Bhagyanagar Gas Limited: Bid Document For
Bhagyanagar Gas Limited: Bid Document For
Bhagyanagar Gas Limited: Bid Document For
VOLUME-II of II
CONTENTS
VOLUMEN II OF II
SECTION – 7
GENERAL INFORMATION: -
The special conditions of contract shall be read in conjunction with general condition of contract
(GCC), Schedule of rates, scope of work and any other document forming part of contract,
wherever Context so Requires. GCC is available at tender issuing office and same shall be referred
to by Tendered. Notwithstanding, the subdivisions of the documents in to separate sections every
part of each shall be deemed to be supplementary of every other part and shall be read with and
into the Contract so for as it may be practicable to do so. Where any portion of the special
conditions of the Contract (SCC) is repugnant to or at variance with any provisions of the GCC
then provision of SCC Shall be deemed to override the provision of GCC only to the extent of
each repugnance or variations. In case of any contradictions the Decision of the Engineer-I In-
Charge will be final and binding on the Contractor.
1. Duration of contract:
The period of contract shall be two (2) years i.e. 24 months from the date of award of
contract. This contract may be extended for six months on the same rates, tender terms
and conditions, at the sole discretion of BGL, after requisite approvals. Quoted rates shall
remain valid for the tenure of the contract and for extended period (if any).
For Part-A- SMS Services: The successful bidder will be required to integrate their
solution with the applications of BGL as per below timelines of award of contract.
S.N. Activity Timeline
Integrate solution with the applications of BGL and start of SMS T + 15
1.
services days
T + 30
2. Deployment and Go-Live of Custom Dashboard
days
For Part-B- Whatsapp Chatbot Solution: The overall period of the engagement of the
Agency shall be Twenty-Four (24) Months of Implementation & Operation Phase.
Implementation Phase: During this phase, agency shall be responsible for setting up the
team and shall include Entire setup of the core platform, integrating this platform with
BGL’s billing Utility System etc., Infrastructure establishment, Resource training,
dashboard and other set up including UAT.
Operation Phase: The Operation phase shall start after the completion of
Implementation phase. During this phase the agency shall start their operation towards
delivering their services as per the scope of services for a period of 24 months.
The Bidder is expected to adhere to these timelines stipulated below. However, Bidder
can complete the below mentioned tasks before the scheduled timelines. Non-compliance
to these timelines by the Bidder would lead to Liquidated Damages as stated in this RFP:
Timelines (In
SI No. Key Activities Calendar
days)
01. Date of issuance of Letter of Intent T0
02. Implementation Phase (T1) (till Go Live) T0 + 2 Months
03. Operations Phase (T2) T1 + 22 Months
Monthly progress Reports (MPRs) to be submitted every month indicating the activities
completed / ongoing / remaining as against the scheduled tasks / activities.
Communication can be done through official email, which would suffice requirements of
serving notice.
The successful bidder has to provide uninterrupted services and operations throughout
the contract period.
2. Price basis:
Bidders to quote on the basis of FIRM prices inclusive of GST and all applicable taxes
and duties as per scope of work defined above. No additional payment shall be admissible
over and above the quoted price.
For Part-B:
SOR Sr. no. 5 & 6 will be released in phase wise manner. In 1st Phase- after Successful
delivery & UAT-70% will be released. In 2nd Phase- after Successful completion of three
months from the date of Go Live, remaining 30% will be released.
6. Rejection of tender:
BGL reserves the right to accept or reject the tender and to waive irregularities and
formalities at its own discretion. Any attempt for canvassing shall debar the tender
resulting in summarily rejection of the tender
7. Contract Performance Security:
The Contractor shall furnish to the Employer, within 30 days from the date of
notification (FOI, LOI, LOA, WO) of award, a security of 3% of annualized Order/
Contract Value excl. of taxes & duties.
Contract Performance Security which will be valid for 90 days beyond the contract expiry
date shall be refunded after the Defect Liability Period. GCC clause 2.13 of Contract
Performance Security & as per Instructions To Bidders shall be followed. Defect Liability
Period (DLP) is 3 months from the date of completion of the contract.
The Contract performance Security shall be released after completion of defect liability
period and issuance of completion certificate by EIC/Officer-In- Charge (OIC) of tender.
8. Contract Agreement:
The bidder has to execute a contract agreement within 15 working days of the award of the
work as per the format enclosed in tender Document.
9. Bidder should have PF or ESIC, PAN and GST Registration number in its name.
SECTION – 8
The approximate number of SMS required to be delivered for various purpose per year shall be
about 30 Lakhs. Out of the estimated total number of SMS’s, approximately 85% of SMS are
expected to be under the exempted category and rest 15% are expected to be under the non-
exempted category. The number of SMS and their break up (into exempted and non-exempted
category) is only an estimate and BGL guarantees, neither this business volume, nor the estimated
category wise breakup.
1. Specifications of Services:
1.a Types of SMS
1. Transactional SMS
2. SMS for OTP / Unicode OTP
3. Single / Bulk Message - English / Unicode Text Message
4. Pull SMS
5. SMS shall be only text (Hindi/English/Telugu/both)
1.b Web Portal
Successful bidder shall provide to BGL, a web interface which should have the following
minimum features:
2. Custom Dashboard - for viewing status of project by senior administration. The requirements of
same shall be collated by the successful bidder and provisioned upon approval by BGL.
4. System Features
The successful bidder shall deploy the system having following capabilities:
i) Capability to send SMS to all GSM and CDMA handsets and on all telecom
5. Technical Support
The successful bidder shall provide technical support on all working days and over the
telephone / email/ remote control mechanism. Successful bidder shall have to provide a contact
no. and a mail ID through which a technical person can get in touch in case of any problem with
regard to service of sending SMS. Also, nodal person and company representative should
actively coordinate to resolve the issues of BGL, as and when they arise.
S# Activity
1. WhatsApp Business API
2. Chatbot Solution
3. Chatbot Builder
n) The Chatbot will automatically analyze the User Request, extract relevant
activities and respond to the user. The response can be predefined text, a text
retrieved from a knowledge base that contain different answers, a
contextualized piece of information based on data the user has provided,
data stored in enterprise systems, the result of an action that the chatbot
performed by interacting with one or more backend application, a
disambiguating question that helps the chatbot to correctly understand the
user’s request.
o) Chatbot must use machine learning and Natural Language Processing
(NLP) algorithms to train itself with variety of questions asked by
consumers.
p) A bidder shall help BGL in creating a comprehensive knowledge base of
frequently asked questions on chatbot platform.
q) Chatbot needs to be integrated with services/facilities available on BGL’s
portal, Web Applications, CRM, other applications, etc.
r) Chatbot needs to be flexible to incorporate new services/facilities.
s) The Bidder shall handover all the documents along with entire source code
to BGL after completion of development period.
t) Chatbot application can also be hosted at BGL Data Centre apart from
bidder Data Centre
u) Apart from WhatsApp, bidder shall deploy chatbot solution on various
BGL projects, web portal, mobile app or other web applications as and
when directed to do so, without any additional cost to purchaser.
v) The bidder shall provide proper Knowledge Transfer regarding
development of Chatbot application to BGL IT/CRM Team.
w) Bidder shall provide necessary and sufficient training to BGL’s team
before go-live of chatbot solution, to manage application(s) and related
activities.
x) Any license cost required incurred to host or develop chatbot application to
be borne by the bidder itself.
y) The chat bot developed by the bidder should also continue to work even
after the end of contract period with or without the requirement of taking
technical support from bidder.
The bidder should also ensure the following requirements for chat bot builder solution.
a) The chat bot developed using chat bot builder should also continue to
work even after the contract period is over. Also without any compulsion
to take any kind of technical support from bidder.
b) A proper training should be given to the technical team at BGL using
Online platform, in-person or by providing reference material.
3.2 Solution Specification
The proposed solution must be hosted on public cloud provided by the bidder. The
proposed solution must support the following specification. Bidders are required to
submit compliance towards all the specifications/features in their Technical bid given
below:
i. Dashboard
View daily/weekly/monthly count of messages sent or received through
WhatsApp
Show count of messages with delivered, read, and failed status.
Show count of currently active whatsApp conversation with chatbot and
human agent.
Show system utilization in terms of CPU, RAM and network utilization.
Export data in .xls, .csv etc. format
Dashboard should have responsive design and should be able to automatically
resize, hide, shrink, or enlarge, a website, to make it look good on all devices
(desktops, tablets, and phones)
v. Knowledge Management
Ability to create a knowledge database with Articles, Documents &
Images
Ability to search knowledge database using key words
Ability to define approval workflow for artefacts creation/modification
Ability to attach KM artefacts to cases
vi. Reporting
Ability to view and download outgoing traffic report containing messages
sent with delivery status, read status and day wise traffic trend.
Ability to view and download incoming traffic report containing all
conversation messages received or sent to the consumer.
Ability to view and download report to search conversation with mobile
number and fetch the log to analyse content for troubleshooting and
measuring efficiency of chatbot solution.
All the reports related to SLA Monitoring should be available and can also
be exported in .xls file
viii. Integration
Provide API for sending WhatsApp messages using standard
communication protocols and data formats.
Ability to integrate and retrieve data from applications running in BGL.
24x7 Listening to log and capture customer conversation data
ix. Testing
Bidder shall provide test plan, test methodology, test cases, carry out testing
on separate test and development environment and submit test reports along
with analysis and corrective measures for comprehensive and sufficient testing
of functional, system and integration aspects of application(s) in initial and
subsequent stages of development and deployment.
SECTION – 9
Sr. Particulars Unit HSN/ Quantity Unit amount Unit amount GS Unit Total Unit Total amount Total amount
No SAC per Unit incl. per Unit incl. T in GST in amount incl. all taxes incl. all taxes &
Code of all taxes & of all taxes & % INR incl. all & duties & duties & GST
duties excl. duties excl. taxes & GST (INR) (in (INR) (in words)
GST, INR (in GST, INR (in duties & figures)
figures) words) GST (INR)
1 2 3 4 6.a 7 7.a=6 8=6+7.a 9=5 X 8 9.a=5 X 8
5 6 x7%
PART-A
Enterprise SMS (Inc.
Per
DLT Charges) as per
1 Messa 57,60,000
Scope of - - -
ge
Work/Services
PART-B
Charges for
WhatsApp(Business Per
2 Initiated) Message as Messa 26,88,000
- - -
per Scope of ge
Work/Services
Charges for
WhatsApp(User/Cust Per
3 omer Initiated) Messa 12,48,000
- - -
Message as per Scope ge
of Work/Services
Platform Fee for
Per
Outgoing WhatsApp
4 Messa 2,19,45,600
Messages as per Scope - - -
ge
of Work/Services
WhatsApp Solution-
One Time Set Up Cost Lumps
5 1
as per Scope of um - - -
Work/Services
WhatsApp-BOT, Web
hook Development Lumps
6 1
Charges as per Scope um - - -
of Work/Services
WhatsApp Solution-
Monthly Rental as per Per
7 24
Scope of Month - - -
Work/Services
Chat Bot- Monthly
Rental incl. Tech. Per
8 24
Support as per Scope Month - - -
of Work/Services
Grand Total amount incl. all taxes & duties & GST (INR)