfE process. In pursuance of
this policy, POWERGRID:
(a)

defines, for the purpose of this provision, the terms set

forth below as follows:

(i)

corrupt practice is the offering, giving, receiving or

soliciting, directly or indirectly, of anything of value to
influence improperly the actions of another party;

(ii)

fraudulent practice is any act or omission, including a

misrepresentation, that knowingly or recklessly misleads or
attempts to mislead, a party to obtain a financial or other
benefit or to avoid an obligation;

(iii)

collusive practice is an arrangement between two or

more parties designed to achieve an improper purpose,
including to influence improperly the actions of another
party;

(iv)

coercive practice is impairing or harming, or threatening

to impair or harm, directly or indirectly, any party or the
property of the party to influence improperly the actions of
a party;

(v)

obstructive practice is
(aa) deliberately destroying, falsifying, altering or
concealing of evidence material to the investigation
or making false statements to investigators in order
to materially impede a POWERGRIDs investigation
into allegations of a corrupt, fraudulent, coercive or
collusive practice; and/or threatening, harassing or
intimidating any party to prevent it from disclosing
its knowledge of matters relevant to the investigation
or from pursuing the investigation;
or
(bb) acts intended to materially impede the exercise of
the POWERGRIDs inspection and audit rights.

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(b)

will reject an Application if it determines that the Applicant

has, directly or through an agent, engaged in corrupt,
fraudulent, collusive, coercive or obstructive practices in
competing for the Qualification in question;

(c)

will sanction a firm or individual, including declaring

ineligible, either indefinitely or for a stated period of time,
if it at any time of this process determines that the firm
has, directly or through an agent, engaged in corrupt,
fraudulent, collusive, coercive or obstructive practices in
competing for, or in executing, in this Qualification process;
and

(d)

will have the right to require that the provision be included

in RfE Documents and in contracts, requiring Applicants,
suppliers, and contractors and their sub-contractors to
permit the POWERGRID to inspect their accounts and
records and other documents relating to Application
submission and contract performance and to have them
audited by auditors appointed by the POWERGRID.

6.8 The Applicant is also required to complete the accompanying Integrity

Pact (as per the prescribed format given in Section 6 to this RfE
Document), which shall be applicable for this empanelment process,
bidding process as well as for contract execution, duly signed on each
page by the authorised signatory(ies) signing the Application and shall
be submitted in Hard copy in Original.
The Bidder shall submit the Integrity Pact on a non judicial stamp paper
of Rs. 100/-.
The required Integrity Pact is automatically generated as Attachment 2Integrity Pact of the RfE documents. Applicants shall take print out in
two copies, shall be duly filled and shall be submitted in a separate
envelope, duly superscripted with Integrity Pact and shall be
submitted as discussed above.
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SECTION 3: QUALIFYING REQUIREMENTS FOR VARIOUS

EQUIPMENTS
1.0

For the purpose of establishing a list of qualified Parties for different

Equipment/Items, the Applicants shall meet the following Qualifying
Requirements:

1.1

Qualifying requirement for Power Transformer

Placed at Appendix QR (TR01)

1.2

Qualifying requirement for Distribution Transformer

Placed at Appendix QR (DT01)

1.3

Qualifying requirement for Conductor

Placed at Appendix QR (CD01)

1.4

Qualifying requirement for Aerial Bunch Cable

Placed at Appendix QR (CAB01)

2.0

Following factors shall be applicable for determining compliance to the

Qualifying Requirements of an Applicant:

a)

The specified requirement of at least 2 years operation shall mean

continuous operation for any duration of at least 2 years during the
specified period of seven years.

b)

In case of Transformers, an applicant shall be considered qualified upto

& including such capacity (in MVA/KVA) of transformers in each voltage
class, for which the Applicant meets the specified Technical Experience
Requirement.

c)

All transformers having 0.433kV as LV shall be treated as Distribution

Transformers and not as Power Transformers.

d)

In case of Conductor, an applicant shall be considered qualified upto &

including such strand of Conductor in each type (viz. ACSR and/or
AAAC), for which the Applicant meets the specified Technical
Experience Requirement.

e)

The total number of strands in case of ACSR Conductor shall also

include number of steel strands.
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f)

In case of AB Cable, an applicant shall be considered qualified upto &

including such size of AB Cable in each voltage class (viz. HT and/or
LT), for which the Applicant meets the specified Technical Experience
Requirement.

g)

The size of phase wire shall be taken as size of AB Cable for the
purpose of QR.

h)

Type Tests shall include the following tests, as applicable:

I. Power Transformers:
(i)
(ii)
(iii)

Dielectric Test,
Short Circuit Test, and
Temperature Rise Test.

II. Distribution Transformers:

(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)

Lightening Impulse Test,

Short Circuit Test,
Pressure Test, and
Temperature Rise Test.

III. ACSR Conductor:

(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
(v)
(vi)
(vii)
(viii)
(ix)
(x)

Surface condition test

Test for ultimate breaking load on stranded conductor
Stress-strain test
Measurement of diameter of individual aluminium & steel wires
Measurement of lay ratio
Breaking load of individual wires
Ductility test
Wrapping test
Resistance test
Galvanizing test

IV. AAAC Conductor:

(i)
(ii)
(iii)

Breaking Load test

Elongation test
Resistance test

V. LT AB cable:
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a) Tests on phase/street light conductor:

i) Tensile test
ii) Wrapping test
iii) Resistance test
b) Test on messenger conductor:
i) Breaking load
ii) Elongation test
iii) Resistance test
c) Physical tests for XLPE Insulation:
i) Tensile strength and elongation at break
ii) Ageing in air oven
iii) Hot set test
iv) Shrinkage test
v) Water absorption (Gravimetric)
d) Test for thickness insulation
f) Insulation resistance (Volume resistivity) test
g) High voltage test
VI. 11 kV AB cable:
a) Test on Phase conductor
i)
Tensile Test
ii)
Wrapping Test
iii)
Resistance Test
a) Test on Messenger conductor
i)
Breaking load
ii)
Resistance test
b) Physical Test for XLPE insulation
i)
Tensile strength and elongation at break
ii)
Ageing in air oven
iii)
Hot set test
iv)
Shrinkage test
v)
Water absorption (Gravimetric)

c) Insulation resistance(volume resistivity) test

d) High voltage test
e) Heating Cycle test
f) Partial Discharge test
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g) Bending test
h) Dielectric Power factor test
i)
As a function of voltage
ii)
As a function of temperature
i)

In case of Power Transformers and Distribution Transformers, both type

test report and Performance Certificate should be of Transformers
having same HV & LV voltage.
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SECTION 4: EVALUATION CRITERIA [EC]

1.0

POWERGRID will ascertain to its satisfaction whether Applicant is

qualified, as per the Qualification Requirement specified in Section 3 to satisfactorily perform the contract. POWERGRID shall be the
sole judge in this regard and POWERGRIDs interpretation of the
Qualification Requirement shall be final and binding.

1.1

The determination will take into account the Applicants financial,

technical capabilities including production capabilities, in particular
the Applicants contract work in hand, future commitments &
current litigation and past performance during execution of
contracts, if any. It will be based upon an examination of the
documentary evidence of the Applicants qualifications submitted
by the Applicant, as well as such other information as POWERGRID
deems necessary and appropriate. This shall, however, be subject to
assessment that may be carried out, if required, by POWERGRID as
per the provisions of Section - 3. POWERGRID shall be the sole judge
in this regard.

1.2

The determination will also take into account evaluation of

Applications against Marking Criteria related to Applicants
Organizational Structure, Product Manufacturing System, Testing
Set-up, Quality System and other aspects as detailed out in the
Attachment-5 in Section-6 of the RfE document. This evaluation
shall be carried out on a maximum score of 100 out of which an
Applicant must score 60 or more to be considered for empanelment.
For this purpose, the Applicants are required to furnish supporting
documents alongwith their Applications based on which marks shall
be assigned against each of the attributes subject to the maximum
score specified for such attributes. POWERGRID shall be the sole
judge in this regard and POWERGRIDs evaluation of the marking
shall be final and binding.

2.0

POWERGRID may waive any minor informality, nonconformity or

irregularity in any Application that does not constitute a material
deviation, affecting the capability of the Applicant to perform the
Contract.

3.0

An affirmative determination will be a prerequisite for POWERGRID

to consider the Applicant short-listed for invitation of offer against
Request for Proposal process as mentioned in Section 5. A
negative determination will result in rejection of the Applicants
Application.

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4.0

Subject to Clause 3 of the Evaluation Criteria, Section-3,

POWERGRID will empanel the Applicants for different category of
Equipment(s) in which they are interested and for which the
Applicant meets the appropriate requirements.

5.0

POWERGRID reserves the right to empanel the Applicants for

different category of equipments based on financial position of the
Applicants e.g. Turnover and other aspects as deemed appropriate.
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SECTION - 5: PROCESS OF REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL (RfP)

1.

As mentioned in Section 3, Applicants meeting the QRs as well as the

Marking Criteria for respective Equipment(s), shall be considered shortlisted for invitation of offers from them against Request for Proposal
process which inter-alia includes e-Reverse Auction for such
Equipment(s).

2.

POWERGRID will invite offers from short-listed Parties for Equipment(s)

mentioned in this RfE against Request for Proposal (RfP) process
followed by e-Reverse Auction for which RfP Documents will be issued
to short-listed Parties.

3.

The RfP Document shall contain Price Schedules for the scope of work
indicated in Section-7 as well as Commercial Terms and Conditions for
execution of the contracts for respective Equipment(s) under different
States/DISCOMs. The Bill of Quantity (BoQ) indicated in the this RfE is
tentative one.

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