TERMS AND CONDITIONS - commerce

1 Government of India Ministry of commerce & Industry Department of commerce (GA Section) **. Udyog Bhavan, New Delhi Dated 17th September, 2014. NOTICE INVITING TENDER (NIT) FOR OUTSOURCING OF DATA ENTRY OPERATORS (DEOs) Subject: Contract for hiring the services of an agency to provide Data Entry Operators (DEOs) in the Department of commerce - inviting of quotations - regarding. Department of commerce invites quotations from the experienced and reputed Manpower Agencies for providing the services of Data Entry Operators (DEOs) for a period of one year from the date of awarding contract.

2 This Department requires initially the services of 54 (fifty-four) DEOs. The figure may vary during contract period depending upon the requirements of the Department during the year at short notice. The TERMS and CONDITIONS for the contract are at Annexure- I. 2. Accordingly, sealed bids/quotations are invited from interested agencies fulfilling the following eligibility criteria: . a) The Agencies should have at least previous three financial years Le. 2011-12, 2012-13 & 2013-14 of experience in providing such services as mentioned above, to Government Ministries/ Departments/ PSUs/ other reputed national level institutions.

3 A complete list of clients serviced during the last three years (year-wise) shall be provided along with the value of contracts executed. b) Agencies shall not have been blacklisted by any Ministry/Department of the Government of India. The tendering firms/ bidders shall have to submit notarized affidavit issued recent dates on a stamp paper of appropriate value to this effect that they have not been blacklisted or their business dealings with the Government Ministries/ Departments have not been banned. c) The interested Firms/ Bidders shall also be registered with the Government authorities such as ESt EPF, Service Tax, Labour Commissioner and Income Tax Authorities and a copy each of the registrations shall be attached with the bid.

4 D) The firm must undertake to provide clearance from police authorities in respect of the workers. This Department reserves the right to get police verification of these officials and reject those not cleared by police, if necessary. 1. e) The firm must undertake to pay Minimum Rates of wages to the workers engaged as per the applicable orders of Govt of NCT (They shall furnish a notarized affidavit to the effect that the workers going to be employed in the performance of the contract would be paid minimum wages as per applicable orders of Govt.

5 Of NCT of Delhi and all statutory requirements ESI, EPF, Factories Act, Act, Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act., would be complied with reference to those workers). t) The candidates, proposed to be engaged, should have passed at least 12th standard pass from a recognized school and should be able to read and write English and Hindi. The candidates should be active and having good health. The candidate should be well conversant with computers and essentially well trained in MS Word language and also desirably possess knowledge of LAN.

6 Functioning, MS Excel and MS Power Point packages / languages and should have a minimum typing speed of 30 words per minute in English. Company/firm/agency, which is in a position to provide shorthand knowing candidates, will be given preference. g) The firm should have a valid PAN number of the agency without which the bid shall not be entertained. h) The firm should have a registered office in NCT of Delhi. i) The bidder will have to specify the amount to be charged towards service charges for providing the DEOs.

7 It may also be noted that in order to eliminate frivolous bids and disguised charges/ deduction form salary of personal service providers bidding at zero percent service charges shall be disqualified. 3. The tendering agencies shall submit their quotations in the prescribed proforma at "Annexure - II & III" in sealed cover addressed to the undersigned, with the cover superscribed as "Hiring Services of an agency for providing Data Entry Operators (DEOs)". 4. The quotations should be accompanied with a Demand Draft of Rs.

8 50,000/- (Rupees Fifty Thousand Only) in favour of Under Secretary (Cash), Department of commerce , towards Earnest Money Deposit (EM D) and required documents in support of eligibility criteria as mentioned in para 2 above. Quotations/ bids without requisite documents regarding fulfilling the eligibility criteria mentioned in para 2, will be summarily rejected. In the event of successful bidder declining to act on the offer made by the Department, EMD shall stand forfeited and no claim on this account shall be entertained.

9 The EMD of unsuccessful tenders shall be refunded/ returned after finalization of the contract. Sealed covered bids/quotations are required to be dropped in the tender box available in Room No. 27-C, GA Section, Department of commerce , Udyog Bhawan, New Delhi on or before on The quotations shall be opened at on the same day. 5. The successful bidder will have to furnish a performance Security Deposit of Rs. 3,00,000/- (Rupees Three Lakh Only). Performance Security Deposit will 2. be returned only after the completion of the contract to the satisfaction of the Department.

10 6. The prospective tenderers are free to seek any clarification with reference to the tender and stipulations prescribed as also the scope of work. The Section Officer (GA) can be contacted in this regard with prior appointment on any working day before tender opening. 7. It may be specifically noted that the offers lower than the minimum wages for corresponding category unskilled workers on the date of tender opening shall be summarily ignored. The contract shall normally be awarded to the lowest evaluated bidder meeting all the TERMS and CONDITIONS of the tender.