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DISCLAIMER
The information contained in this Request for Proposal (RFP) is provided to the
Bidder(s) on the terms and conditions set out in this RFP document. The RFP
document contains statements derived from information that is believed to be true
and reliable at the date obtained but does not purport to provide all of the
information that may be necessary or desirable to enable an intending contracting
party to determine whether or not to enter into a contract or arrangement with Bank
in relation to the provision of services.
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All bidders must note that this being E-tender, bids received only through online on
E-tendering portal https://ubi.abcprocure.com shall be considered as an offer. Any bid
submitted in physical form will not be received or opened and shall be summarily
rejected.
2. Using the login ID, password and digital signature, login in to the tender portal to
download the tender document. It is mandatory for the Bidders to have a valid
Digital Signature Certificate – Signing and Encryption (Class – II or Class – III) issued
by any of the valid Certifying Authority approved by Govt. of India as per IT Act,
2000. DSC on Organization name is required, if bidder want to participate on
behalf of his/her Company.
3. Pay Earnest Money Deposit (i.e. EMD) through Demand Draft (i.e. DD)/Bank
Guarantee (i.e. BG), RFP cost through DD and upload the scan copies in website.
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Bidder must submit the offer before online closing date & time. The website will
automatically stop accepting the offer after online closing date and time.
NOTE: Submission of any bid document through offline mode will not be accepted except Cost
of RFP, Bid Security (EMD) and Pre-Contract Integrity Pact (on plain paper) signed by
authorized signatory and should be submitted on or before last date & time of bid submission.
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Abbreviations
The long form of some abbreviations commonly used in the document is given below:
Abbreviations Description
ALM Asset Liability Management
ATS Annual Technical Support
Bank/UBI/Union Bank Union Bank of India
BFSI Banking, Financial Services and Insurance
BG Bank Guarantee
BPD Business Process Definition
BRD Business Requirement Documents
DC Data Centre
EMD Earnest Money Deposit
FTP Fund Transfer Pricing
KYE Know Your Employee
LRM Liquidity Risk Management
NDA Non-Disclosure Agreement
NSIC National Small Industries Corporation Limited
ODS Operational Data Storage
OEM Original Equipment Manufacturer
OFSAA Oracle Financial Service Analytical Application
OSD Original Solution Developer
PBG Performance Bank Guarantee
PM Profitability Module
PO Purchase Order
PSB Public Sector Bank
PSU Public Sector Undertaking
QC Quality Check
RFP Request For Proposal
SLA Service Level Agreement
SOP Standard Operating Procedure
SRS System Requirement Study
TCO Total Cost of Ownership
TO Technical Offer
MFTP Matched Fund Transfer Pricing
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Note: Any bid received after target date and time of the receipt of bids prescribed as
mentioned above, will not be accepted by the Bank. Bids once submitted will be
treated as final and no further correspondence will be entertained on this. No bid
will be modified after submission of bids. No bidder shall be allowed to withdraw
the bid.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction ................................................................................................................................ 9
2. Integrity Pact (IP)....................................................................................................................... 9
3. Objectives of the RFP .............................................................................................................. 10
4. Invitation of Tender Bids ........................................................................................................ 10
5. Eligibility Criteria ..................................................................................................................... 11
6. Broad Scope of Work ............................................................................................................... 13
7. Infrastructure............................................................................................................................ 25
8. Support ....................................................................................................................................... 25
9. Implementation Plan and Schedule ...................................................................................... 28
10. Instructions for Bid Submission .............................................................................................. 29
11. General Terms .......................................................................................................................... 49
12. Rejection of Bid........................................................................................................................ 50
13. Modification and Withdrawals of Bid .................................................................................... 51
14. RFP Response ............................................................................................................................ 51
15. Liquidated Damage (LD) ......................................................................................................... 51
16. Warranty .................................................................................................................................... 52
17. Contract Period ........................................................................................................................ 53
18. Patent Rights............................................................................................................................. 53
19. Price Validity............................................................................................................................. 54
20. Payment Terms ......................................................................................................................... 54
21. Adherence of Cyber Security Policy...................................................................................... 55
22. Authorized Signatory ............................................................................................................... 56
23. Minimum Wages ........................................................................................................................ 56
24. Paying Authority ....................................................................................................................... 56
25. Confidentiality .......................................................................................................................... 57
26. Indemnity................................................................................................................................... 57
27. Intellectual Property Rights ................................................................................................... 59
28. Non-Transferable Offer ........................................................................................................... 60
29. Normalization of Bids .............................................................................................................. 60
30. Responsibility for Completeness ........................................................................................... 60
31. Customization Process............................................................................................................. 61
32. Escrow Arrangement ................................................................................................................ 61
33. Ownership and Retention of Documents .............................................................................. 62
34. Penalty ....................................................................................................................................... 63
35. Service Levels Agreement ...................................................................................................... 63
36. Documents and Manuals .......................................................................................................... 64
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Union Bank of India, a Public Sector Bank has its Head Office at 239, Vidhan Bhavan
Marg, Union Bank Bhavan, Nariman Point, Mumbai – 400021, having Department of
Information Technology at 1/1A, Adi Sankaracharya Marg, opp. Powai Lake, Powai,
Andheri East, Mumbai-400072.The Bank has 4300+ branches spread across the
country.
IP shall cover all phases of contract i.e. from the stage of Notice Inviting Tenders
(NIT)/Request for Proposals (RFP) till the conclusion of the contract i.e. final
payment or the duration of warrantee/guarantee. Format of IP is attached as
Annexure O for strict compliance.
The following Independent External Monitors (IEMs) have been appointed by the Bank,
who will review independently and objectively, whether and to what extent parties
have complied with their obligation under the pact.
Integrity Pact (IP) should be deposited with Mr. Vikram Gaikwad (022-25710507) or Mr.
Sanjiiev Kumar (022–25710528) of Procurement Department, DIT at the address
mentioned in place of opening of bids.
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Union Bank of India (hereinafter called as ―Bank‖ or ―the Bank‖) invites proposals
from experienced and eligible entities (hereinafter referred to as ―Respondent‖ or
―Bidder‖ or ―Vendor‖) for Upgradation, Migration, Customization and Support of
existing Oracle Financial Services Analytical Applications (OFSAA) modules -
Matched Funds Transfer Pricing (MFTP), Asset Liability Management (ALM) &
Profitability Management (PM) (Cost / Income Allocation) and Installation,
Configuration, Customization, Upgradation, Maintenance and Support of Liquidity
Risk Management module (LRM) in Oracle Financial Services Analytical
Application (OFSAA), and deploy all resources onsite. The bidder shall be OEM
(Original Equipment Manufacturer) or OSD (Original Solution Developer) or service
provider or system integrator or authorized partner of OEM or OSD.
Under this RFP the Bank wishes to upgrade and migrate the existing system of Oracle
Financial Services Analytical Applications (OFSAA version 5.6) viz. Matched Funds
Transfer Pricing (MFTP), Profitability Management (PM) & Assets Liability Management
(ALM) to the latest Oracle Financial Services Analytical Application (OFSAA version 8.x)
with enhanced functionalities. ATS for OFSAA application has regularly been paid by
the Bank. Upgrade to the latest version of OFSAA will enable the organization to
customize Asset Liability Management (ALM), Matched Fund Transfer Pricing (MFTP)
and Profitability Management-Cost Income Allocation (PM) modules to meet the
enhanced business requirements of the Bank and will also enable in implementing the
Liquidity Risk Management (LRM) module which will be procured separately by the
Bank from the Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM), Oracle.
Bidders are expected to examine all instructions, forms, terms, specifications, and
other information in the RFP document. Failure to furnish any information
required by the RFP document or to submit a bid not substantially responsive to
the RFP document in every respect will be at the Bidder‘s risk and shall result in
the rejection of its bid. The procedure and terms & conditions for submission of
bid are enumerated in this RFP.
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All offers of the bidders shall be unconditional and once accepted whether with or
without modifications by the Bank shall be binding between the Bank and such
Bidder.
5. Eligibility Criteria
Only those Bidders who fulfill the following criteria are eligible to respond to the
RFP. Document/s in support of all eligibility criteria are required to be submitted
along with the Technical Bid. Offers received from the bidders who do not fulfill any
of the following eligibility criteria are liable to be rejected.
5.1. The bidder has to submit Integrity Pact (IP) signed by authorized signatory as
prescribed format mentioned in Annexure O on plain paper in advance (not
prior to issuance of RFP) or at the time of bid submission. Bidder shall be liable
for rejection in case of non-submission of the same.
5.3. The Bidder must have minimum annual turnover of Rs. 25 crore in last
consecutive three financial years i.e. FY2016-17, FY2017-18, and FY2018-19.
Audited financial statements of last three years i.e. 2016-17, 2017-18, 2018-19
is to be submitted. In case the audited financials for the year 2018-19 is not
available, CA Certificate for the same should be submitted.
5.4. The Bidder should have positive operating Profit (as EBITDA i.e. Earnings before
Interest, Tax, Depreciation & Amortization) in the last three financial years,
(2016-17, 2017-18, and 2018-19). In case the audited financials for the year
2018-19 is not available, CA Certificate should be submitted. (Copy of the
audited balance sheet of the company showing the same should be submitted.)
5.5. The Bidder should be OEM or Original Solution Developer (OSD) or their
authorized partners or Service Provider (SP) or System Integrator (SI) of
OEM/OSD in India with an authority to do customization/up-gradation during
the period of contract with the Bank. Bidder needs to provide Manufacturer
Authorization Form (MAF) from OEM stating that bidder is authorized partner of
OEM and authorized to participate in this tender and in case the bidder is not
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5.6. The Bidder should have implemented any two of LRM, ALM, FTP or PM of OFSAA
version 6.x or above in at least one scheduled Commercial Bank/Financial
Institution in last 5 years in India.(The Bidder should submit documentary proof
by providing masked copy of purchase order and performance certificate issued
by the Bank).
5.7. Bidder should have Core Team of Minimum 4 resources having experience of
minimum 5 years in OFSAA 6.0 or above in implementation of any two modules -
OFSAA -LRM, ALM, FTP, PM to execute the current assignment of upgradation/
implementation of four modules viz ALM/PM/MFTP/LRM. Profile of proposed
team members as per Annexure L is required to be furnished.
5.8. The Bidder should not have been black listed at any time by the Central / State
Governments/ PSUs/PSBs. In case, in the past, the name of their Company was
black listed by any of the Govt. Authority or PSUs/PSBs, the name of the
company or organization must have been removed from the said list as on date
of submission of the RFP, otherwise it will not be considered. An undertaking to
this effect must be submitted in their letter head. (Undertaking on Company‘s
letter Head signed by authorized signatory as per the Annexure W to be
submitted).
Bank reserves the right to verify /evaluate the claims made by the Bidder
independently. Any decision of the Bank in this regard shall be final, conclusive
and binding upon the bidder. The Bank may accept or reject an offer without
assigning any reason what so ever.
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Union Bank has implemented Oracle Financial Services Applications namely Oracle
Financial Services, Funds Transfer Pricing (FTP), Profitability Module (PM) and Asset
Liability Management (ALM). The reporting tool used for generating reports for these
applications is OBIEE (Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition). Bank is
currently on OFSAA Solution Version 5.6 and Oracle Business Intelligence 10.1.3.4.1
version.
The purpose of this RFP is to invite bids from established entities for Installation,
Configuration, Customization, Maintenance and Support of Liquidity Risk Management
(LRM) in Oracle Financial Services Analytical Application (OFSAA), Up-gradation of
OFSAA to latest version along with support and customization of existing modules (FTP,
PM & ALM) and facility management of two onsite support resources for OFSAA.
Bidder who is interested in participating in this RFP must fulfill the eligibility criteria
mentioned under Annexure-D and also in a position to comply with the Functional and
Technical specification in Annexure F in the document and provide the required
solution/reports. Apart from the above, bidder must also agree to all our terms &
conditions mentioned under this RFP. An indicative list of reports is enclosed in
Annexure F and same should be designed / developed / delivered as per banks and RBI
requirements. This list of reports is an indicative list and not exhaustive, Bank may
define the list/formats of the reports during finalization of System Requirement Study
(SRS).
Bidder should deliver the service with the following detailed scope (not exhaustive):
c) Deployment of one onsite support resources for OFSAA version 5.6 for existing
modules i.e. ALM, FTP & PM from the date of issue of purchase order and also
extension of the same onsite support services for all modules (i.e. LRM, ALM,
FTP & PM) for five years after go live.
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6.1.1 The Bidder is required to study the existing interface and making
necessary changes to upgrade interfaces between the proposed solution
with the individual applications and systems mentioned below:-
6.1.1.1. Finacle – Core Banking Solution (Domestic & Overseas)
6.1.1.2. Treasury Application (Kastle/Finacle Treasury)
6.1.1.3. Manual Data (Excel Files)
6.1.1.4. Oracle General Ledger
6.1.1.5. Enterprise Data Ware house (EDW)
6.1.1.6. Lending Automation Solution (LAS)
6.1.1.7. Debit Card & Credit Card
6.1.1.8. Cash Management System (CMS)
6.1.1.9. Government Business Module
6.1.1.10. Internet Banking
6.1.1.11. Mobile Banking
6.1.1.12. Demat
6.1.1.13. Point-of-Sale (POS) Data
6.1.1.14. ATM
6.1.1.15. Other relevant systems
6.1.3 To perform ETL activity from source systems for both new and existing
data is the responsibility of bidder.
6.1.4 The Bidder will be responsible for identifying the detailed interface
requirements for integrating the proposed packages to the existing
systems of the Bank and for all other functionalities as mentioned in this
RFP.
6.1.6 The Bidder will present to the Bank the interface requirements for review.
6.1.7 The Bidder must ensure that all applicable interfaces are automated with
no manual intervention.
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6.1.8 The Bidder will ensure and incorporate all necessary security and control
features within the application, operating system, database, etc. so as to
maintain integrity and confidentiality of data at all times.
6.1.9 The Bidder will be responsible for developing and testing the interfaces.
When developing the interfaces, the Bidder should ensure the
requirements of data format, frequency of data transfer, quality checks
and validations before data transfer and priorities for data transfer are
identified and addressed.
6.1.10 The Bidder will be responsible for setting up the test environment for
interface testing.
6.1.11 The Bidder will help/assist the Bank in preparing the test cases for the
testing. Bidder shall ensure that the test cases meet all the testing
requirements of the Bank.
6.1.13 The Bank reserves the right to prioritize the interface building within the
overall timelines of the Project.
6.1.14 Configure and parameterize the system for bank‘s legal entities, products,
lines of businesses, processes, risk entities and any other dimension as
applicable. Any customization, if a part of the requirements, especially
when it concerns regulatory compliance, is to bidder‘s responsibility and
required to be done at no additional cost to the bank.
6.1.15 Providing training to Bank‘s designated personnel and also provide module
wise user manual as well as administrative manual. Post implementation
on-site support for 2 years from GO LIVE date and support till the end of
contract period.
6.1.16 The Bank reserves the right to prioritize the interface building within the
overall timelines of the Project.
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6.1.19 Successful bidder shall update the module as per modification of RBI/
Basel guidelines if any at any point of time without raising any change
request.
6.1.20 The bidder should implement the proposed solution at Bank‘s DC site at
Mumbai and DR site at Bengaluru.
6.1.21 The bidder should facilitate in such a manner that solution is capable of
both real time and batch integration.
6.1.22 Down-stream (End User‘s) systems are required to work without any need
for configuration. If need be, configuration manual with screen shots
should be provided by successful vendor.
6.1.23.2 The Bidder shall provide the SRS to the Bank for review and
comments, and any comments or suggestions of the Bank will be
incorporated therein.
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6.1.23.3 The Bank will identify functional heads for each process, which would
be responsible for the review, comments and sign–off of the SRS.
6.1.23.4 The SRS will be deemed completed when signed–off from the Bank.
6.1.23.5 The Bidder is also expected to carry out and document a detailed
current assessment for all business activities, and services performed
by the Bank‘s Risk /Finance Department to gain understanding of the
Bank‘s existing business and operations. The Bidder is expected to
parameterize the product and provide valuable inputs at the time of
system parameterization based on the current state assessment
undertaken by the Bidder. Also, the OFSAA core team training
conducted by the Bidder should reflect the understanding of the
Bank‘s current products and processes as a result of conducting the
current assessment.
6.1.23.7 Bank currently using Oracle Hyperion Essbase 11.1.1.3.0, Erwin Data
Modeler V7 .X, OBIEE 10.1.3.4.1 Environmental software/tools for
OFSAA application.
The bidder is not required to quote the cost of OFSAA licenses as the Bank is already
having the Annual Technical Support to enhance the product and for the Liquidity Risk
Management Bank has taken steps to procure the required licenses.
The bidder is required to quote only the cost of upgrade, implementation and
customization to the higher version as of the functional requirements specified along
with the Basel III functionalities, training requirements, additional MIS reports as per
the Bill of Material provided in this document.
6.1.24 Customization:
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6.1.24.2 The Bidder needs to provide all statutory and regulatory reports as
required by the regulatory institutions. The Bank will not pay any
additional customization costs either for gaps observed and/or gaps
observed for statutory or regulatory reports as required by the Bank.
6.1.24.4 Over and above the Bank‘ MIS requirements, report requirements and
regulatory reports, the Bidder must additionally provision for
configuration/customization/development of existing as well as new
reports as per SRS.
6.1.24.6 The Bank may require the Bidder to address additional requirements
that are not either of the following:
a) Bug fixes
i. Gaps found during base version testing
ii. Gaps against the functionalities in existing system
6.1.24.7 The Bidder will have to carry out all the customization related work at
the premises of the Bank. The Bank and the bidders are responsible for
Functional Requirements Specifications sign-off, UAT, UAT sign-off,
Installation sign-off and Implementation sign-off. The Bidder will have
to install and commission the software for customization and UAT as
per Project Plan failing which the Bidder will have to be liable to pay
the Bank the applicable penalty for delay (Liquidated damages). The
Bidder will have to provide all tools, testing instruments, drivers,
consumables, etc. required to install and customize and test the
software free of any fees or charges or any expenses. The Bidder will
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have to document and submit to the Bank all the testing activities,
procedures and results.
6.1.24.8 The Bidder is required to ensure that the software provides interfaces
to the other application systems at the Bank at no additional cost or
fees or charges or expenses. The Bidder will have to provide the Bank
weekly progress reports on the bugs/problems reported/points taken
up with schedule of date of reporting, date of resolving, and status for
all kind of bugs and problems whether reported by bank or Bidder
staff. Customizations would be both with respect to the integrated
OFSAA solution and interfaces that the Bank proposes to implement
through the selected Bidder. The Bidder will be required to carry out
data mapping, data gap identification, default values assumption
specification, and use ETL tool/OFSAA native capability to transform
and upload data extracted / available in the Operational Data Storage
(ODS) / Enterprise Wise Data warehouse data model of the bank.
6.1.24.9 Bidder needs to address the gap found in base version and bridge the
gap in the implementation of new version.
6.1.25.2 For such activity, the Bidder would have to make a system study,
identify gaps, resolve the same, test all such scenarios and then
implement the same into production.
6.1.25.3 To ensure the total integration and functionalities of the system, the
Bidder needs to integrate all the software modules. The Bidder will be
responsible for fault detection and rectification. The Bidder is
responsible to ensure that the integrated systems are fully functional.
6.1.26.1 The Bidder has to provide all functionalities as offered by OFSAA and
as mentioned in the SRS.
6.1.26.2 The Bidder will provide the Bank with the gap identification report
along with the necessary solutions to overcome the gaps and the time
frames.
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6.1.26.3 The Bidder will ensure that all gaps identified at the time of system
testing will be immediately resolved.
6.1.26.4 The Bidder will ensure that gaps pointed out by the audit and
inspection teams, statutory and regulatory bodies, or any other third
party agency engaged by the Bank will be immediately resolved.
6.1.26.5 The Bidder shall resolve gaps by proposing a suitable work around or
customizing the proposed solution by way of
modifications/enhancements, as necessary, to the proposed software
solution.
6.1.26.6 The Bidder shall provide all statutory, regulatory and ad hoc MIS
(Management Information System) reports as required by the Bank in
the desired format during the initial phase of customization process.
6.1.26.7 The Bidder shall provide for all subsequent changes to reports as
suggested by the statutory and regulatory bodies from time to time
immediately to the Bank at no additional cost to the Bank during the
contract period.
6.1.26.8 The Bidder will give adequate time to the Bank for reviewing the gap
report
6.1.26.9 The Bidder will incorporate all the suggestions made by the Bank to
the gap report.
6.1.26.10 The Bidder will ensure that they have the necessary infrastructure
and people in place to resolve all the gaps within the time lines
agreed, for the implementation and roll out.
6.1.26.11 The Bidder is expected to document all gaps observed by the Bank at
various stages of implementation including their solution and monitor
and track the status of the same throughout the implementation.
6.1.27 Testing:
6.1.27.1 The Bank proposes to conduct ―User Acceptance Testing‖ (―UAT‖) for
the Solution for the purpose of ensuring that all the functionalities
requested for by the Bank are available and are functioning
accurately.
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6.1.27.2 The Bidder will convey to the Bank that all the customizations that are
required to ―Go Live‖, as agreed upon and signed off by the Bank are
completed and the solution is ready for testing.
6.1.27.3 The Bank expects the test environment to be available to the Bank at
all times, for the purpose of testing. The Bank expects the Bidder to
install the required components to set up the required test &
development server at DC at the desired testing center of the Bank for
the purpose of testing. The Bank plans to use the testing environment
throughout the period of the contract.
6.1.27.4 The Bidder will be responsible for preparing detailed test cases
including test data.
6.1.27.5 The Bidder will assist the Bank in conducting all the tests and
analyzing/comparing the results. Bidder shall provide adequate full
time resources conversant in all business areas, for trouble-shooting
and resolving defects during the entire UAT process.
6.1.27.8 The Bidder will be responsible for providing and updating system &
user documentation as per the modifications.
This section describes the scope for Data Migration to the new integrated
OFSAA solution. The overview of the tasks pertaining to data available in
electronic format is as follows for the Bidder:
6.1.28.2 Performing data mapping exercise with the existing electronic data vs.
new OFSAA application.
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6.1.28.4 Developing a Data Extraction program (to extract data from existing
OFSAA system).
6.1.28.5 Furnish the data in a format that can be loaded into the proposed
OFSAA application.
6.4 Auditing
All actions and activities performed within the system should have a full audit
trail that not only simplifies troubleshooting and problem resolution but also
provides an audit document to pinpoint accountability. The application
architecture should also provide for easy drill down and scale up of
information. Business logic should be available and verifiable "as of" a
particular point in time to support comprehensive auditing requirements.
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6.5 Training
The Bidder will be responsible for training the Bank‘s employees in the areas
of parameterization, implementation, migration, operations, management,
error handling, system administration, etc. The training should at least cover
the following areas:
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All the trainings would be held at the appropriate sites (Bidder and Bank
premises as identified from time to time) and the Bidder has to organize the
trainer/s.
The Bidder will be expected to deliver to the Bank one (1) physical copy and
one (1) electronic copy of documentation for each of the deliverables and
online context-sensitive help module included in the software to enable the
Bank‘s personnel to use and understand the operations of the deliverables.
The Bank may make additional copies of the Bank specific documentation for
their internal use.
6.6 The bidder has to ensure the following with respect to OEM/OSD
involvement during the contract period:
6.6.2 Review of solution architecture to assess the extent to which same will
support business requirements and review gaps/ customizations, if any.
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For above scope of work, the bidder will ensure the following deliverables in the
course of implementation:
Penalties will be levied as per the Service Levels Agreement mentioned in this
RFP. Bidder to share escalation matrix with the Bank along with name,
designation and contact details
7. Infrastructure
The successful bidder must design the solution with high availability & secure
infrastructure in Data Centre and Disaster Recovery site as per Industry accepted
security standards and best practices.
8. Support
The Bidder should have support centre in Mumbai to provide post implementation
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support. The successful bidder has to ensure support to Bank in following ways for
smooth functioning:
8.1.2. During the assignment substitution of resources shall not be allowed unless
such substitution becomes unavoidable to overcome the undue delay or that
such changes are critical to meet obligation. In such circumstances successful
bidder can do so only with the concurrence of the bank by providing alternate
staff of same level of qualifications and expertise. If bank is not satisfied with
substitution, bank reserves the right to terminate the contract and recover
whatever payments made by the bank to the successful bidder during the
course of the assignment besides claiming an amount, equal to contract value
as liquidated damages.
8.1.3. Bank may take additional resource/s as per discovered price through this
tender process. As the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) is for 2 onsite resources,
cost of one onsite resource will be derived proportionately from the TCO of
successful bidder.
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8.1.6. Also the onsite resources should be competent for resolution of issues as
pertaining to existing/ new ALM rules, existing ALM PL SQL procedures and
batches, failure of any existing ALM ETL tasks. Resources should be competent
to development of new or modification of existing OBIEE reports, generation
of all daily/ Weekly/Fortnightly / Monthly ALM reports – including ETL, batch
runs for report generation etc. Also provide data pertaining to existing/new
ALM reports which would be required for Management purposes. Onsite
engineer will also coordinate/log call with Bank‘s provided infrastructure/
OEM as Database/Operating system/Hardware etc to concerned vendor in case
any issue is encountered.
8.1.7. Onsite recourse should have expertise on all the environmental software
components as Oracle Hyperion ESSBASE, Erwin data modeler, used under
OFSAA application. Resources should be competent to provide resolution for
issues pertaining to environmental software.
8.1.8. Bank reserves the right to claim change in resource based on the performance
of the resources.
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claim of any nature directly or indirectly with the bank and it would be
responsibility of selected bidder to address such issues without involving the
bank. The deputed persons have to maintain the utmost secrecy &
confidentiality of the bank‘s data including process performed at the Bank
premises. At any time, if it comes to the notice of the bank that data has
been compromised/ disclosed/ misused/ misappropriated then bank would
take suitable action as deemed fit and selected vendor would be required to
compensate the bank to the fullest extent of loss incurred by the bank. Bidder
is expected to adhere Bank‘s request for removal of any personnel, if bank
notice any negligence/gross misconduct/violation of trade secret/disclosure
of bank‘s data to third party and any decision of the bank in this regard would
be final and binding upon the selected vendor.
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notified, the Bidder should resolve the issue to the satisfaction of the Bank. Bidders
should give detailed implementation plan.
The project completion should be within 12 months from date of placing of order in
modules as under:
Sr.
Milestone Timeline
No.
SRS finalization of complete Within 1
1
project month
Migration approach (ALM/FTP/PM) and Within 1.5
2
LRM design month
OFSAA v8.x
installation(FTP/ALM/PFT/LRM), Data Within 6
3
transformation, Platform and Data Months
Migration of FTP/ALM/PM
Implementation & Customization (PM, Within 9
4
LRM, ALM, FTP) Months
5 Within 10
UAT Sign off of LRM, ALM, FTP & PM
Months
7 Within 12
Go Live of the project
Months
10.1.2. RFP document can also be downloaded from the Bank's website
www.unionbankofindia.co.in or from Government tender portal
www.eprocure.gov.in or from E-procurement site ubi.abcprocure.com.
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10.1.3. In the event of non-payment of the fee of Rs.2,500/- towards the RFP form,
the offer will be rejected.
10.1.4. All costs and expenses (whether in terms of time or material or money)
incurred by the Recipient/ Bidder in any way associated with the
development, preparation and submission of responses, including but not
limited to attendance at meetings, discussions, demonstrations, etc. and
providing any additional information required by the Bank, will be borne
entirely and exclusively by the Bidder.
10.2.1. The bidder should deposit bid security of Rs. 20,00,000/- (Rupees Twenty lac
Only) in the form of a demand draft favoring Union Bank of India, payable at
Mumbai or Bank Guarantee issued from Commercial Bank other than Union
Bank of India. Bank Guarantee should be valid for minimum 6 months and
with claim period of one month.
10.2.3. The bid security should form part of the Tender Documents (Technical Offer)
submitted by bidder. Failure to comply with this condition viz. non-
submission of Bid Security of Rs.20,00,000/- shall result in summary rejection
of the tender offer and no Bidder shall be exempted from the requirement of
the bid security. SUBMISSION OF THE bid security IN THE Indicative
Commercial offer SHALL RENDER THE BID BEING REJECTED ON THE GROUNDS
OF NON-SUBMISSION OF THE BID SECURITY.
10.2.4. In case of bidders registered with NSIC, they are eligible for waiver of EMD.
However, they need to provide valid NSIC Certificate clearly mentioning that
they are registered with NSIC under single point registration scheme. Other
terms & conditions relating to Bid security is as under:
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10.2.5.1. If a bidder withdraws its bid during the period of bid validity; or
10.2.5.2. If a Bidder makes any statement or encloses any form which turns out
to be false / incorrect at any time prior to signing of Contract.
10.2.5.3. If the successful Bidder fails to execute the Project within the
stipulated time schedule or if the order is cancelled in terms of Order
cancellation clauses as mentioned elsewhere in this document.
10.2.5.4. In case of any technical issues during reverse auction, if Bank decides to
re-conduct reverse auction and any of the shortlisted bidder does not
participate in the re-reverse auction at least by way of log in, or
10.2.5.5. In case of a successful Bidder, if the Bidder fails:
10.2.5.5.1. To execute Contract within the stipulated time: or
10.2.5.5.2. To furnish Performance Bank Guarantee as mentioned in
Performance Bank Guarantee herein.
10.2.6. The successful Bidders Bid security will be discharged upon the Bidder
signing the Contract and furnishing the performance bank guarantee as per
the format mentioned in Annexure-Q, Performance Bank Guarantee.
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from any amount outstanding to the credit of the selected bidder, including the
pending bills and/or invoking Performance Guarantee, if any, under this
contract.
If the Performance guarantee is not submitted within the stipulated time, the
Bank reserves the right to cancel the order / contract and the earnest money
deposit taken from the successful bidder, will be forfeited.
The language of the bid response and any communication with the Bank must be
in written English only. Supporting documents provided with the RFP response
can be in another language so long as it is accompanied by an attested
translation in English, in which case, for purpose of evaluation of the bids, the
English translation will govern.
Bids should remain valid for the period of at least 180 days from the last date for
submission of bid prescribed by the Bank. In case the last date of submission of
bids is extended, the Bidder shall ensure that validity of bid is reckoned from
modified date for submission. Further extension of the validity of the bid will be
decided by the bank in case of need. The price quoted in Final Commercial Offer
will be valid for at least 180 days from the date of offer.
Prior to the last date for bid‐submission, the Bank may, for any reason, whether
at its own initiative or in response to clarification(s) sought from the prospective
Bidders, modify the RFP contents/ covenants by amendment. Clarification
/amendment, if any, will be notified on Bank‘s website. No individual
communication would be made in this respect.
Union Bank reserves the sole right for carrying out amendments / modifications /
changes in the bidding process including any addendum to this entire bid. Bidders
shall not claim as a right, requiring Union Bank to do the aforesaid.
All prospective bidders to this RFP are required to check for addendums /
amendments / notices to this RFP on the website till the last date of availability,
prior to submission of bids and all such addendums / amendments / notices shall
be binding on them.
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If required, Union Bank at its sole discretion may extend the deadline for
submission of bids in order to allow prospective bidders reasonable time in which
they need to take the amendment into account in preparing their bids. Union
Bank reserves the rights to extend the deadline for the submission of bids.
However, no request from the bidder, shall be binding on Union Bank for the
same. Union Bank‘s decision in this regard shall be final, conclusive and binding
on all the bidders.
The proposal/ bid being submitted would be binding on the Bidder. As such, it is
necessary that authorized personnel of the firm or organization sign the bid
documents. The designated personnel should be authorized by a senior official of
the organization having authority or Board.
10.7.1. All pages of the bid shall be initialed by the person or persons signing the
bid.
10.7.2. Bid form shall be signed in full & official seal affixed.
10.7.3. Any inter‐lineation, erasure or overwriting shall be valid only if they are
initialed by the person or persons signing the Bid.
10.7.4. All such initials shall be supported by a rubber stamp impression of the
Bidder‘s firm.
10.7.5. The proposal must be accompanied with an undertaking letter duly signed
by the designated personnel providing a bid commitment. The letter should
also indicate the complete name and designation of the designated
personnel.
10.8.2. Commercial bid – Part II: ―Indicative Commercial Bid for Migration,
Upgrade Customization and support of Oracle Financial Services Analytical
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10.8.3. Any bid document not conforming to any one of the above terms will be
rejected.
10.8.4. Bidders, who have not paid Cost of RFP, Security Deposit (EMD amount)
and Integrity Pact signed by authorized signatory, will not be permitted
to participate in the bid.
10.8.5. In the first stage, EMD, Cost of RFP and Integrity Pact (IP) signed by
authorized signatory submitted by bidder will be reviewed and if it is as
per prescribed format then only TECHNICAL BID will be opened and
evaluated. Those bidders satisfying the eligibility criteria and the technical
requirements as determined by the Bank and accepting the terms and
conditions of this document shall be short listed for evaluation of
commercial bid. Under the second stage, the INDICATIVE COMMERCIAL BID
of only those bidders, whose technical bids are qualified, will be opened.
10.8.8. The indicative commercial bid will be used for finalizing the starting bid
for reverse auction. After completion of the reverse auction, selected
bidder should submit the price break-up as per the Annexure H.
10.9. Technical Bid
10.9.1. The Technical Bid – Part I should be complete in all respects and contain all
information asked for in this document. It should not contain any price
information.
10.9.2. The Technical Bid – Part I must be submitted online.
10.9.3. The following documents are to be submitted in original in physical form to
the Bank as well as online mode on or before last date & time of bid
submission:
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10.9.5. The Bank reserves the right to resort to re-tendering without providing any
reason whatsoever. The Bank shall not incur any liability on account of such
rejection.
10.9.6. The Bank further reserves the right to reject any or all offers based on its own
evaluation of the offers received, or on the basis of stability, capabilities, track
records, reputation among users and other similar features of a bidder.
10.9.7. The Bank reserves the right to disqualify the bidder/(s) if bidder/(s) have not
completed any project successfully in Union Bank of India in stipulated time i.e.
Installation, Implementation, migration, upgradation, support etc.
10.9.8. The Bank reserves the right to modify any terms, conditions or specifications of
RFP before date of submission of bids. Bidder has to submit bid documents as
per the changes/modifications while submitting the bid. Notification of
amendments/corrigendum will be made available on the Bank‘s website
(www.unionbankofindia.co.in), Govt. Tender Site and e-procurement site
https://ubi.abcprocure.com and will be binding on all bidders and no separate
communication will be issued. In order to allow prospective bidders reasonable
time in which to take the amendment into account in preparing their bids, the
Bank, at its discretion, may extend the deadline for a reasonable period as
decided by the Bank for the submission of bids. No post bid clarification of the
bidder shall be entertained.
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The Indicative commercial offer must not contradict the Technical offer in
any way and should include the indicative cost of all the items offered. The
suggested directive for Commercial offer is as follows:
10.11.2. The vendors 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. No additions or deletions
to the Annexure are allowed. Any deviations may lead to disqualification of
the bid.
Queries / clarifications will not be entertained over the phone. All queries and
clarifications must be sought in writing or sent to
vikram.gaikwad@unionbankofindia.com, sanjiiev@unionbankofindia.com and
jkrana@unionbankofindia.com with subject ―RFP For Migration, Upgrade,
Customization and support for Oracle Financial Services Analytical Applications
(OFSAA) - Matched Funds Transfer Pricing (MFTP), Asset Liability Management
(ALM) & Profitability Manager –Cost / Income Allocation (PM) and Installation,
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Any modification of the RFP, which may become necessary as a result of the
queries, shall be made available by the Bank exclusively through the issue of
Corrigendum on Bank‘s website www.unionbankofindia.co.in, government
tender portal www.eprocure.gov.in or at e-procurement portal
https://ubi.abcprocure.com.
10.13.1. Responses to this RFP should not be construed as an obligation on the part of
the Bank to award a purchase contract for any services or combination of
services. Failure of the Bank to select a bidder shall not result in any claim
whatsoever against the Bank. The Bank reserves the right to reject any or all
bids in part or in full, without assigning any reason whatsoever.
10.13.2. The solution will be deemed accepted only after successful sign off on results
of first production dataset from Bank‘s identified Project Manager. Responses
to this RFP should not be construed as an obligation on the part of the Bank
to award a purchase contract for any services or combination of services.
Failure of the Bank to select bidder shall not result in any claim whatsoever
against the Bank. The Bank reserves the right to reject any or all bids in part
or in full, without assigning any reason whatsoever.
10.13.4. The terms and conditions as specified in the RFP and addendums (if any)
thereafter are final and binding on the bidders. In the event the bidder is not
willing to accept the terms and conditions of the Bank, the bidder may be
disqualified. Any additional or different terms and conditions proposed by
the bidder would be rejected unless expressly assented to in writing by the
Bank and accepted by the Bank in writing.
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10.13.5. The successful bidder must strictly adhere to the delivery dates or lead times
identified in their proposal. Failure to meet these delivery dates, unless it is
due to reasons entirely attributable to the Bank, may constitute a material
breach of the successful bidder‘s performance. In the event that the Bank is
forced to cancel an awarded contract (relative to this tender document) due
to the successful bidder‘s inability to meet the established delivery dates or
any other reasons attributing to the successful bidder then, that bidder will
be responsible for any re-procurement costs suffered by the Bank. The
liability in such an event could be limited to the differential excess amount
spent by the Bank for procuring similar deliverables and services
10.13.6. The bidder shall represent and acknowledge to the Bank that it possesses
necessary experience, expertise and ability to undertake and fulfill its
obligations, involved in the performance of the provisions of this RFP. The
bidder represents that the solution to be supplied in response to this RFP
shall meet the proposed bidders requirement. If any services, functions or
responsibilities not specifically described in this RFP are an inherent,
necessary or customary part of the deliverables or services and are required
for proper performance or provision of the deliverables or services in
accordance with this RFP, they shall be deemed to be included within the
scope of the deliverables or services, as if such services, functions or
responsibilities were specifically required and described in this RFP and shall
be provided by the bidder at no additional cost to the Bank. The bidder also
acknowledges that the Bank relies on this statement of fact, therefore
neither accepting responsibility for, nor relieving the bidder of responsibility
for the performance of all provisions and terms and conditions of this RFP,
the Bank expects the bidder to fulfill all the terms and conditions of this
RFP. The modifications, which are accepted by the Bank, shall form a part of
the final contract.
10.13.7. The Bidder shall represent that the solution provided and/or use of the same
by the Bank shall not violate or infringe the rights of any third party or the
laws or Regulations under any governmental or judicial authority. The Bidder
further represents that the documentation to be provided to the Bank shall
contain a complete and accurate description of the solution and services (as
applicable), and shall be prepared and maintained in accordance with the
highest industry standards. The Bidder represents and agrees to obtain and
maintain validity throughout the specified term, of all appropriate
registrations permissions and approvals, which are statutorily required to be
obtained by the bidder for performance of the obligations of the bidder. The
bidder further agrees to inform and assist the Bank for procuring any
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10.13.8. All terms and conditions, payments schedules, time frame for expected
service levels as per this tender will remain unchanged unless explicitly
communicated by the Bank in writing to the bidder. The Bank shall not be
responsible for any judgments made by the bidder with respect to any aspect
of the Service. The bidder shall at no point be entitled to excuse themselves
from any claims by the Bank whatsoever for their deviations in confirming to
the terms and conditions, payments schedules, expected service levels etc.
as mentioned in this tender document.
10.13.9. The Bank and the bidder covenants and represents to the other Party the
following
10.13.9.5. Will not violate or contravene any law, statute, rule, regulation,
licensing requirement, order, writ, injunction or decree of any court,
governmental instrumentality or other regulatory, governmental or
public body, agency or authority by which it is bound or by which any
of its properties or assets are bound;
10.13.9.6. Except to the extent that the same have been duly and properly
completed or obtained, will not require any filing with, or permit,
consent or approval of or license from, or the giving of any notice to,
any court, governmental instrumentality or other regulatory,
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10.13.11. The bidder shall undertake to provide appropriate human as well as other
resources required, to execute the various tasks assigned as part of the
project, from time to time.
10.13.13. The Bank will not bear any costs incurred by the bidder for any discussion,
presentation, demonstrations etc. on proposals or proposed contract or for
any work performed in connection therewith.
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10.14.2. Bidders shall have the opportunity to clarify doubts pertaining to the
tender document in order to clarify any issues they may have, prior to
finalizing their responses. All responses to be submitted as per query bid
format. Responses to inquiries and any other corrections and amendments
will be published on Bank‘s website in the form of addendum to tender
document or through electronic mail; the preference for distribution
would be with the Bank. The bidder, who posed the question, will remain
anonymous.
10.14.3. Preliminary Scrutiny – The Bank will scrutinize the offers to determine
whether they are complete, whether any errors have been made in the
offer, whether required technical documentation has been furnished,
whether the documents have been properly signed, and whether items are
quoted as per the schedule. The Bank may, at its discretion, waive any
minor non-conformity or any minor deficiency in an offer. This shall be
binding on all bidders and the Bank reserves the right for such waivers and
the Bank‘s decision in the matter will be final.
10.14.5. No Commitment to Accept Lowest bid or Any Tender – The Bank shall be
under no obligation to accept the lowest price bid or any other offer
received in response to this Tender notice and shall be entitled to reject
any or all offers including those received late or incomplete offers without
assigning any reason whatsoever. The Bank reserves the right to make any
changes in the terms and conditions of purchase. The Bank will not be
obliged to meet and have discussions with any Bidder, and / or to listen to
any representations unless there is change in the terms and conditions of
purchase. The Bank further reserves the right to reject any or all offers
based on its own evaluation of the offers received, or on the basis of
stability, capabilities, track records, reputation among users and other
similar credentials of a bidder. When the Bank makes any such rejection,
the Bank will not be bound to give any reason and/or justification in this
regard to bidder.
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10.14.7. Price Discussion – It is absolutely essential for the Bidders to quote the
lowest price at the time of making the offer in their own interest. The
Bank reserves the right to do price discovery and engage the successful
bidder in discussions on the prices quoted.
10.14.8. Right to Alter – the Bank reserves the right to alter the requirements
specified in the Tender. The Bank will inform all Bidders about changes, if
any. The Bidder agrees that the Bank has no limit on the additions or
deletions on the items for the period of the contract. Further the Bidder
agrees that the prices quoted by the Bidder would be proportionately
adjusted with such additions or deletions in quantities.
10.14.9. If the Bank is not satisfied with the technical specifications as specified in
the tender document and observes major deviations, the technical bids of
such bidders will not be short-listed for further evaluation. No further
discussions shall be entertained with such bidders in respect of the subject
technical bid.
10.14.10. Bidder shall indemnify, protect and save the Bank against all claims,
losses, costs, damages, expenses, action, suits and other proceedings,
resulting from infringement of any patent, trademarks, copyrights etc or
such other statutory infringements under any laws including the Copyright
Act, 1987 in respect of solution implemented by them in the Bank from
whatsoever source, provided the Bank notifies the Bidder in writing as
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soon as possible when the Bank becomes aware of the claim. However, (i)
the Bidder has sole control of the defense and all related settlement
negotiations (ii) the Bank provides the Bidder with the assistance,
information and authority reasonably necessary to perform the above and
(iii) the Bank does not make any statements or comments or
representations about the claim without the prior written consent of the
Bidder, except where the Bank is required by any authority/regulator to
make a comment/statement/representation.
10.14.12. The Bidder shall perform its obligations under this Tender as an
independent contractor, and may engage subcontractors to perform any of
the Deliverables or Services with prior permission from the Bank. Neither
this Tender nor the Bidder‘s performance of obligations under this Tender
shall create an association, partnership, joint venture, or relationship of
principal and agent, master and servant, or employer and employee,
between the Bank and the Bidder or its employees, subcontractor; and
neither Party shall have the right, power or authority (whether expressed
or implied) to enter into or assume any duty or obligation on behalf of the
other Party.
10.14.13. The Bidder shall solely be responsible for all payments (including any
statutory payments) to its employees and / or sub contractors and shall
ensure that at no time shall its employees, personnel or agents hold
themselves out as employees or agents of the Bank, nor seek to be treated
as employees of the Bank for any purpose, including claims of entitlement
to fringe benefits provided by the Bank, or for any kind of income or
benefits. The Bidder alone shall file all applicable tax returns for all of its
personnel assigned hereunder in a manner consistent with its status as an
independent contractor of services; and the Bidder will make all required
payments and deposits of taxes in a timely manner.
10.14.14. The price payable to the Bidder shall be inclusive of carrying out any
modifications changes / upgrades to the application and other software
that is required to be made in order to comply with any statutory or
regulatory requirements or any industry-wide changes arising during the
subsistence of the contract/ agreement, and the Bank shall not pay any
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additional cost for the same. The Bidder needs to provide with the details
about all such items considered in the RFP.
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10.16.1. For finalization of the most competitive offer, the Bank will conduct
‗Reverse auction‘. The detailed procedure and Business rules for the
Reverse auction is given as per Annexure S and are also available on Bank‘s
web site.
10.16.2. The Indicative commercial proposals of only those Bidders who are qualified
in the technical evaluation would be opened and the lowest indicative
prices may be taken as the starting bid for conducting Reverse auction
under E-procurement process. The detail of Reverse auction under
E-procurement process is given as per Annexure S. The L-1 bidder emerging
from Reverse auction process will submit a detailed breakup of total cost as
per the indicative commercial offer (Annexure H).
10.16.3. The technically qualified bidders will participate in the Reverse auction
process that will be conducted by an Auction company authorized by the
Bank. Specific rules for this particular event viz. date and time, start price,
bid decrement value, duration of event etc. shall be informed by the
Auction Company to the participating bidders before the event. The bidders
should furnish indicative prices for the project in their Indicative
Commercial Bid to facilitate finalizing the start bid for Reverse auction
under E-Procurement process.
10.16.4. The Indicative commercial offer must not contradict the Technical offer in
any way and should include the indicative cost of all the items offered as
per Annexure H. This must contain all price information.
10.16.5. The lowest Indicative commercial offers (total cost) may be taken as the
starting bid or Bank may decide starting bid of Reverse Auction based on
past experience. Bidders should note that the indicative commercial bid is
considered for the purpose of conducting Reverse auction process only. The
L-1 bidder will be decided only later, on finalization of prices through
Reverse auction.
10.16.6. The L-1 bidder emerging at the end of the Reverse Auction process shall be
required to submit the break-up of his Final price (last bid price) again in
Annexure H. Failure or refusal to offer the services/goods at the price
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10.16.7. The final decision on the bidder will be taken by Union Bank of India. Union
Bank reserves the right to reject any or all proposals. Similarly, it reserves
the right not to include any bidder in the final short-list.
10.16.8. The Bank shall follow all the guidelines/notifications for public
procurement.
10.17.1. During the process of reverse auctions, if there is either no bids from logged
in bidders or only one bidder puts up bid/s, Bank may decide a re-reverse
auction by taking fresh Indicative prices from all qualified bidders in sealed
cover only, to amend the start price for Re-reverse auction.
10.17.2. In case the start price for the Reverse Auction event is decided by Bank and
there are no bids or only one bid/s by a single bidder in the Reverse
Auction, Bank may decide Re-reverse Auction while further amending the
start price.
10.17.3. Reverse auction will be valid only if two or more bidders are participating in
the reverse auction event.
10.17.4. In all the above circumstances, the functional head of the department may
take a decision on re-reverse auction.
However, the Bank shall be under no obligation to accept the lowest price bid
or any other offer received in response to this Tender notice and shall be
entitled to reject any or all offers including those received late or incomplete
offers without assigning any reason whatsoever. The Bank reserves the right
to make any changes in the terms and conditions of purchase. The Bank will
not be obliged to meet and have discussions with any Bidder, and / or to
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10.19.1 The commercial bid should be quoted in the commercial bid form
attached to this bid.
10.19.2 The prices should be firm and not dependent on any variable factors and
expressed in Indian Rupees only.
10.19.3 The Total cost should be exclusive of all applicable taxes and duties, GST
(CGST/SGST/IGST) which will be paid at actual at the time of invoicing.
10.19.4 If the cost for any line item is indicated as zero/nil/blank then it will be
assumed by the Bank that the said item is provided to the Bank without
any cost.
10.19.5 Bank will not pay any Labour charges for transportation, Road Permit, any
other items separately. All such costs, if any, should be absorbed in the
above TCO.
10.19.6 The Total cost should be exclusive of all applicable taxes and duties, GST
(SGST, CGST & IGST). GST will be payable in actual on the date of
invoicing.
10.19.7 Any upward / downward change in applicable GST will be to the account
of Bank.
10.19.8 The Bidder shall be liable to pay all applicable corporate taxes and income
tax that shall be levied according to the laws and regulations applicable
from time to time in India.
10.19.9 Wherever the laws and regulations require deduction of such taxes at the
source of payment, Purchaser shall effect such deductions from the
payment due to the Bidder. The remittance of amounts so deducted and
issuance of certificate for such deductions shall be made by Purchaser as
per the laws and regulations in force. Nothing in the Contract shall relieve
the Bidder from his responsibility to pay any tax that may be levied in
India on income and profits made by the Bidder in respect of this
Contract.
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10.19.10.3 If the bidder does not accept the error-correction, its bid will
be rejected, and its bid security i.e. Earnest Money Deposit
(EMD) will be forfeited.
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11.6 Canvassing of any kind will not only invite disqualification but also will debar the
Bidder from future participation in the tendering process.
11.7 Bidder is required to comply with the standard data security system and abide
Information Security policy of the Bank.
11.8 During the evaluation process at any stage if it is found that the bidder does not
meet the eligibility criteria or has submitted false/incorrect information the bid
will be rejected summarily by the bank.
11.9 Bidder is required to comply with all terms and conditions as mentioned in this
RFP document.
11.10 The RFP and all supporting documents are the sole property of the Bank and
violation of this will be a breach of trust and Bank would be free to initiate any
action deemed appropriate. The proposal and all supporting documentation
submitted by bidders shall become the property of the Bank.
11.11 Clause for Limitation of liability: Vendor's aggregate liability under the contract
shall be limited to a maximum of the Contract value. This limit shall not apply to
third party claims for 1) IP infringement indemnity; 2) bodily injury (including
death) and damage to real property and tangible personal property caused by
vendor's gross negligence. Vendor shall not in any event be liable for any
indirect, consequential damage, or loss of profit, business, revenue, goodwill,
anticipated saving or data, or third party claim except with respect to bodily
injury (including death) and damage to real and tangible personal property for
which vendor is legally liable. For the purpose of this section, Contract value at
any given point of time, means the aggregate value of the purchase orders placed
by Bank on the vendor that gave rise to claim, under this tender.
12.1 The document does not bear signature of authorized person in each page
and duly stamp.
12.2 It is received through Fax/E-mail.
12.3 It is received after expiry of the due date and time stipulated for Bid
submission.
12.4 Incomplete Bids, including non-submission or non-furnishing of requisite
documents / Conditional Bids / Bids not conforming to the terms and
conditions stipulated in this Request for proposal (RFP) are liable for
rejection by the Bank.
12.5 It is evasive or contains incorrect information.
12.6 Any form of canvassing / lobbying /influence/ query regarding short
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The bidder may modify its bid’s submission anytime by logging in to the website
https://ubi.abcprocure.com and uploading the documents again till the last date
and time of bid submission.
No bid can be modified or withdrawn by the bidder subsequent to the closing date
and time for submission of bids.
All submissions will become the property of Bank. Recipients shall be deemed to
license, and grant all rights to, Bank to reproduce the whole or any portion of
their submission for the purpose of evaluation, to disclose the contents of the
submission to other Recipients who have registered a submission and to disclose
and/or use the contents of the submission as the basis for any resulting RFP
process, notwithstanding any copyright or other intellectual property right that
may subsist in the submission or Banking documents.
If Successful bidder fails to deliver any or all of the Service(s) / Systems or perform
the Services within the time period(s) specified in the RFP/Contract / Agreement,
BANK shall, without prejudice to its other rights and remedies under and in
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accordance with the RFP/Contract / Agreement, levy Liquidated Damages (LD) from
payments due to the Successful bidder. For calculation of LD:
15.2 The overall LD during implementation will be to a maximum of 10% of the total
cost of the project.
15.3 LD for delay in completion of the Service(s) for each week of delay beyond the
scheduled completion date or part thereof will be a sum equivalent to 0.5% of
TCO. In case of undue delay beyond a period of 15 days after attaining the
maximum penalty of 10% of total project cost during implementation, Bank may
consider termination of the contract or purchase order. Part of week will be
considered as full week.
15.4 Bank can deduct the amount of liquidated damages from any money belonging
to the Successful bidder in its hands (which includes BANK‘s right to claim such
amount against Successful bidder‘s Performance Bank Guarantee) or which may
become due to the Successful bidder.
15.5 Any such recovery or liquidated damages shall not in any way relieve the
Successful bidder from any of its obligations to complete the works / service(s)
or from any other obligations and liabilities under the Contract/Agreement/
Purchase Order.
15.6 Bank reserves the right to condone the delay, if it is not attributable to the
Successful bidder.
16. Warranty
16.2 Any corruption in the software or media or any services shall be rectified
during the full period of the contract, if contracted, at no extra cost to the
Bank.
16.3 The executions of the service(s) herein is and shall be strictly in accordance
and in compliance with all Applicable Laws, as amended from time to time ,
the regulatory framework governing the same and the Good Industry Practice.
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It has all permissions, consents, approvals and license from all authorities,
regulatory /statutory and non-regulatory, for executing the Service(s).
16.4 The successful bidder warrants that Deliverables and the Services provided by
the successful bidder shall be as per the terms of this Agreement. The
successful bidder should guarantee that the software supplied to the Bank is
licensed and legally obtained. Software must be supplied with their original
and complete printed documentation.
16.5 The successful bidder shall be fully responsible for warranty of all the solution
components i.e. software in respect of proper design, quality, etc. covered by
the offer.
The contract period for proposed solution will be for a period of 6 years (1 year of
implementation period and 5 years after go-live) from the date of acceptance of
Purchase order by the selected bidder. However, if the Bank desires, the selected
bidder has to provide same support for Application software for the next three years
after expiry of the contract period at mutually agreed terms and will be renewed on
a yearly basis.
The successful bidder shall execute (a) a Service Level Agreement (SLA), which would
include all the services and terms and conditions of the services to be extended as
detailed herein and any other conditions as may be prescribed by the Bank; and (b)
Non-disclosure Agreement (NDA). The bidder shall execute the SLA and NDA within
one month from the date of acceptance of Letter of Appointment. The contract shall
be executed by the authorized signatory of the bidder. A power of attorney to that
effect shall be submitted by the successful bidders.
SLA will cover performance and availability of the solution deployed. The Bidder
shall bear entirely and exclusively all costs (whether in term of time or money)
associated with the preparation and submission of its Bid and the Bank will in no case
be held responsible or liable for these costs regardless of the conduct or outcome of
the bid process including but not limited to cancellation/abandonment/annulment of
the bidding process.
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Supplier shall act expeditiously to extinguish such claim. If the Supplier fails to
comply and the Bank is required to pay compensation to a third party resulting
from such infringement, the Supplier shall be responsible for the compensation
including all expenses, court costs and lawyer fees. The Bank will give notice to
the Supplier of such claim, if it is made, without any delay.
Prices payable to the successful bidder as stated in the Contract shall be firm and
not subject to any changes at any circumstances during the contract period.
Project Cost
S. (Excluding cost
Item description
No. Onsite resource)
in %
Migration Approach(ALM/FTP/PM)
2 5%
LRM design
OFSAA 8.x Installation for 5%
PFT/FTP/ALM/LRM
3 Platform and Data Migration for ALM,FTP 10%
and PM
Data Transformation for ALM, FTP and PM 5%
Implementation, Customization & UAT Sign
4 off of LRM, ALM & FTP,PM 40%
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Bidders are liable for not meeting the security standards or desired security aspects
of all the ICT resources as per Bank's IT/Information Security / Cyber Security Policy.
The IT /Information Security/ Cyber Security Policy will be shared with successful
bidder. Bidders should ensure Data Security and protection of facilities/application
managed by them.
The deputed persons should aware about Bank‘s IT/IS/Cyber security policy and have
to maintain the utmost secrecy & confidentiality of the bank‘s data including process
performed at the Bank premises. At any time, if it comes to the notice of the bank
that data has been compromised/disclosed/misused/misappropriated then bank
would take suitable action as deemed fit and selected vendor would be required to
compensate the bank to the fullest extent of loss incurred by the bank.
Bidder has to agree and provide undertaking not to disclose any Bank information and
will maintain confidentiality of Bank information as per policy of the Bank and will
sign ―Non-Disclosure Agreement‖ document provided by Bank.
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All information resources (online/in-person) of the vendors and its partners shall be
made accessible to reserve Bank of India as and when sought.
The Bank shall evaluate, assess, approve, review, control and monitor the risks and
materiality of vendor/outsourcing activities and bidder shall ensure to support
baseline system security configuration standards. The Bank shall also conduct
effective due diligence, oversight and management of third party vendors/service
providers & partners.
Vendor criticality assessment shall be conducted for all partners & vendors.
Appropriate management and assurance on security risks in outsources and partner
arrangements shall be ensured.
The selected bidder shall indicate the authorized signatories who can discuss and
correspond with the BANK, with regard to the obligations under the contract.
The selected bidder shall submit at the time of signing the contract a certified
copy of the resolution of their board, authenticated by the company secretary,
authorizing an official or officials of the bidder to discuss, sign
agreements/contracts with the BANK, raise invoice and accept payments and also
to correspond. The bidder shall provide proof of signature identification for the
above purposes as required by the BANK.
The bidder hereby agrees and undertakes that during the subsistence of this
agreement it will not employ any personnel/individual below the Minimum Wages
fixed by appropriate Government on this behalf from time to time, as per the
provisions of Minimum Wages Act 1948.
The payments as per the Payment Schedule covered hereinabove shall be paid by
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25. Confidentiality
The bidder must undertake that they shall hold in trust any Information received
by them, under the Contract/Agreement, and the strictest of confidence shall
be maintained in respect of such Information. The bidder has also to agree:
25.1. To maintain and use the Information only for the purposes of the
Contract/Agreement and only as permitted by the BANK;
25.2. To only make copies as specifically authorized by the prior written
consent of the Bank and with the same confidential or proprietary
notices as may be printed or displayed on the original;
25.3. To restrict access and disclosure of Information to such of their
employees, agents, strictly on a "need to know" basis, to maintain
confidentiality of the Information disclosed to them in accordance with
this Clause and
25.4. To treat all Information as Confidential Information.
25.5. The Selected Bidder shall be required to sign a Non Disclosure
Agreement with Bank as per prescribed format provided in Annexure U
within thirty days of issuing the order/letter of intent.
26. Indemnity
26.1 Bidder shall indemnify, protect and save the Bank and hold the Bank
harmless from and against all claims, losses, costs, damages, expenses,
action suits and other proceedings, (including reasonable attorney fees),
relating to or resulting directly or indirectly from:
financial loss, loss of life, etc., due to the acts of the Bidder's employees
or representatives. The Bidder shall further indemnify the Bank against
any loss or damage arising out of loss of data, claims of infringement of
third- party copyright, patents, or other intellectual property, and third-
party claims on the Bank for malfunctioning of the equipment or software
or deliverables at all points of time, provided however,
26.1.4.1 The Bank notifies the bidder in writing in a reasonable time frame on
being aware of such claim,
26.1.4.2 The Bidder has sole control of defense and all related settlement
negotiations,
26.1.4.3 The Bank provides the Bidder with the assistance, information and
authority as it deems fit to perform the above.
26.1.4.4 The Bank does not make any statement or comments or representations
about the claim without prior written consent of the Bidder, except
under due process of law or order of the court.
26.2. It is clarified that the bidder shall in no event enter into a settlement,
compromise or makes any statement (including failure to take appropriate
steps) that may be detrimental to the Bank's (and/or its customers, users
and service providers) rights, interest and reputation.
26.3. Bidder shall be responsible for any loss of data, loss of life, etc, due to acts
of Bidder's representatives, and not just arising out of gross negligence or
misconduct, etc, as such liabilities pose significant risk.
26.4. Bidder should take full responsibility for its and its employee's actions.
Further, since the Bank's data could be integrated/used under Bidder
provided software, the Bidder should be responsible for loss/compromise or
damage to Bank's data and for causing reputation risk to bank.
26.5. The bidders should indemnify the Bank (including its employees, directors or
representatives) from and against claims, losses, liabilities, penalties, fines
and suits arising from:
26.5.1. IP infringement under any laws including Copyrights Act 1957 & IT Act
2000 and such other statutory acts and amendments thereto.
26.5.2. Negligence and misconduct of the Bidder, its employees, and agents.
26.5.3. Breach of any terms of RFP, Representation or Warranty.
26.5.4. Act or omission in performance of service.
26.5.5. Loss of data due to any of the reasons mentioned above.
26.5.6. Non compliance of any statutory regulations in respect of the services.
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26.7. In the event that the Bank is called as a defendant for IPR infringement of
patent, trademark or industrial design rights arising from use of any of the
components of the supplied solution, the Bidder on its own expense will
undertake to defend the Bank.
26.8. It will be the Bidder's responsibility to rapidly do away with such third-party
claims. The Bidder will also pay any compensation arising from the
infringement claims and the Bank will in no manner be responsible for such
payments. In addition, the Bidder will bear all the related expenses and
legal fees.
26.9. On its part, the Bank will immediately relay to the Bidder any such claims
and offer assistance within reasonable limits to rid the claim.
26.10. The Bidder must undertake to indemnify that all the components delivered
are free of defects, are brand new and original. If at some stage it is
discovered that the components do not meet these criteria, the Bank has the
right to cancel the order and the Bidder will have to refund the total amount
received from the Bank along with the interest and separate penalties.
Similar conditions apply to software; as well the system software must be
licensed and original.
The Bidder claims and represents that it has obtained appropriate rights to provide
the Deliverables and Services upon the terms and conditions contained in this RFP.
27.1 The Bidder shall be responsible at its own cost for obtaining all necessary
authorizations and consents from third party licensors of Software used by
Bidder in performing its obligations under this Project.
27.2 If a third party's claim endangers or disrupts the Bank‘s use of the Deliverables,
the Bidder shall at no further expense, charge, fee or cost to the Bank, (i)
obtain a license so that the Bank may continue use of the Deliverables in
accordance with the terms of this RFP.
27.3 Bidder shall indemnify and keep fully and effectively indemnified the Bank
from all legal actions, claims, or damages from third parties arising out of use
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This Request for Proposal (RFP) is not transferable. Only the bidder who has
submitted t h e bid will be eligible for participation in the evaluation process.
The Bank can repeat this normalization process at every stage of bid submission
till Bank is satisfied. The shortlisted bidders agree that, they have no reservation
or objection to the normalization process and all the technically shortlisted
bidders will, by responding to this RFP, agree to participate in the normalization
process and extend their co-operation to the Bank during this process. The
shortlisted bidders, by submitting the response to this RFP, agree to the process
and condition of the normalization process.
Any supplies and services, which might not have been specifically mentioned in this
tender but, are necessary for the installation, Configuration, testing,
commissioning, performance or completeness of the order, shall be provided /
made available as per the time schedule for smooth and efficient operation and
maintenance of the system under Indian conditions.
The bidder shall be responsible for any discrepancies, errors and omissions in the
technical details submitted by him/them, irrespective of whether these have been
approved , reviewed or otherwise , accepted by the Bank or not. The Bidder shall
take all corrective measures arising out of discrepancies, errors and omissions in
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drawing and other information as mentioned above within the time schedule and
without extra cost to the Bank.
The Successful bidder shall ensure that the software supplied meets all the
functional requirements as given in the RFP. The successful bidders shall submit
individual time frames, within overall time frame stipulated as per this RFP,
required to change / modify / customize each part of the functional requirements
which needs such change / modification /customization.
The Successful bidder shall provide all tools, testing instruments, drivers,
consumables, etc. required to install and customize and test the software free of
any fees or charges or any expenses. The Successful bidder shall document and
submit to the Bank all the testing activities, procedures and results. The Successful
bidder shall provide the Bank weekly progress report on the bugs/problems
reported/ points taken up with schedule of date of reporting, date of resolving,
and status for all kind of bugs and problems as and when reported by the Bank.
32.1 Bidder has to agree to keep source code of proposed solution with approved /
recognized escrow agency under escrow arrangements mutually acceptable to
the bank and Bidder for entire project period. Cost of the escrow arrangement
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Types of sensitive information that will be found on Bank system‘s which the
Bidder plans to support or have access to include, but are not limited to
Information subject to special statutory protection, legal actions, disciplinary
actions, complaints, IT security, pending cases, civil and criminal investigations,
etc.
The successful Bidder shall not publish or disclose in any manner, without the
Bank‘s prior written consent, the details of any security safeguards designed,
developed, or implemented by the Bidder or existing at any of the Bank location.
The Bidder will have to develop procedures and implementation plans to ensure
that IT resources leaving the control of the assigned user (such as being
reassigned, removed for repair, replaced, or upgraded) are cleared of all Bank
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data and sensitive application software. The Bidder will have to also ensure that
all subcontractors who are involved in providing such security safeguards or part
of it shall not publish or disclose in any manner, without the Bank‘s prior written
consent, the details of any security safeguards designed, developed, or
implemented by the Bidder or existing at any Bank location.
34. Penalty
The Bidder shall perform its obligations under the agreement entered into with
the Bank, in a professional manner.
If any act or failure by the bidder under the agreement results in failure or
inoperability of systems and if the Bank has to take corrective actions to ensure
functionality of its property, the Bank reserves the right to impose penalty, which
may be equal to the cost it incurs or the loss it suffers for such failures.
If the Bidder fails to complete the due performance of the contract in accordance
with the specification and conditions of the offer document, the Bank reserves the
right either to cancel the order or to recover a suitable amount as deemed
reasonable as Penalty / Liquidated Damage for non-performance.
Any financial loss to the Bank on account of fraud taking place due to Successful
Bidder, its employee or their services provider‘s negligence shall be recoverable
from the Successful Bidder along with damages if any with regard to the Bank‘s
reputation and goodwill.
Bank may recover amount of penalty from any payment being released to the
successful bidder, irrespective of the fact whether such payment is relating to this
contract or otherwise.
Bank may impose penalty to the extent of damage to its any equipment, if the
damage was due to the actions directly attributable to the staff of the Bidder.
The Bank reserves the right to recover any dues payable by the selected bidder
from any amount outstanding to the credit of the selected bidder, including the
pending bills, if any, under this contract.
35.1 The Bidder shall have to enter into a ―Service Levels Agreement‖ with Bank
covering all terms and conditions of this tender.
35.2 The bidder needs to strictly adhere to Service Level Agreements (SLA).
Response Time: 30 minutes from the time of complaint.
Resolution Time: 2 hours/4 hours from the time of complaint for calls
respectively.
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35.3 The Bank would expect the bidder to commit to the service level assurances.
The Bidder shall commit to maintain uptime of 99.95 and above per month. The
SLA will be reviewed on a quarterly basis.
98.00% and above but below 99.00% 2 % of total cost of monthly payout.
97% and above but below 98.00% 5 % of total cost of monthly payout.
35.4 Penalties will be applicable due to downtime of OFSAA software application only
and will not be attributed to the bidder on account of any external dependency
due to any problem in OS/Hardware/Network etc.
35.5 In case of absence of the engineer(s), bidder needs to provide the backup
engineer(s). In case backup engineer(s) is not provided by the vendor, Bank will
deduct the penalty of Rs. 10,000.00 per day per engineer for absence of
engineer(s) and the penalty amount will be deducted from the Invoice amount.
35.6 The bidder shall guarantee 99.95 percentage of uptime.
35.7 Further if the number of downtime instances during a month exceeds 3 times,
an additional 0.50% downtime will be reduced from uptime and the penalty will
be calculated accordingly.
35.8 Penalties, if any shall be calculated for every month and recovered from the
next payment payable to the successful bidder.
35.9 Wherever applicable as stated above while effecting any payment, deduction
towards LD payment will be made. Hence the bidder should raise the invoice
deducting the penalty amount.
35.10 The penalty is capped at maximum 10% of Monthly payout.
35.11 Calculation of % Uptime = {(Total uptime of system- downtime of
system)/Uptime of system} * 100
Two set of manual with screen shot and Frequent Asked Question (FAQ) to be
provided with each supplied item/product in soft and hard copy.
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37. Audit
The Bidder shall at all times whenever required furnish all information, records,
data stored in whatsoever form to internal, external, Bank appointed and
statutory/RBI inspecting auditors and extend full cooperation in carrying out of
such inspection. The Bidder will also undertake to co-operate with the RBI to
carry out its supervisory functions and objectives and will furnish all records
and other information as RBI may call for to carry our inspection and/or other
functions. The Bidder is required to facilitate the same at no additional cost and
shall provide uninterrupted access to the documents required by the auditors.
Further the Bidder has to ensure rectification of all the irregularities thus
pointed out by the auditor within a given time frame.
The Bank has right to audit the Application /Source Code by the suitable Security
Auditor.
In line of above, the selected bidder shall ensure that all regulatory, Statutory,
Local Administration requirements are adhered to subsequently while undertaking
deliverable and services over the period of contract without any additional cost to
Bank.
To the extent that the Bank deems it necessary to carry out a program of
inspection and audit to safeguard against threats and hazards to the
confidentiality, integrity, and availability of data, the Bidder shall afford the
Bank‘s representative access to the Bidder‘s facilities, installations, technical
resources, operations, documentation, records, databases and personnel. The
Bidder must provide the Bank access to various monitoring and performance
measurement system (both manual and automated). The Bank has the right to get
the monitoring and performance measurement systems (both manual and
automated) audited without prior approval / notice to the bidder.
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Force Majeure is herein defined as any cause, which is beyond the control of the
selected Bidder or the Bank as the case may be which they could not foresee or
with a reasonable amount of diligence could not have foreseen and which
substantially affect the performance of the Contract, such as:
Provided either party shall within ten (10) days from the occurrence of such a
cause notify the other in writing of such causes. The Bidder or the Bank shall not
be liable for delay in performing his/her obligations resulting from any Force
Majeure cause as referred to and/or defined above.
The Bank reserves the right to cancel the contract in the event of happening one
or more of the following conditions:
39.1 Failure of the successful bidder to accept the contract and furnish the
Performance Bank Guarantee equivalent to 10% of the project cost within
30 days from receipt of purchase contract.
In addition to the cancellation of contract, Bank reserves the right to appropriate the
damages through encashment of Bid Security /Performance Guarantee given by the
Bidder. Bank reserves right to exit at any time after giving notice period of one
month during the contract period.
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the obligations under this RFP contract, the Bank shall have the right to invoke
the Performance Bank Guarantee(s) given by the selected bidder.
The Bank will be entitled to terminate this Contract, without any cost to the Bank
and recover expenditure incurred by Bank, on the happening of any one or
more of the following:
40.1 The selected bidder commits a breach of any of the terms and conditions
of the bid.
40.2 The Successful bidder goes into liquidation voluntarily or otherwise
40.3 An attachment is levied or continues to be levied for a period of 7 days
upon effects of the Agreement.
40.4 The progress regarding the execution of the order accepted by the selected
bidder is found to be unsatisfactory or delay in execution of the contract, the
Bank reserves the right to get the balance contract executed by the another
party of its choice by giving one month‘s notice for the same . In this event,
the selected bidder is bound to make good the additional expenditure, which
Bank may have to incur in executing the balance contract. This clause is
applicable, if for any reason, the contract is cancelled.
40.5 If deductions on account of liquidated damages exceeds more than 10%.
40.6 Non-satisfactory performance of the selected bidder during implementation
and operation.
40.7 An act of omission by the Bidder, its employees, its agents, or employees of
the consortium in the performance of the services provided by this contract.
40.8 Failure to integrate/implement the Project as per the requirements of the
Bank as stated in this RFP.
40.9 Material discrepancies in the Deliverables and Services noted in the
implementation of the Project. Bank reserves the right to procure the same
or similar product from the alternate sources at the risk, cost and
responsibility of the selected bidder.
40.10 The average uptime of the solution in 3 (three) consecutive months of all
together is less than 90%.
40.11 Selected bidder or its sub-contractors are found to be indulging in frauds.
40.12 The bank suffers a reputation loss on account of any activity of successful
bidder penalty is levied by regulatory authority.
40.13 In the event of sub contract or assignment contrary to the terms of
agreement.
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41. Arbitration
All disputes and differences of any kind whatsoever arising out of or in connection
with the purchase order shall be referred to arbitration. The arbitrator may be
appointed by both the parties or in case of disagreement each party may appoint
an arbitrator and such arbitrators shall appoint an Umpire before entering on the
reference. The decision of the Umpire shall be final. Such arbitration shall be
governed by the provisions of Indian Arbitration and Conciliation Act 1996. All
arbitration proceedings shall be at Mumbai, Maharashtra State, India only.
42. Jurisdiction
The bidders have to submit bid through Online except Integrity Pact, Cost of RFP & Bid
security. All documents as per requirement of RFP must be uploaded on the e-
Procurement site https://ubi.abcprocure.com. Original Integrity Pact (IP), DD for Cost
of RFP & DD/BG for EMD must be submitted physically in sealed cover at the following
address on or before scheduled date and time.
To
The General Manager,
Union Bank of India,
Department of Information Technology,
Technology Centre, Adi Shankaracharya Marg,
Opposite Powai Lake, Powai,
Mumbai – 400072.
Bank may, at its discretion, extends this deadline for submission of bids by
releasing corrigendum to this tender document.
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Date:
To,
The General Manager
Union Bank of India
Technology Centre, 5th floor,
Department of Information Technology,
Adi Shankaracharya Marg,
Powai, Andheri (East),
Mumbai, 400072
Dear Sir,
Subject: Our bid for RFP for Installation, Configuration, Customization, Upgradation,
Maintenance and Support of Liquidity risk management module (LRM) in Oracle
Financial Services Analytical Application (OFSAA).
With reference to the above subject, having examined and understood the instructions,
terms and conditions forming part of it, we hereby enclose our offer for the desired
solution as detailed in your above referred RFP.
We further confirm that the offer is in conformity with the terms and conditions as
mentioned in the RFP and all required information as mentioned is enclosed.
We also confirm that the offer shall remain valid for 180 days from the date of the offer.
We understand that the Bank is not bound to accept the RFP either in part or in full and
that the Bank has right to reject the RFP in full or in part without assigning any reasons
whatsoever.
We understand that
a. You are not bound to accept the lowest or any bid received by you, and you may
reject all or any bid.
b. If our Bid for the above job is accepted, we undertake to enter into and execute at
our cost, when called upon by the purchaser to do so, a contract in the prescribed
form. Unless and until a formal contract is prepared and executed, this bid together
with your written acceptance thereof shall constitute a binding contract between
us.
c. If our bid is accepted, we are to be responsible for the due performance of the
contract.
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d. You may accept or entrust the entire work to one Bidder or divide the work to more
than one Bidder without assigning any reason or giving any explanation whatsoever.
e. Bidder means the bidder who is decided and declared so after examination of
commercial bids.
f. We enclose Demand Draft/Bank Guarantee for Rs.20,00,000/- (Rupees Twenty lac
Only) favoring Union Bank of India and payable at Mumbai, towards bid security,
details of the same is as under:
No. :
Date :
Name of Issuing Bank :
Dated at ____________this ____________day of __________2019
We hereby declare that all the information & Statements made in this RFP are true and
accept that any misinterpretation contained in it may lead to our disqualification. We
agree to all terms & conditions of the RFP,
Yours faithfully,
Signature ____________________
Name _______________________
Authorized Signatories
(Name & Designation, seal of the firm)
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To,
The General Manager
Union Bank of India,
Technology Center,
Department of Information Technology,
Adi Shankaracharya Marg,
Powai, Andheri(East),
Mumbai – 400072
Dear Sir,
Having examined the Request for Proposal (RFP) Ref No. _________________ the receipt
of which is hereby duly acknowledged, we, the undersigned, offer to deliver, implement,
customize and commission the various requirements in conformity with the said RFP for
the sum mentioned in the Price Bid or such other sums as may be ascertained in
accordance with the Schedule of Prices attached and made part of this Bid.
We undertake, if our Bid is accepted, to deliver the goods/ provide the services in
accordance with the Delivery Schedule / implementation schedule specified.
We agree to abide by this bid for a period of 180 days from the last date of submission of
Bid and shall remain binding upon us and may be accepted at any time before the
expiration of that period.
We further confirm that, in case we offer system and/or other software manufactured by
another company, such software operates effectively on the system offered by us and we
are willing to accept responsibility for its successful operations.
Until a formal contract is prepared and executed, this bid, together with your written
acceptance thereof and your Notification of Award, shall constitute a binding Contract
between us.
We undertake that, in competing for (and, if the award is made to us, in executing) the
above contract, we will strictly observe the laws against fraud and corruption in force in
India namely ―Prevention of Corruption Act 1988‖.
Commissions or gratuities, if any paid or to be paid by us to agents relating to this Bid, and
to contract execution if we are awarded the contract, are listed below:
Name & address of agent Amount & currency Purpose of commission or gratuity
*(If none, state none)
We understand that you are not bound to accept the lowest or any bid you may receive.
Dated this........ Day of ............... 2019
(Signature)
(In the capacity of)
Duly authorized to sign bid with seal for & on behalf of (Name & Address of the Bidder)
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Serial
Parameters Response
No.
1 Name of the Firm/Company
2 Year of Incorporation in India
3 Names of the Partners/Directors
Name and Address of the Principal
4
Banker
Addresses of Firm/Company
5 a) Head Office
b) Local Office in Mumbai(if any)
Authorized Contact person
a) Name and Designation
6
b) Telephone number
c) E-mail ID.
Financial parameters
Annual Turnover Operating Profit
Business Results (last three years)
(Rs. in Crores) (Rs. in Crores)
2016-17
7 2017-18
2018-19
(Only company figures need to be
(Mention the above amount in INR
mentioned. Not to include
only)
group/subsidiary Company figures)
Bidder‘s experience in software
design, implementation of
LRM/ALM/FTP/PM in OFSAA (in years)
8
a)Experience in India
b)Global Experience
Details of project executed with Name of No. of Years in
(OFSAA) Customer Use
LRM
9. ALM
FTP
PM
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Authorized Signatory:
Place: Name & Designation:
Date: Business Address & email id:
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Bidder's
S. No. Clause Details Compliance
(Yes/No)
1 Introduction
2 Integrity Pact (IP)
3 Objectives of The RFP
4 Invitation of Tender Bids
5 Eligibility Criteria
6 Broad Scope Of Work
7 Infrastructure
8 Support
9 Implementation Plan And Schedule
10 Instructions For Bid Submission
11 General Terms
12 Rejection Of Bid
14 Modification And Withdrawals Of Bid
14 RFP Response
15 Liquidated Damage (LD)
16 Warranty
17 Contract Period
18 Annual Technical Support Agreement
19 Patent Rights
20 Price Validity
21 Payment Terms
22 Adherence of Cyber Security Policy
23 Authorized Signatory
24 Minimum Wages
25 Paying Authority
26 Confidentiality
27 Indemnity
28 Intellectual Property Rights
29 Non-Transferable Offer
30 Normalization of Bids
31 Responsibility for Completeness
32 Customization Process
33 Escrow Arrangement
34 Ownership and Retention of Documents
35 Penalty
36 Service Levels Agreement
37 Documents and Manuals
38 Audit
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Bidder's
S. No. Clause Details Compliance
(Yes/No)
39 Force Majeure
40 Exit Clause
41 Termination of Contract
42 Arbitration
43 Jurisdiction
44 Submission of Bids
Authorized Signatory:
Place: Name & Designation:
Date: Business Address & email id:
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Sr. Complied
Reports/Specifications Remarks
No. (Yes/No)
Liquidity Risk
1
Management
Daily computation & generation for
Domestic operations, overseas operations
territories wise / consolidated, Overseas
Subsidiaries wise/consolidated,
standalone, consolidated and group
level.
Daily Computation & drill down the
reports at most granular level viz.
Jurisdiction Level, Base Currency,
Chosen Currency, Converted Currency,
Instrument Level , Product Level.
Multi select options in each filters, each
prompts and report head / item level.
Amount Filters viz. reports in crores, lacs
thousands, actual, million, billion,
trillion, etc.
Daily average data points on weekly,
fortnightly, monthly, quarterly, half
yearly and yearly basis, Disclosure of
BLR-1 – Liquidity LCR.
1.01
Coverage Ratio (LCR) Parameterization of runoff factors,
multipliers, no. of days 30 Days-90Days-1
Year etc.
Designing Dashboard with all the major
information.
Reports should be developed as per
relevant RBI guidelines and as per
additional requirements / Policy of the
Bank.
Bank should be able to generate reports
on provisional data/figures and Audited
data/Figures for audit and reporting
purpose.
Reports should be well designed to arrive
audited/Post MOC (Memorandum of
correction) reports after incorporating
modification, correction and
adjustments suggested by auditors and
officials.
Any other requirements/gap found while
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Sr. Complied
Reports/Specifications Remarks
No. (Yes/No)
studying functional requirements /
finalization of BRD/SRS.
BLR-2 – Funding
1.02 --DO--
Concentration
BLR-3 – Available
1.03 --DO--
unencumbered Assets
BLR-4 – LCR by
1.04 --DO--
Significant Currency
BLR-5 – Other
1.05 --DO--
Information on Liquidity
BLR-6 - Intraday
1.06 --DO--
Liquidity Management
--DO--
Vender should acquire necessary License
for product for implementation of NSFR
as per RBI guidelines & Banks
requirement.
Basel III Net Stable
2 Vendors should be capable enough to
Funding Ratio (NSFR)
provide functional expertise to develop
NSFR requirements.
Any other requirements/gap found while
studying functional requirements /
finalization of BRD/SRS.
--Do--
Reports should be developed as per the
requirements of the Bank.
Vendors should be capable enough to
Stressed LCR and NSFR provide functional expertise to develop
and based on projected stressed and Projected LCR & NSFR
3 business Reports. (Prior implementation /
growth/Internal development experience is required).
Assumptions. Capability to simulate LCR and NSFR by
on projection of business growth.
Any other requirements/gap found while
studying functional requirements /
finalization of BRD/SRS.
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(Yes/No)
Parameterization of Time Buckets.
Daily computation & generation for
Domestic operations, overseas operations
territories wise / consolidated, Overseas
Subsidiaries wise/consolidated,
standalone, consolidated and group
level.
Daily Computation & drill down the
reports at most granular level viz.
Jurisdiction Level, Base Currency,
Chosen Currency, Converted Currency,
Instrument Level, Product Level.
Multi select options in each filters, each
prompts and report head/item level.
Amount Filters viz. reports in crores, lacs
thousands, actual, million, billion,
trillion, etc.
Statement of Designing Dashboard with all the major
4. Structural Liquidity information.
(Liquidity Returns) Reports should be developed as per
relevant RBI guidelines and as per
additional requirements/Policy of the
Bank.
Bank should be able to generate reports
on provisional data/figures and Audited
data/Figures for audit and reporting
purpose.
Reports should be well designed to arrive
audited/Post MOC (Memorandum of
correction) reports after incorporating
modification, correction and
adjustments suggested by auditors and
officials.
To develop ALM Disclosure.
Any other requirements/gap found while
studying functional requirements /
finalization of BRD/SRS.
Part A1 - Statement of
Structural Liquidity -
4.01 --DO--
Domestic Currency -
Indian Operations
Part A2 - Statement of
4.02 Structural Liquidity - --DO--
Currency Wise- Indian
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Operations
Part A3 Statement of
Structural Liquidity -
Combined Indian
4.03 Operations - Domestic --DO--
and Foreign currency
i.e. LR -1 Part A1 +
Part A2)
Part B (i)- Statement of
Structural Liquidity for
4.04 Overseas Branch --DO--
Operations - Country
Wise
Part B (ii)- Statement
of Structural Liquidity
4.05 for Subsidiaries /JVs / --DO--
Associates - Country
Wise
Part C - Statement of
Structural Liquidity - --DO--
4.06
For Consolidated Bank Standalone and group level
Operations
Extracting the actual inflows and
outflows for the relevant time buckets of
Dynamic Liquidity Reports.
To accept projections from business
units at each of the following levels viz.
Line of Business, General Ledger Line,
Item as per Dynamic Liquidity format of
RBI Product / instrument level, Asset
Dynamic Liquidity class level, Both at each time bucket
Statement-Domestic, level and at an aggregate level, in the
Overseas, subsidiaries, form of Absolute figures and/or
5 joint venture, Percentage.
Consolidate at various To develop multiple dynamic liquidity
levels, Global & Group profiles with different bucketing
Level. assumptions, time buckets and
projections.
To drill down the dynamic liquidity
profile to the desired granularity (i.e.
position level, product level, GL Level
etc.)
Capable of generating the dynamic
liquidity profile in multiple currencies
viz. base currency, chosen currency,
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reporting currency, converted currency.
To facilitate projections for horizon
period. E.g.: 3 months, 12 months, 3
years, 5years etc.
Any other requirements/gap found while
studying functional requirements /
finalization of BRD/SRS.
To conduct back testing of dynamic
liquidity reports by comparing archived
dynamic liquidity report as on a date
Back Testing of with the target horizon date.
Dynamic Liquidity To calculate the differences in projected
Statement-Domestic, values in dynamic liquidity report and
Overseas, subsidiaries, actual values at each of the following
6
joint venture, levels viz. levels viz. Line of Business,
Consolidate at various General Ledger Line, Item as per
levels, Global & Group Dynamic Liquidity format of RBI Product
Level. / instrument level / Vertical Level.
Any other requirements/gap found while
studying functional requirements /
finalization of BRD/SRS.
Parameterization of Time Buckets.
Computation & generation for Domestic
operations, overseas operations
territories wise/consolidated, Overseas
Subsidiaries wise/consolidated,
standalone, consolidated and group level
as per defined frequency.
Drill down the reports at most granular
level viz. Jurisdiction Level, Base
Currency, Chosen Currency, Converted
Currency, Instrument Level, Product
Level.
Interest Rate
7 Multi select options in each filters, each
Sensitivity Statements
prompts and report head/item level.
Amount filters viz. reports in crores, lacs
thousands, actual, million, billion,
trillion, etc.
Designing Dashboard with all the major
information.
Reports should be developed as per
relevant RBI guidelines and as per
additional requirements/Policy of the
Bank.
Bank should be able to generate reports
on provisional data/figures and Audited
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Sr. No. Reports/Specifications Remarks
(Yes/No)
data/Figures for audit and reporting
purpose.
Reports should be well designed to arrive
audited/Post MOC (Memorandum of
correction) reports after incorporating
modification, correction and
adjustments suggested by auditors and
officials.
Reports should be generated on Whole
Bank basis, Banking Book Basis and
Trading Book Basis. Whole Bank, Banking
Book and Trading Book Basis reports
should be generated on Book Value and
Market Value.
To define customized curves as coupon
curves and yield curves. To accept the
data feeds from external agencies such
as FIMMDA, Reuters, to be used as
coupon and yield curves. To create
interface with source system to get yield
curves for Interest Rate Risk Reports.
Any other requirements/gap found while
studying functional requirements /
finalization of BRD/SRS.
Statement of Interest
Rate Sensitivity under
7.01 Traditional Gap --DO--
Analysis (IRST) -
Currency Wise
Statement of Interest
Rate Sensitivity under
7.02 --DO--
Duration Gap Analysis
(IRSD) - Currency Wise
Coupon & Yield -
7.03 --DO--
IRSDGA - Currency Wise
Memorandum - IRST -
7.04 --DO--
Currency Wise
Parameterization of Time Buckets.
Computation & generation for Domestic
operations, overseas operations
Interest Rate Risk in territories wise/consolidated, Overseas
8 Banking Book (New RBI Subsidiaries wise/consolidated,
Guidelines) standalone, consolidated and group level
as per defined frequency.
Drill down the reports at most granular
level viz. Jurisdiction Level, Base
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Sr. No. Reports/Specifications Remarks
(Yes/No)
Currency, Chosen Currency, Converted
Currency, Instrument Level, Product
Level.
Multi select options in each filters, each
prompts and report head/item level.
Amount Filters viz. reports in crores, lacs
thousands, actual, million, billion,
trillion, etc.
Designing Dashboard with all the major
information.Reports should be developed
as per relevant RBI guidelines and as per
additional requirements/Policy of the
Bank.
Bank should be able to generate reports
on provisional data/figures and Audited
data/Figures for audit and reporting
purpose.
Reports should be well designed to arrive
audited/Post MOC (Memorandum of
correction) reports after incorporating
modification, correction and
adjustments suggested by auditors and
officials.
Reports should be generated on Whole
Bank basis, Banking Book Basis and
Trading Book Basis. Whole Bank, Banking
Book and Trading Book Basis reports
should be generated on Book Value and
Market Value.
As of now, RBI has published only draft
guidelines on IRRBB.
Vender has to develop IRRBB based on
forthcoming RBI Final IRRBB guidelines.
Vender should make implementation
plan in such a way so that whenever RBI
published final guidelines on IRRBB, they
should be able to develop the same
based on final guidelines.
Incase RBI shall not come with Final
IRRBB guidelines before go live of this
project, Vender has to develop IRRBB
based on Draft guidelines.
While developing / implementing IRRBB
based on draft RBI guidelines, if RBI
comes with Final IRRBB guidelines then
Vender has to develop IRRBB based on
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(Yes/No)
Final RBI guidelines without any change
request during any phase/stage of
implementation.
Any other requirements/gap found while
studying functional requirements /
finalization of BRD/SRS.
Computation of Capital Requirements
under Pillar 2 for IRRBB under ICAAP.
Capital adequacy assessments for IRRBB.
The impact of shock and stress scenarios
on positions priced off different interest
rate indices (basis risk).
The impact on economic value and NII of
mismatched positions in different
currencies.
The impact of embedded losses.
Computation of Earnings at Risk for
Banking Book.
Support for Flexible stress scenarios,
Market / Historical rate driven stress
scenarios, Currency wise stress
8.01 IRRBB
scenarios, Negative Rate scenarios,
Geographically impacted stress
scenarios, Measurement of parallel and
nonparallel gap risk, basis risk and option
risk.
Reverse Stress Test to identify interest
rate scenarios that could severely
threaten banks‘ capital and earnings.
IRRBB should be designed/developed in
such way that Bank could be able to
generate the IRS Whole Bank Basis
Reports based on IRRBB guidelines.
Any other requirements/gap found while
studying functional requirements /
finalization of BRD/SRS.
Liquidity Risk and Interest Rate Risk
Stress Testing and Pillar 2 Requirements
under both the Risk are to be developed
based on RBI Guidelines and Banks
Stress Testing and
internal
9 Pillar 2 Requirement of
Requirements/Policy/Assumptions as per
ICAAP
defined frequency.
Interest Rate Risk Stress Testing should
be developed under TGA and DGA
method with Whole Bank and Banking
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(Yes/No)
Book to see the impact on NII & Net
worth under various interest Rate Shock
Scenarios viz. Parallel, non Parallel,
Steeping, inversion, upward, downward,
Product Level shocks.
We expect that Vender should have prior
experience of development of Stress
Testing.
Vender should be well capable to suggest
and develop assumptions for Stress
Testing.
Any other requirements/gap found while
studying functional requirements /
finalization of BRD/SRS.
To Build Stress Testing in terms of RBI
Liquidity Risk Stress Guidelines, Bank Policy, Internal
9.01
Testing requirements/Assumptions and
Functional expertise of Vender.
To Build Stress Testing in terms of RBI
Interest Rate Risk Guidelines, Bank Policy, Internal
9.02
Stress Testing requirements/Assumptions and
Functional expertise of Vender.
To Build Stress Testing in terms of RBI
Macro-economic stress Guidelines, Bank Policy, Internal
9.03
Testing requirements/Assumptions and
Functional expertise of Vender.
To build a database, menu, SQL/PSQL for
generation of data for performing
following behavioral study in terms of
RBI and Banks Internal requirements at
any given point of time viz. Renewal
Pattern of Term Deposits, Behavioral &
seasonal pattern of Cash Credit,
Overdraft & Demand Loans, Pre mature
withdrawal pattern of Term Deposits,
Pre-payment pattern of Term Loan,
10 Behavioral Studies
Behavioral Pattern of Savings & Current
Deposits, Unavailed portion of Cash
Credit, Overdrafts & Demand Loans and
term Loan, Behavioral analysis of Bills
Payable, Behavioral analysis of
Devolvement / Invocations pattern of
LC/LG, Behavioural Analysis, Potential
availments in Undrawn Exposure of
Credit Lines to Mutual Funds & Others,
Potential Availments in Claims against
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Complied
Sr. No. Reports/Specifications Remarks
(Yes/No)
the Bank not acknowledged as Debts and
etc.
Any other requirements/gap found while
studying functional requirements /
finalization of BRD/SRS.
Complied
Sr. No. Reports/Specifications Remarks
(Yes/No)
Currency Wise, Chosen Currency, Base
Currency, Converted Currency, Account
Classification Level, Fund Based and Non
Fund Based, Impact Calculations and
combination of above.
No. of Account and Amount (in crores,
lacs, actual), Rating Wise.
Advances Linked to Benchmarks viz. Base
Rate, BPLR, MCLR and Others, Fixed and
Floating Rate Advances.
Duration and Modified Duration
Calculations of each product.
Maturity position with WaR of Deposits,
Borrowings, Investments and Advances
with above filters as per defined
Frequency.
As of Date and Trend/Summary position
reports as per defined frequency.
Reports should be developed as per
relevant RBI guidelines and as per
internal requirements / Policy of the
Bank.
To Modify, upgrade, change & develop
the reports as per the current
requirements.
Daily Generation of Report along with
Trend Report as per defined frequency.
Any other requirements/gap found while
studying functional requirements /
finalization of BRD/SRS.
Average Rate of Term
11.03 Deposits/Term Loans --Do--
(as on the day)
Marginal Cost/yield of
11.04 Deposits/Advances --DO--
(incremental/renewal)
Daily Generation of Report along with
Trend Report as per defined frequency.
Reports should be developed as per
relevant RBI guidelines and as per
internal requirements / Policy of the
11.05 Prudential Ratio:
Bank.
Jurisdiction-wise, Global Level, Group
Level, Consolidate at various Level,
Currency Wise, Chosen Currency, Base
Currency, Converted Currency, Amount
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Sr. No. Reports/Specifications Remarks
(Yes/No)
(in crores, lacs, actual).
To Modify, upgrade, change & develop
the reports as per the current
requirements.
Daily Generation of Report along with
Fortnightly Trend Report.
Any other requirements/gap found while
studying functional requirements /
finalization of BRD/SRS.
11.06 RBI Ratios --DO--
11.07 Internal Ratios --DO--
11.08 Money Market Limits --DO--
Creation of ―what if‖ scenarios
Impact on NIM due to new business -
selected products, selected size of
deposits etc/ change in business
Forecasting
11.09 parameters
requirements
Impact on deposit growth with change in
rates
Impact on profit due to change in volume
/ change in interest rates
--DO—means remarks applicable for previous point shall be valid for current point in
additional to remarks given in current point.
Important Points:
1. During any phase/Milestones of this Project, successful bidder shall have to
incorporate the Regulatory changes/modification in their guidelines pertaining to
all the above Reports.
2. While upgrading OFSAA modules/application to the latest version, successful bidder
shall have to modify and develop all the above reports as well as any new reports as
per current & future requirements of the Bank based on RBI Guidelines and Banks
Requirements/Policy.
3. Successful bidder shall have to create an interface among the banks systems and
application for any purpose wherever required.
4. Successful bidder should acquire necessary Licenses for NSFR under LRM module for
implementation based on RBI guidelines & Banks requirements.
5. In case RBI shall not come with Final IRRBB guidelines before go live of this project,
Successful bidder has to develop IRRBB based on Draft guidelines.
6. While developing / implementing IRRBB based on draft RBI guidelines, if RBI comes
with Final IRRBB guidelines then successful bidder has to develop IRRBB based on
Final RBI guidelines without any change request during any phase/stage of
implementation.
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7. While developing & designing the above reports, successful bidder should take care
of the time zone of different jurisdiction/territory wherever Bank is having
branches/subsidiaries (Indian and Overseas Branch) so there should not be any
dependency/inter dependency due to time zone for generation of above reports.
8. Even though LRM will share the same database as FTP, PM and ALM, if any new data
need to be extracted in the OFSAA system, the Extraction, Transformation and
Loading of such items will be considered under the scope of the project.
9. Successful bidder should design the reports in such way that in case
addition/modification/deletion of any new branch, overseas branch, any subsidiary
can be automatically configured and added in the system so that no extra efforts
and change requested needed for doing the above.
10. Constitution refers to Individual, Jointly, Government, Public, Occupation etc.
Important Points:
1. All the above reports must have drill down facility up to account level.
2. While upgrading OFSAA modules/application to the latest version, Vender shall have
to modify and develop all the above reports as well as any new report as per
current & future requirements of the Bank based on Bank‘s Requirement Policy.
3. Vendor shall also modify the implementation of the FTP and PM modules under
existing system as per the future requirements of the Bank‘s policy during the
course of upgrade.
4. The implementation of the profitability manager module to arrive at product,
customer and account level profitability shall also be undertaken by the vendor.
5. While developing & designing the above reports, Vender should take care of the
time zone of different jurisdiction/territory wherever Bank is having
branches/subsidiaries so there should not be any dependency/inter dependency due
to time zone for generation of above reports.
6. Even though LRM will share the same database as FTP, PM and ALM, if any new data
need to be extracted in the OFSAA system, the Extraction, Transformation and
Loading of such items will be considered under the scope of the project.
7. Vendor should facilitate integration of domestic and overseas operations in the
application to generate consolidated reports for the Bank.
8. Vendor should designed the reports in such way that in case
addition/modification/deletion of any new branch(domestic, overseas or any
subsidiary) can be automatically configured and added in the system so that no
extra efforts and change requested needed for doing.
Authorized Signatory:
Place: Name & Designation:
Date: Business Address & email id:
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Note
a. The bidder needs to clearly indicate if there are any recurring costs included in the
above bid and quantify the same. In the absence of this, the bidder would need to
provide the same without any charge. Bidder should make no changes to the
quantity.
b. If the cost for any line item is indicated as zero then it will be assumed by the Bank
that the said item is provided to the Bank without any cost.
c. All Deliverables to be supplied as per RFP requirements provided in the tender
d. The Service Charges need to include all services and other requirement as mentioned
in the RFP
e. The bidder has to make sure all the arithmetical calculations are accurate. Bank will
not be held responsible for any incorrect calculations.
f. The Total cost to Ownership (TCO) is exclusive of all taxes i.e. GST
(CGST/SGST/IGST), which will be payable at actual at the time of invoicing.
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h. Successful bidder has to deploy 1 onsite resources for OFSAA version 5.6 for existing
modules i.e. ALM, FTP & PM within 2 weeks of issuance of purchase order.
i. Bank may take additional resource/s as per discovered price through this tender
process. As the TCO is for two onsite resources, cost of additional onsite resource
will be derived proportionately from the TCO of successful bidder.
j. *In case project implementation spills over more than 1 year, then no extra cost for
FM deployed for OFSAA version 5.6 for existing module to be paid by the Bank and
bidder has to provide FM support till Go-live without any additional cost. The number
of onsite resources for existing modules is only one in TCO. However, Bidder has to
provide additional onsite resources at the same cost as per requirement of the Bank
during the implementation period.
Place:
Date: Authorized Signatory
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Notes:
a. The bidder needs to clearly indicate if there are any recurring costs included in the
above bid and quantify the same. In the absence of this, the bidder would need to
provide the same without any charge. Bidder should make no changes to the
quantity.
b. If the cost for any line item is indicated as zero then it will be assumed by the Bank
that the said item is provided to the Bank without any cost.
c. All Deliverables to be supplied as per RFP requirements provided in the tender
d. The Service Charges need to include all services and other requirement as
mentioned in the RFP
e. The bidder has to make sure all the arithmetical calculations are accurate. Bank
will not be held responsible for any incorrect calculations.
f. The Total cost to Ownership (TCO) is exclusive of all taxes i.e. GST
(CGST/SGST/IGST), which will be payable at actual at the time of invoicing.
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h. Successful bidder has to deploy 1 onsite resources for OFSAA version 5.6 for existing
modules i.e. ALM, FTP & PM within 2 weeks of issuance of purchase order.
i. Bank may take additional resource/s as per discovered price through this tender
process. As the TCO is for two onsite resources, cost of additional onsite resource
will be derived proportionately from the TCO of successful bidder.
j. *In case project implementation spills over more than 1 year, then no extra cost for
FM deployed for OFSAA version 5.6 for existing module to be paid by the Bank and
bidder has to provide FM support till Go-live without any additional cost. The
number of onsite resources for existing modules is only one in TCO. However,
Bidder has to provide additional onsite resources at the same cost as per
requirement of the Bank during the implementation period.
Place:
Date: Authorized Signatory
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The reference sites submitted must be necessarily of those Banks/Companies where the
bidder has been awarded the contract prior to date of issuance of this RFP.
______________. For those references where the offered solution is accepted but
implementation is not started, the acceptance should be valid as on the last date for
submission of bids at Union Bank of India.
Particulars Response
Name of the Bank/ Financial Institution
Country of Operation
Address of the Organization
Date of commencement of Project
Date of completion of Project (if completed)
Status (completed/ in progress)
Scope of Work for Solution
Project Details
a. Operating System
b. Application Software
c. Network Topology
d. Programming language
e. Middleware
f. Security features
g. Maintenance & support
Place:
Date:
Signature:
Name & Designation:
Business Address:
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Note: Enclose
1. Copies of Audited Balance Sheets and P&L statements along with enclosures for last 3
financial years
2. Copies of Articles of association and Memorandum of Association
3. Copies of certificate of incorporation/certificate of commencement of Business
Place:
Date:
Signature:
Name & Designation:
Business Address:
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Requirement Response
Current strength of employees in the bidder
organization with experience on the proposed
product(s)
Current strength of employees in the bidder
organization with experience in similar projects
Does the team posses in‐depth knowledge of the
industry and is thereby capable of bringing
independent market knowledge to the bank?
Team Profile
Name
Designation
Professional Qualifications
Experience with the bidding firm
Experience with other companies
Membership in any professional body
Details of projects handled with details of client,
representing which organization, as member of
the team or team leader etc
Note:
a. Include details of team members who will be involved in the project along with
their CV and their brief profile.
b. Relevant experience refers to the experience of the employee on either exactly the
same product / set of products being proposed or on similar projects.
c. Proposed team structure with count, profile and skills to be provided by bidder
along with proposed solutions profile, skills, etc to be provided in RFP response
Place:
Date:
Signature:
Name & Designation:
Place:
Date:
Signature:
Name & Designation:
Business Address:
Place:
Date:
Signature:
Name & Designation:
Business Address:
INTEGRITY PACT
1. Whereas Union Bank of India having its registered office at Union Bank Bhavan, 239,
Vidhan Bhavan Marg, Nariman Point, Mumbai, India -400 021 acting through its
……………… Department, represented by General Manager / Dy. General Manager
hereinafter referred to as the Buyer and the first party, proposes to procure (Name
or category of the Equipment, services, etc.) hereinafter referred to as Stores and /
or Services.
And
3. Preamble
Buyer has called for tenders under laid down organizational procedures intending to
enter into contract /s for supply / purchase / etc of __________________ and the
Bidder /Seller is one amongst several bidders /Proprietary Vendor /Customer
Nominated Source/Licensor who has indicated a desire to bid/supply in such tendering
process. The Buyer values and takes primary responsibility for values full compliance
with all relevant laws of the land, rules, regulations, economic use of resources and of
fairness / transparency in its relations with its Bidder (s) and / or Seller(s).
In order to achieve these goals, the Buyer will appoint Independent External Monitor(s)
(IEM) in consultation with Central Vigilance Commission, who will monitor the tender
process and the execution of the contract for compliance with the principles mentioned
above.
4. 1 The Buyer commits itself to take all measures necessary to prevent corruption and
fraudulent practices and to observe the following principles:-
(ii) The Buyer will during the tender process treat all Bidder(s) /Seller(s) with
equity and reason. The Buyer will in particular, before and during the tender
process, provide to all Bidder (s) /Seller(s) the same information and will not
provide to any Bidders(s) /Seller(s) confidential /additional information
through which the Bidder(s) / Seller(s) could obtain an advantage in relation
to the process or the contract execution.
(iii) The Buyer will exclude from the process all known prejudiced persons.
4.2 If the Buyer obtains information on the conduct of any of its employees which is a
criminal offence under the Indian Legislation Prevention of Corruption Act 1988 as
amended from time to time or if there be a substantive suspicion in this regard,
the Buyer will inform to its Chief Vigilance Officer and in addition can initiate
disciplinary action.
5.1 The Bidder(s)/ Seller(s) commit itself to take necessary measures to prevent
corruption. He commits himself to observe the following principles during his
participation in the tender process and during the contract execution.
(i) The Bidder(s) /Seller(s) will not directly or through any other persons or
firm, offer promise or give to any of the Buyer‘s employees involved in the
tender process or the execution of the contract or to any third person any
material or other benefit which he / she is not legally entitled to, in order to
obtain in exchange any advantage during the tendering or qualification
process or during the execution of the contract.
(ii) The Bidder(s) /Seller(s) will not enter with other Bidders / Sellers into any
undisclosed agreement or understanding, whether formal or informal. This
applies in particular to prices, specifications, certifications, subsidiary
contracts, submission or non submission of bids or any other actions to
restrict competitiveness or to introduce cartelization in the bidding process.
(iii) The bidder(s) /Seller(s) will not commit any offence under the Indian
legislation, Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 as amended from time to
time. Further, the Bidder(s) /Seller(s) will not use improperly, for purposes
of competition or personal gain, or pass on to others, any information or
document provided by the Buyer as part of the business relationship,
regarding plans, technical proposals and business details, including
information constrained or transmitted electronically.
(iv) The Bidder(s) /Seller(s) shall ensure compliance of the provisions of this
Integrity Pact by its sub-supplier(s) / sub-contractor(s), if any, Further, the
Bidder /Seller shall be held responsible for any violation/breach of the
provisions by its sub-supplier(s) /Sub-contractor(s).
5.2 The Bidder(s) /Seller(s) shall ensure compliance of the provisions of this Integrity
Pact by its sub-supplier(s) / sub-contractor(s), if any, Further, the Bidder /Seller
shall be held responsible for any violation /breach of the provisions by its sub-
supplier(s) /sub-contractor(s).
5.3 The Bidder(s) /Seller(s) will not instigate third persons to commit offences outlined
above or be an accessory to such offences.
The Bidder /Seller confirms and declares to the Buyer that the bidder/Seller is the
original manufacturer/authorized distributor / stockiest of original manufacturer or
Govt. Sponsored /Designated Export Agencies (applicable in case of countries where
domestic laws do not permit direct export by OEMS of the stores and /or Services
referred to in this tender / Offer / contract / Purchase Order and has not engaged
any individual or firm, whether Indian or Foreign whatsoever, to intercede,
facilitate or in any way to recommend to Buyer or any of its functionaries, whether
officially or unofficially, to the award of the tender / contract / Purchase order to
the Seller/Bidder; nor has any amount been paid, promised or intended to be paid
to any such individual or firm in respect of any such intercession, facilitation or
recommendation. The Seller / Bidder agrees that if it is established at any time to
the satisfaction of the Buyer that the present declaration is in anyway incorrect or
if at a later stage it is discovered by the Buyer that the Seller incorrect or if at a
later stage it is discovered by the Buyer that the Seller/Bidder has engaged any
such individual /firm, and paid or intended to pay any amount, gift, reward, fees,
commission or consideration to such person, party, firm or institution, whether
before or after the signing of this contract /Purchase order, the Seller /Bidder will
be liable to refund that amount to the Buyer. The Seller will also be debarred from
participating in any RFP / Tender for new projects / program with Buyer for a
minimum period of five years. The Buyer will also have a right to consider
cancellation of the Contract / Purchase order either wholly or in part, without any
entitlement of compensation to the Seller /Bidder who shall in such event be liable
to refund agents / agency commission payments to the buyer made by the Seller
/Bidder along with interest at the rate of 2% per annum above LIBOR (London Inter
Bank Offer Rate) (for foreign vendors) and Base Rate of SBI (State Bank of India)
plus 2% (for Indian vendors). The Buyer will also have the right to recover any such
amount from any contracts / Purchase order concluded earlier or later with Buyer.
6. Previous Transgression
6.1 The Bidder /Seller declares that no previous transgressions have occurred in the
last three years from the date of signing of this Integrity Pact with any other
company in any country conforming to the anti corruption approach or with any
other Public Sector Enterprise in India that could justify Bidder‘s /Seller‘s
exclusion from the tender process.
6.2 If the Bidder /Seller makes incorrect statement on this subject, Bidder /Seller can
be disqualified from the tender process or the contract, if already awarded, can
be terminated for such reason without any liability whatsoever on the Buyer.
Bidders /Sellers are also advised to have a company code of conduct (clearly
rejecting the use of bribes and other unethical behavior) and a compliance program
for the implementation of the code of conduct throughout the company.
8.1 If the Bidder(s) /Seller(s), before award or during execution has committed a
transgression through a violation of Clause 5, above or in any other form such as to
put his reliability or credibility in question, the Buyer is entitled to disqualify the
Bidder(s) /Seller (s) from the tender process or take action as per the procedure
mentioned herein below:
(i) To disqualify the Bidder /Seller with the tender process and exclusion from
future contracts.
(ii) To debar the Bidder /Seller from entering into any bid from Buyer for a
period of two years.
(iii) To immediately cancel the contract, if already signed /awarded without any
liability on the Buyer to compensate the Bidder /Seller for damages, if any.
Subject to Clause 5, any lawful payment due to the Bidder/Seller for
supplies effected till date of termination would be made in normal course.
(iv) To encash EMD /Advance Bank Guarantees / Performance Bonds / Warranty
Bonds, etc. which may have been furnished by the Bidder /Seller to the
extent of the undelivered Stores and / or Services.
9.1 If the Buyer has disqualified the Bidder(s) /Seller(s) from the tender process prior
to the award according to Clause 8, the Buyer is entitled to demand and recover
the damages equivalent to Earnest Money Deposit in case of open tendering.
9.2 If the Buyer has terminated the contract according to Clause 8, or if the Buyer is
entitled to terminate the contract according to Clause 8, the Buyer shall be
entitled to encash the advance bank guarantee and performance bond / warranty
bond, if furnished by the Bidder / Seller, in order to recover the payments,
already made by the Buyer for undelivered Stores and / or Services.
The Bidder undertakes that it has not supplied /is not supplying same or similar
product/systems or subsystems at a price lower than that offered in the present Bid in
respect of any other Ministry /Department of the Government of India or PSU or Coal
India Ltd and its subsidiaries during the currency of the contract and if it is found at any
stage that same or similar product /Systems or Subsystems was supplied by the Bidder
to any other Ministry /Department of the Government of India or a PSU or any Public
Sector Bank at a lower price during the currency of the contract, then that very price
will be applicable to the present case and the difference in the cost would be refunded
by the Bidder to the Buyer, if the contract has already been concluded‖.
11.1 The Buyer has appointed independent External Monitors for this Integrity Pact in
consultation with the Central Vigilance Commission (Names and Addresses of the
Monitors to be given in RFP).
11.2 As soon as the integrity Pact is signed, the Buyer shall provide a copy thereof,
along with a brief background of the case to the independent External Monitors.
11.3 The Bidder(s) / Seller(s) if they deem it necessary, May furnish any information
as relevant to their bid to the Independent External Monitors.
11.4 If any complaint with regard to violation of the IP is received by the buyer in a
procurement case, the buyer shall refer the complaint to the Independent
External Monitors for their comments / enquiry.
11.5 If the Independent External Monitors need to peruse the records of the buyer in
connection with the complaint sent to them by the buyer, the buyer shall make
arrangement for such perusal of records by the independent External Monitors.
11.6 The report of enquiry, if any, made by the Independent External Monitors shall
be submitted to MD & CEO, Union Bank Of India, Union Bank Bhavan, Vidhan
Bhavan Marg, Nariman Point, Mumbai -21 within 2 weeks, for a final and
appropriate decision in the matter keeping in view the provision of this Integrity
Pact.
This Integrity Pact is subject to Indian Laws, and exclusive Jurisdiction of Courts at
Mumbai, India.
The actions stipulated in this Integrity Pact are without prejudice to any other legal
action that may follow in accordance with the provision of the extant law in force
relating to any civil or criminal proceedings.
14.1 This Integrity Pact begins when both parties have legally signed it. It expires
for the successful Bidder / Seller 10 months after the last payment under the
contract, and for all other Bidders / Sellers within 6 months form date of
placement of order / finalization of contract.
14.2 If any claim is made/ lodged during this time, the same shall be binding and
continue to be valid despite the lapse of this Integrity Pact as specified above,
unless it is discharged / determined by MD & CEO, Union Bank of India.
14.3 Should one or several provisions of this Integrity Pact turn out to be invalid, the
reminder of this Integrity Pact remains valid. In this case, the parties will strive
to come to an agreement to their original intentions.
15 Other Provisions
15.1 Changes and supplements need to be made in writing. Side agreements have not
been made.
15.2 The Bidders (s)/ Sellers (s) signing this IP shall not initiate any Legal action or
approach any court of law during the examination of any allegations/complaint
by IEM and until the IEM delivers its report.
15.3 In view of nature of this Integrity Pact, this Integrity Pact shall not be terminated
by any party and will subsist throughout its stated period.
15.4 Nothing contained in this Integrity Pact shall be deemed to assure the bidder /
Seller of any success or otherwise in the tendering process.
16. This Integrity Pact is signed with Union Bank of India exclusively and hence shall not
be treated as precedence for signing of IP with MoD or any other Organization.
17. The Parties here by sign this Integrity Pact at________________on ________________
(Seller/Bidder) and ___________on __________ (Buyer).
(*) – Authorized signatory of the company who has also signed and submitted
the main bid.
UNDERTAKING
2. We further undertake and agree to save defend and keep harmless and indemnified
the Bank against all loss, cost, damages , claim penalties expenses, legal liability
because of non compliance of KYE and of misconduct of the employee deployed by us
to the Bank.
NOTE:
To
Union Bank of India,
5th floor, Technology Centre, Union Bank of India,
Adi Shankaracharya Marg, Opp. Powai Lake,
Powai, Andheri (East),
Mumbai‐400072.
Dear Sir,
In consideration of Union Bank of India, 5th floor, Technology Centre, Adi Shankaracharya
Marg, Opp. Powai Lake, Powai, Andheri (East), Mumbai‐400072, placing an order for
Implementation of & on __________________ having registered office at
_____________________ (hereinafter called the vendor) as per the purchase contract
entered into by the vendor vide purchase contract no ____________ dated __________
(hereinafter called the said contract), we ________________( Name of the Guarantor
Bank), a 'schedule bank', issuing this guarantee through its branch at __________ presently
located at __________________________________________________________
(hereinafter called the bank), do hereby irrevocably and unconditionally guarantee the
due performance of the vendor as to the Installation, Customization, Upgradation,
Maintenance and Support of Liquidity Risk Management Module (LRM) in Oracle Financial
Services Analytical Application (OFSAA), Implementation of Profitability Module(PM) for
newly formed business rules in latest version of OFSAA, Upgradation of OFSAA to latest
version along with support of existing modules (MFTP, PM & ALM) and facility management
of two onsite support resources for OFSAA application as per the said contract entered
into by the vendor with you.
If the said vendor fails to implement or maintain the system or any part thereof as per the
contract and on or before the schedule dates mentioned therein, we _____________
(Name of the Guarantor Bank), do hereby unconditionally and irrevocably agree to pay the
amounts due and payable under this guarantee without any demur and merely on demand
in writing from you during the currency stating that the amount claimed is due by way of
failure on the part of the vendor or loss or damage caused to or suffered / or would be
caused to or suffered by you by reason of any breach by the said vendor of any of the
terms and conditions of the said contract, in part or in full. Any such demand made on us
shall be conclusive as regards the amount due and payable under this guarantee.
We ______________( Name of the Guarantor Bank), further agree that this guarantee shall
continue to be valid will you unless you certify that the vendor has fully performed all the
terms and conditions of the said contract and accordingly discharge this guarantee, or
until ______________ , whichever is earlier. Unless a claim or demand is made on us in
writing under this guarantee on or before ______________, we shall be discharged from all
our obligations under this guarantee. If you extend the schedule dates of performance
under the said contract, as per the terms of the said contract, the vendor shall get the
validity period of this guarantee extended suitably and we agree to extend the guarantee
accordingly at the request of the vendor and at our discretion, provided such request is
served on the bank on or before ______________.
Failure on part of the vendor in this respect shall be treated as a breach committed by the
vendor and accordingly the amount under this guarantee shall at once become payable on
the date of receipt of demand made by you for payment during the validity of this
guarantee or extension of the validity period.
You will have fullest liberty without affecting this guarantee to postpone for any time or
from time to time any of your rights or powers against the vendor and either to enforce or
forebear to enforce any or all of the terms and conditions of the said contract. We shall
not be released from our liability under this guarantee by the exercise of your liberty with
reference to matters aforesaid or by reason of any time being given to the vendor or any
other forbearance act or omission on your part or any indulgence by you to the vendor or
by any variation or modification of the said contract or any other act, matter or thing
whatsoever which under the law relating to sureties would but for the provisions hereof
have the effect of so releasing us from our liability hereunder.
In order to give full effect to the guarantee herein contained you shall be entitled to act
as if we are your principal debtors in respect of all your claims against the vendor hereby
guaranteed by us as aforesaid and we hereby expressly waive all our rights of surety ship
and other rights if any which are in any way inconsistent with the above or any other
provision of this guarantee.
The words the vendor, the beneficiary of this guarantees i.e. Yourself, and ourselves i.e.
__________________( Name of the Guarantor Bank), unless repugnant to the context or
otherwise shall include their assigns, successors, agents, legal representatives. This
guarantee shall not be effected by any change in the constitution of any of these parties
and will ensure for and be available to and enforceable by any absorbing or amalgamating
or reconstituted company or concern, in the event of your undergoing any such
absorption, amalgamation or reconstitution.
This guarantee shall not be revocable during its currency except with your prior consent in
I) Our liability under this bank guarantee shall not exceed Rs. ………………./- (Rupees
________________)
III) We are liable to pay the guaranteed amount or any part thereof under this bank
guarantee only if you serve upon us a written claim or demand (and which should
be received by us), on or before ____________ before 12:00 hours (Indian standard
time) where after it ceases to be in effect in all respects whether or not the
original bank guarantee is returned to us.
This guarantee deed must be returned to us upon expiration of the period of guarantee.
Signature ……………………………………
Name …………………………………………
(In Block letters)
Designation …………………………………
(Staff Code No.)……………………………..
Official address:
(Bank‘s Common Seal)
Attorney as per power of Attorney No.
Date:
WITNESS:
RFP for Bank‘s Request for Proposal for Installation, Customization, Upgradation,
Maintenance and Support of Liquidity Risk Management Module (LRM) in Oracle Financial
Services Analytical Application (OFSAA), Up-gradation of OFSAA to latest version along
with support of existing modules (MFTP, PM & ALM) and facility management of two
onsite support resources for OFSAA application.
The objective of adopting this evaluation methodology is to facilitate the selection of the
eligible Bidders who propose the best business-technology solution integration which is
also a cost-effective solution over a period of the contract. The commercial evaluation
would be based on the Total Cost of Ownership/Tender (TCO) that appropriately meets
the business requirements of the Bank. The bid would be first evaluated for the eligibility
criteria, then for technical soundness and then for the commercials. All bids shall be
evaluated at the sole discretion and determination of the Bank.
The decision of the Bank would be final and binding on all the Bidders to the
outcome of the eligibility bid evaluation. The Bank may accept or reject an
offer without assigning any reason what so ever. The technical and
commercial bid documents and bank guarantee of non-eligible/qualified
Bidder(s) at Phase 1 will be returned to such Bidders. The Bank will send a
letter to such Bidders to collect these documents within the specified period.
Note:
i. Bank, for the purposes of this annexure, means a scheduled commercial bank in India
having at least 500 branches as on date of the RFP.
ii. All the above mentioned Eligibility criteria have to be met by the Principal bidder
only.
This evaluation will be carried out on a total score of 100 on the basis of the
following evaluation parameters defined in this section.
The evaluation methodology is further broken down into sub areas as under.
# Proposal Bid Evaluation Sub Scores
1 Credentials 30
2 Manpower Resources 20
3 Product Demo 20
4 Presentation 20
5 Site Visits 10
Maximum Technical Proposal Bid Evaluation
100
Score
60.2.1 Credentials
Each Bidder having credentials as stated in the Technical Bid Evaluation Criteria
will get marks as stated below:-
Number of relevant credentials of OFSAA ALM solution
# implemented successfully or under implementation in Marks
a Bank in India
Note:
i. Bank, for the above purpose, means a scheduled commercial bank in India having at
least 500 branches as on date of the RFP
ii. Bidder has to provide the
a. Experience certificate from the relevant customer as per the format specified or
b. Purchase Orders issued by the customer for undertaking the implementation
iii. The OFSAA experience of bidder for the projects executed as subcontract will be
scored, provided that the Bidder provides subcontracted PO to the Bank as a proof.
iv. If the bidder subcontracted the application implementation project to any other
vendor, both subcontracted vendor and bidder will be scored on credential.
v. If a bidder is one of the consortium members of implementation projects eligible for
credential, then bidder will be scored on credential
vi. Proposed application implementation experience should be in OFSAA 6.x version and
above
vii. Implementation experience in India only will be considered for the scoring as per
this Annexure
viii. Under implementation marks will be awarded in case of no live projects only.
60.2.4 Presentation
The Bank will require the Bidders to make presentations regarding the
approach and methodology of implementation of the proposed
solutions. This process will also enable the Bank to clarify issues that
may be identified from the Bidders‘ responses to the RFP. The
Evaluation Committee decided by the Bank would be scoring the
presentation made by the Bidders at Bank‘s premises based on a
structured questionnaire broadly across the following.
The committee will carry out the site visit to one bank to understand
the capabilities of the Bidder in accordance with the scope of this RFP.
Bidder has to obtain necessary permissions and appointment in this
regard.
The Commercial Bid will be evaluated based on the Total Cost of Services as
enumerated in the scope of work in this RFP excluding taxes. Based on the
same, Ranking of the Bidders will be determined.
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Bidder(s) who do not qualify in the technical bid processes will not be
considered for participation in Reverse Auction. For participating in reverse
auction digital signature is a pre-requisite.
RFP for Bank‘s ―Request for Proposal For Supply, Installation, Customization, Up-gradation
Maintenance and Support of Liquidity Risk Management Module (LRM) in Oracle Financial
Services Analytical Application (OFSAA), Implementation of Profitability Module (PM) for
newly formed business rules in latest version of OFSAA, Up-gradation of OFSAA to latest
version along with support of existing modules (MFTP, PM & ALM) and facility management
of two onsite support resources for OFSAA application.
The detailed procedure for Reverse Auction to be followed in the Request for Proposal For
―Supply, Installation, Configuration, Customization, Up-gradation Maintenance and Support
of Liquidity risk management module (LRM) in Oracle Financial Services Analytical
Application (OFSAA), implementation of Profitability module for newly formed business
rules in latest version of OFSAA (PM Module), Up-gradation of OFSAA to latest version along
with support and customization of existing modules (FTP,PM & ALM) and facility
management of two onsite support resources for OFSAA‖ Project is given below:
The response to the present tender will be submitted by way of submitting the Technical
offer & Indicative Commercial offers through online. The technical details with the
relevant information /documents/acceptance of all terms and conditions strictly as
described in this tender document will have to be submitted by the Bidders. The Indicative
commercial bids submitted by the Bidders who are short listed in the technical bid
evaluation process will be opened and those Bidders will be invited to participate in the
online Reverse Auction to be conducted by the company selected by the Bank. Bidders who
are short listed from Technical evaluation will be trained by the Reverse Auction Company
for this purpose, and they will have to abide by the E-business rules framed by the Bank in
consultation with Reverse Auction Service provider. The e-business rules are furnished
hereunder in this document.
Further, please note that the Bidder(s) who do not qualify in the technical bid processes
will not be considered for participation in Reverse Auction. For participating in reverse
auction digital signature is a pre-requisite.
1. APPLICABILITY
1.1. Reverse Auctions are carried out under the framework of rules that are called
Business Rules.
1.2. All bidders participating in Reverse Auction shall understand/accept and give an
undertaking for compliance with the same to the Bank in the prescribed format
Exhibit-A.
1.3. Any bidder not willing to submit such an undertaking shall be disqualified for further
participation respecting the procurement in question.
2. ELIGIBILITY:
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2.1. Only bidders who have submitted Integrity pact (IP) signed by authorized signatory,
technically qualified and who submit the prescribed undertaking to the Bank alone
can participate in Reverse Auction relevant to the procurement for which RFP is
floated.
4. TRAINING
4.1. The Bank will facilitate training for participation in Reverse Auction either on its
own or through the service provider for the Reverse Auction.
4.2. Where necessary, the Bank/service provider may also conduct a ‗mock reverse
auction‘ to familiarize the bidders with Reverse Auction process.
4.3. Any bidder/bidder not participating in training and/or ‗mock reverse auction‘ shall
do so at his own risk and it shall not be open for him to make any
complaint/grievance later.
5.1. TCO refers to the aggregate amount payable by the Bank for transfer of ownership.
5.3. TCO, however, shall not include variables of GST. These shall be paid as per actual
and on production of receipts. However, no penalties respecting GST shall be paid
by the Bank and the bidder shall bear such expenses.
7.1. The Date and Time of commencement of Reverse Auction as also Duration of
‗Reverse
Auction Time‘ shall be communicated at least 3 working Days prior to such auction
Date.
7.2. Any force majeure or other condition leading to postponement of auction shall
entitle the Bank to postponement of auction even after communication, but, the
Bank shall be obliged to communicate to all participating bidders the
‗postponement‘ prior to commencement of such ‗Reverse Auction‘.
8.1. The Reverse Auction shall be conducted on a specific web portal meant for this
purpose.
8.2. The Reverse Auction may be conducted by the Bank itself or through a service
provider specifically identified/appointed/empanelled by the Bank.
9.1. In all Reverse Auctions conducted by the Bank through a Service Provider, the Bank
shall enter into a separate agreement clearly detailing the role and responsibilities
of the service provider hosting the web portal for the Reverse Auction.
9.2. For creating necessary obligations and rights, the service provider will also enter
into an agreement with each bidder as per a format designed by him for this
purpose. The Bank shall resolve any points/issues concerning such agreement of
bidder and service provider.
9.3. While a Service Level Agreement (SLA) by the bank with the service provider is an
arrangement for smooth and fair conduct of the Reverse Auction, the Bank shall be
directly responsible to bidders for fair and transparent conduct of Reverse Auction.
9.4. The service provider at the end of each Reverse Auction shall provide the bank with
all details of the bids and reports of reverse auction.
9.5. The service provider shall also archive the data pertaining to the Reverse Auction for
a minimum period of 3 years.
10. TRAINING AND AUCTION
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10.1. Service provider / auctioneer are responsible for conduct of adequate training to all
technically qualified bidders representing the reverse auction and bidding process.
10.2. Each bidder / bidder shall participate in the training at his / their own cost.
10.3. Wherever it is considered necessary and asked by the bidders or as decided by the
auctioneer or by Bank a mock auction may also be conducted for the benefit of all
concerned.
10.4. Authorized representatives of the bidders named in the authorization letter given by
the bidder (Exhibit-B) shall be given unique user name, password by the service
provider / auctioneer.
10.5. Each bidder shall change the password and edit the information in the registration
page after receipt of initial password.
10.6. All the bids made from the login ID given to bidder shall ipso-facto be considered bid
made by the bidder / bidder to whom login ID and password were assigned by the
service provider / auctioneer.
10.7. Any bid once made through registered login ID / password by the bidder / bidder
cannot be cancelled. The bidder, in other words, is bound to sell the ―Offering‖ as
per the RFP at the bid price of TCO.
10.8. Every successive bid by the bidder / bidder being decremented bidding shall replace
the earlier bid automatically and the final bid as per the time and log-in ID shall
prevail over the earlier bids.
10.9. The Bank shall conduct the reverse auction as per the Standard English reverse
auction, that is, no two bids can have identical price from two different bidders. In
other words, there shall never be a ―Tie‖ in bids.
11.1. A proxy bid is one where bidder can submit the lowest bid amount by him in strict
confidence to the system directly. This obviates the need for him participating in
the bidding process until the proxy bid amount is decrementally reached by other
bidders.
11.2. When proxy bid amount is reached, the bidder has an option to revise the proxy bid
amount or he can prefer to start participating in bidding process.
11.3. Since it is an English auction with no ties, two bidders submitting identical proxy bid
amount and succeeding in auction simultaneously does not arise.
11.4. During training, the issue of proxy bidding will be clarified in detail by the service
provider.
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13.1. Names of bidders/ bidders shall be anonymously masked in the Reverse Auction
process and bidders will be given suitable dummy names.
13.2. After completion of Reverse Auction, the service provider / auctioneer shall submit
a report to the Bank with all details of bid and the original names of the bidders as
also the L1 bidder with his / their original names.
14.1. Bank shall determine the start price either on its own or through asking for
information of price band on TCO from each bidder at appropriate time during or at
the conclusion of technical evaluation. Based on the price band so informed by
bidders, Bank would determine the start price for reverse auction.
15.1. The bidders shall be able to bid only at a specified decrement value and not at any
other fractions. The Bid decrement value shall be Rs. 7500/- or 0.25% of the Start
price of the Reverse Auction, whichever is higher.
15.2. The bid decrement value shall be rounded off to the nearest thousands of rupees.
15.3. For the sake of convenience of bidders, the web portal shall display the next
possible decremented value of bid. It is not, however, obligatory on the part of
bidders to bid at the next immediate lower level only. (That is, bids can be even at
2 or 3 lower levels than the immediate lower level. and should not exceed 2% of the
bid value).
16.1. The Bank shall supply copy of the Business rules to any bidders / bidders, wishing to
participate in the reverse auction. Such request shall be made in writing to the
Bank by an authorized representative of the bidder.
16.2. The Bank shall also handover a copy of the Business Rules with a covering letter duly
signed by an authorized signatory of the Bank.
16.3. For any dispute concerning the Business Rules, the hard copy of Business Rules
supplied by the Bank for the reference of reverse auction process will alone be
considered final and bidding.
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17.1. If any RFP specifically authorizes splitting of orders for the sake of reducing
dependency on single source of supply or provision of service, Bank is entitled to
split the order in the order and as provided in RFP.
17.2. While splitting the order, Bank shall specify the maximum quantum for L1, L2 etc. in
RFP.
17.3. In case L2 bidder is not willing to supply at L1 price, Bank shall call L3, L4 etc. in
order to arrive at the split quantum to be awarded.
17.4. The Bank shall also be entitled to award the contract to L2, L3 or L4 etc. bidders in
the event of L1 bidder backing out to honor the commitment, or for that matter not
in a position to supply the offering as per RFP.
18.1. In order to reduce the time involved in the procurement process, Bank shall be
entitled to complete the entire procurement process through a single Reverse
Auction. For this purpose, Bank shall do all it can to award the contract to L1
bidder or in the circumstances where awarding of contract may have to be done to
the L2, L3 bidder as provided for in the RFP.
18.2. The Bank shall however, be entitled to cancel the procurement of Reverse Auction ,
if in its view procurement or reverse auction process cannot be conducted in a fair
manner and / or in the interest of the Bank.
18.3. The successful bidder shall be obliged to provide a Bill of Material at the last bid
price at the close of auction.
19. EXPENDITURE ON REVERSE AUCTION
21.1. No bidder shall involve himself / itself or any of his / its representatives in any price
manipulation directly or indirectly with other bidders. If any such practice comes to
the notice, Bank shall disqualify the bidder / bidders concerned from the reverse
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auction process.
21.2. Bidder shall not disclose details of his bids or any other details concerning Reverse
Auction process of the Bank to any other third party without specific permission in
writing from the Bank.
21.3. Neither Bank nor service provider / auctioneer can be held responsible for
consequential damages such as no power supply, system problem, inability to use
the system, loss of electronic information, power interruptions, UPS failure, etc.
(Bank shall, however, entertain any such issues of interruptions, problems with open
mind and fair degree of transparency in the process before deciding to stop or
extend the auction.)
22.1. Any aggrieved bidder / bidder through Reverse Auction process can make complaint
in writing within 48 hours of the Reverse Auction to the Chief Compliance Officer of
the Bank.
22.2. The Chief Compliance Officer along with the Chief Law Officer of the bank and Chief
of Audit Dept. shall give personal hearing to the aggrieved bidder / bidder and
decide upon the complaint / grievance.
22.3. Decision of the Grievance Redressal Committee shall be binding on the Bank as well
as on all bidders participating in the Reverse Auction.
22.4. Any bidder can also make complain in writing to our IEMs within 48 hours of the
reverse auction.
23.1. On any issue or area of material concern respecting Reverse Auction not specifically
dealt with in these Business Rules, the decision of the bank shall be final and binding
on all concerned.
Place:
Date:
Signature:
Name & Designation:
Business Address:
Exhibit -A
To,
Union Bank of India
Department of Information Technology
Powai, Mumbai
DECLARATION
Date: ________________
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Exhibit –B
To,
Union Bank of India
Department of Information Technology
Powai, Mumbai
2 We also confirm having read and understood the terms of RFP as well as the
Business Rules relating to the Reverse Auction for this RFP process.
3 As per the terms of RFP and Business rules, we nominate Mr. ______________,
designated as ______________ of our company to participate in the Reverse
Auction.
4 We accordingly authorize Bank and / or the Auction Company to issue user ID and
password to the above named official of the company.
5 Both Bank and the auction company shall contact the above named official for
any and all matters relating to the Reverse Auction.
6 We, hereby confirm that we will honor the Bids placed by Mr. __________ on
behalf Of the company in the auction process, failing which we will forfeit the
EMD. We agree and understand that the bank may debar us from participating in
future tenders for any such failure on our part.
Place:
Date:
To,
Sir,
Subject: Agreement to the process related Terms and Conditions for the online Reverse
Auction for Request for Proposal (RFP) For Upgradation, Migration, Customization of
Oracle Financial Services Analytical Applications (OFSAA) Modules - MFTP, ALM & PM
and Implementation, Maintenance of Liquidity Risk Management System (LRM) module
Date:
To,
The General Manager,
Department of Information Technology,
Union Bank of India,
1/1A , Adi Sankaracharya Marg,
Opp, Powai Lake, Powai.
Andheri East , Mumbai - 400072
Dear Sirs,
In response to your invitation For for Upgradation, Migration, Customization of Oracle
Financial Services Analytical Applications (OFSAA) Modules - MFTP, ALM & PM and
Implementation, Maintenance of Liquidity Risk Management System (LRM) module, M/s
__________________ having their registered office at _____________ (hereinafter called
the Bidder) wish to respond to the said Request for Proposal (RFP) and submit the proposal
for the same. Whereas the Bidder has submitted the proposal in response to RFP, we, the
____________ Bank having our head office ________________ hereby irrevocably guarantee
an amount of Rs. ………./‐ (Rupees ……… only) as Bid security as required to be submitted by
the Consultant as a condition for participation in the said process of RFP.
The Bid security for which this guarantee is given is liable to be enforced/ invoked:
1) If the Bidder withdraws his proposal during the period of the proposal validity; or
2) If the Bidder, having been notified of the acceptance of its proposal by the Bank during
the period of the validity of the proposal fails or refuses to enter into the contract in
accordance with the terms and conditions of the RFP or the terms and conditions mutually
agreed subsequently.
3) If the Bidder, if selected for awarding the Contract, fails to renew this Bank Guarantee
as decided by Union Bank of India. We undertake to pay immediately on demand to Union
Bank of India, the said amount of Rs. …………..‐ (Rupees ……….. only) without any
reservation, protest, demur, or recourse. The said guarantee is liable to be invoked/
enforced on the happening of the contingencies as mentioned above and also in the RFP
document and we shall pay the amount on any demand made by Union Bank of India which
shall be conclusive and binding on us irrespective of any dispute or difference raised by the
Bidder. Notwithstanding anything contained herein:
1) Our liability under this Bank guarantee shall not exceed Rs. ………./‐ (Rupees ……… only).
2) This Bank guarantee will be valid up to 180 days and
3) We are liable to pay the guaranteed amount or any part thereof under this Bank
guarantee only upon service of a written claim or demand by you on or before
________________.
In witness whereof the Bank, through the authorized officer has sets its hand and stamp on
this _______________ day of __________________ at ______________.
Signature ……………………………………
Name …………………………………………
(In Block letters)
Designation …………………………………
(Staff Code No.)……………………………..
Official address:
(Bank‘s Common Seal)
Attorney as per power of Attorney No.
Date:
WITNESS:
AND
Union Bank of India, a corresponding new bank constituted under section 3 of Banking
Companies (Acquisition & Transfer of Undertakings) Act 1970 having its Head office at
Union Bank Bhavan, Vidhan Bhavan Marg, Nariman Point, Mumbai – 400021 (hereinafter
referred to as ―Union Bank‖ or ―Bank‖ which expression shall, unless it be repugnant to the
context or meaning thereof, mean and include its successors and permitted assigns), of the
OTHER PART:
---------- and the Bank shall hereinafter jointly be referred to as ―Parties‖ and individually
as a ―Party‖.
In this Agreement, ―Affiliate‖ means any entity which from time to time Controls, is
Controlled by or is under common Control with the relevant party or entity, where
―Control‖ means having the ability (including, without limitation, by means of a majority
of voting rights or the right to appoint or remove a majority of the board of directors) to
control the management and policies of an entity.
WHEREAS:-
1. Interpretation
2. Confidentiality:
2.1 Except to the extent as agreed herein, the Receiving Party agrees to regard, preserve
and keep as secret and confidential all Confidential Information of the Disclosing Party or
its clients or any member of their group disclosed under this Agreement. In maintaining
confidentiality hereunder the Receiving Party agrees and accepts that it shall not, either
on its own account or jointly with or for any other person, firm, company or any other
entity, without obtaining the written consent of the disclosing party.
III. disclose, announce or otherwise publicize the existence of its association with the
Disclosing Party or the existence of the project with the Disclosing Party or any
other arrangement (existing or possible) between the disclosing party, its clients or
itself in connection with any project/assignment; or
IV. use any such Confidential Information for its own benefit or the benefit of others or
do anything prejudicial to the interests of the Disclosing Party or its clients or any
member of their group or their projects.
2.2 The Receiving Party also agrees and accepts that it may endeavor:
I. use at least the same degree of care in safeguarding such Confidential Information
as it uses for its own Confidential information of like importance and such degree of
care shall be at least that which is reasonably calculated to prevent such
inadvertent disclosure;
II. keep the Confidential Information and any copies thereof secure and in such a way
so as to prevent unauthorized access by any third party;
III. limit access to such Confidential Information to those of its (including its Affiliates‟)
directors, partners, advisers, agents or employees who are directly involved in the
consideration/evaluation of the Confidential Information and bind each of its
directors, partners, advisers, agents or employees so involved to protect the
Confidential Information in the manner prescribed in this Agreement; and
IV. upon discovery of any disclosure or suspected disclosure of Confidential Information,
to take reasonable effort to as per the circumstances, to inform the Disclosing Party
of such disclosure in writing and immediately return to the Disclosing Party all such
Information, in whatsoever form, including any and all copies thereof.
3. Return or destruction:
The Receiving Party may, upon completion of the purpose mentioned aforesaid or at
any time on receipt of a written demand from the disclosing party: i) immediately
return all written Confidential Information and all copies thereof provided to, or
produced by, it or its advisers, as the case may be, which is in such party‘s possession
or under its custody and control; ii) to the extent practicable, but without prejudice to
the obligations of confidentiality herein, immediately destroy all analyses,
compilations, notes, studies, memoranda or other documents prepared by it or its
advisers to the extent that the same contain, reflect or derive from Confidential
Information relating to the other party; iii) so far as it is practicable to do so (but, in
any event, without prejudice to the obligations of confidentiality contained in this
Agreement), immediately expunge any Confidential Information relating to the
Disclosing Party or its clients or any member of their group or their projects from any
computer, word processor or other device in its possession or under its custody and
control.
4. Permitted disclosure:
The provisions of paragraph 2 shall not restrict any disclosure required by law or by any
court of competent jurisdiction, the rules and regulations of any recognized stock
exchange or any enquiry or investigation by any governmental, official or regulatory
body which is lawfully entitled to require any such disclosure provided that, so far as it
is lawful and practical to do so prior to such disclosure, the Receiving Party shall
promptly notify the other party of such requirement with a view to providing the
opportunity for the Provider to contest such disclosure or otherwise to agree the timing
and content of such disclosure.
5. Ownership of Information:
Except to the extent as agreed herein, the Confidential Information and copies thereof,
in whatsoever form shall at all times remain the property of the Disclosing Party or its
clients and its disclosure shall not confer on the Receiving Party any rights (including
any intellectual property rights) over the Confidential Information whatsoever beyond
those contained in this Agreement.
6. No Representation:
The parties hereto acknowledge that remedies at law may be inadequate to protect the
Disclosing Party or its clients against any actual breach of this Agreement by the
Receiving Party, and, without prejudice to any other right and remedies otherwise
available to the Disclosing Party or its clients, the Receiving Party agrees that Disclosing
Party has a right to seek injunctive relief in its favor upon proof of actual damage and
upon establishment of the fact that such actual damage has taken place due to reasons
directly attributable upon the Receiving Party. Such injunctive relief shall be in
addition to any other remedies available hereunder, whether at law or equity.
Disclosing Party shall be entitled to recover its cost and fees, including Advocate‘s fees,
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incurred in obtaining any such relief. Further, in the event of litigation relating to this
Agreement, the prevailing party shall be entitled to recover its cost and expenses
including Advocate‘s fees.
8. No Assignment
This Agreement shall not be assigned by the successful bidder, by operation of law or
otherwise, without the prior written consent of Bank. This Agreement shall inure to the
benefit of and will be binding upon the parties‟ respective successors and permitted
assigns.
9. Severability
In the event that any of the provisions contained in this Agreement is found to be
invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any respect by a Court of competent jurisdiction,
the validity, legality, or enforceability of the remaining provisions contained in this
agreement will not be in any way affected or impaired by such a finding.
10.Delay or Waiver
No delay or failure of either Party in exercising any right hereunder and no partial or
single exercise thereof shall be deemed of itself to constitute a waiver or an
expectation of non-enforcement of such right or any other rights hereunder. No waiver
of any provision of this Agreement shall be valid unless the same is in writing and signed
by the party against whom such waiver is sought to be enforced. A waiver or consent
given by either party on any one occasion is effective only in that instance and will not
be construed as a bar to or waiver of any right on any other occasion.
11.Notices
Notices as required by this Agreement shall be sent to the Parties at the addresses
mentioned first herein above or such other addresses as the Parties may designate from
time to time, and shall be sent by certified or registered mail with acknowledgement
due on receipt.
12.Term
This Agreement shall commence from the Effective Date of this Agreement and shall be
valid for 6 months beyond contract period. Confidentiality obligations under this
Agreement shall continue to be binding and applicable without limit in point in time
except and until such information enters the public domain, without breach of the
agreement. Either Party may terminate this Agreement for breach, if the defaulting
Party fails to rectify the breach within the one month notice period issued by the non-
defaulting Party. Upon expiration or termination as contemplated herein the Receiving
Party shall immediately cease any and all disclosures or uses of Confidential
Information; and at the request of Disclosing Party, the Receiving Party shall promptly
return or destroy all written, graphic or other tangible forms of the Confidential
Information and all copies, abstracts, extracts, samples, notes or modules thereof.
13.Governing Law
The provisions of this Agreement shall be governed by the laws of India and shall be
subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of courts in Mumbai.
14.Indemnity
The Receiving Party agree to indemnify and hold harmless the Disclosures against all
costs, liability, losses and claims incurred by the Disclosing Party as a result of a breach
of this Agreement.
15.Modification
Modification to any of the provisions of this Agreement shall be void unless it is writing
and duly executed by Parties.
16.Headings
The headings given herein above are for ease of reference only and shall not attach or
have any effect/ meaning whatsoever contrary to what is stated in the agreement.
17.Set off
Without prejudice to other rights and remedies available to the bank, bank shall be
entitled to set off or adjust any amounts due to the bank from successful bidder/OEM
against any payments due and payable by bank for the services rendered.
Bank shall have the right of periodical /yearly review of the performance of the
successful bidder with regard to upgradation of processors, memory and storage
space and maintenance support under the contract which would be basis of
continuation or termination of the same. Bank shall also have the right to review,
either itself or through another agency as it may deem fit, the financial and
operating performance of the bidder in order to assess the ability of the bidder to
continue to meet its outsourcing/contractual obligations.
19.Proprietary Rights:
The entire work product mentioned in this RFP shall be the sole and exclusive property
of the Bank. The successful bidder hereby-irrevocably grants, assigns, transfers to the
Bank all rights, title and interest of any kind, in and to the work product produced
under RFP contract. All information processed, stored, or transmitted by successful
Bidder belongs to the Bank. The Bidder does not acquire implicit access rights to the
information or rights to redistribute the information. The Bidder understands that civil,
criminal, or administrative penalties may apply for failure to protect information
appropriately. Any information considered sensitive by the bank must be protected by
the successful Bidder from unauthorized disclosure, modification or access. The bank‘s
decision will be final.
The successful bidder will ensure strict compliance of all labour laws, insurance,
minimum wages to the staff employed /deployed /engaged for the work assigned and
the Bank will not be liable for any such persons/personnel of successful bidder and
shall not be liable for any levies / penalties etc. that may be imposed by the
authorities concerned for their action/inaction. There shall be no employer employee
relationship whatsoever between the bank and the successful bidder /their employees
and the bidder or his employees, staff, agents will not be entitled to any employment
with Bank. In the event of any demand/fines/penalty made by any of the authorities
on bank in respect of the conduct/actions taken by the bidder/their
employees/labourers, the Bank will be entitled to recover the said amounts from the
bills / amount payable or from the performance guarantee and also take appropriate
action against said persons of bidder/bidder for their misconduct, if any.
20.Counterparts
This Agreement has been signed in duplicate, each of which shall be deemed to be an
original. The exchange of a fully executed Agreement (in counterparts or otherwise) by
fax shall be sufficient to bind the parties to the terms and conditions of this
Agreement.
………………………………………… …………………………………………
Queries will not be accepted in any other format other than Microsoft Excel.
Place:
Date:
Signature:
Name & Designation:
Business Address:
Place:
Date:
To:
The General Manager,
Union Bank of India,
5th floor, Technology Centre,
1/1A, Adi Shankaracharya Marg, Opp. Powai Lake,
Powai, Andheri (East),
Mumbai‐400072.
We also undertake that, we are not involved in any legal case that may affect the
solvency / existence of our firm or in any other way that may affect capability to
provide / continue the services to bank.
We also undertake that, we are neither the member nor the immediate family
member of board of the directors of the Bank.
Yours faithfully,
Authorized Signatories
Date
(This letter should be on the letterhead of the bidder as well as the OEM/
Manufacturer duly signed by an authorized signatory on Information security as per
regulatory requirement)
Place:
Date:
To:
The General Manager,
Union Bank of India,
5th floor, Technology Centre,
1/1A, Adi Shankaracharya Marg, Opp. Powai Lake,
Powai, Andheri (East),
Mumbai‐400072.
Sir,
We hereby undertake that the proposed solution / software to be supplied will be free of
malware, free of any obvious bugs and free of any covert channels in the code (of the
version of the application being delivered as well as any subsequent versions/modifications
done)
Yours faithfully,
Authorized Signatory
Name:
Designation:
Vendor‘s Corporate Name
Address
Email and Phone #
Date:
The General Manager,
Union Bank of India,
Technology Centre,
1/1A, Adi Shankaracharya Marg, Opp. Powai Lake,
Powai, Andheri (East),
Mumbai‐400072.
Kindly refund the EMD submitted for participation. Details of EMD submitted are as follows
Bank details to which the money needs to be credited via NEFT are as follows
Sign
Name of the signatory
Designation
Company Seal