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IT giants to bid for UIDAI tender for over $208 Million
By siliconindia
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Tuesday, 22 June 2010, 14:58 IST |
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1,000 crore aiming upliftment of the world's largest citizen database with more than 1.2 billion people. As reported by Harsimran Julka for Economic Times, IT giants like IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Wipro, TCS, Accenture and Infosys are to bid for the project.
According to the government, corporations having annual revenue of over 6,000 crore and net worth of 4,000 crore are eligible for biding. Moreover, it should also have at least 4,000 technical employees with about 2,000 employees in database administration field. The bidder will be required to possess a pan-India virtual private network for providing network services. The selected managed service provider will be the integrator to all other technology companies providing a Unique ID service to Indian citizens.
All applications will have to be integrated by the managed service provider and it will also have to plan outbound logistics for delivery of the Unique ID number. Apart from looking after the budget, transition (of vendors) and security for the entire project, it will also be responsible for documentation, training and knowledge transfer for the project.
While MindTree and Intelenet are selected for application development and BPO services, the biometric provider is not yet chosen. All de-duplication and verification requests from various agencies are to be handled by the biometric solution firm.