Publication and pre-bid
Published 02-09-2026. The pre-bid meeting was scheduled for 07-09-2026 at 12:00 at Cyber Crime Headquarters, Lucknow; the RFP corrigendum refused to extend the written-query date.
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Establishment of Cyber Investigation and Digital Assistance Labs (CIDAL) on a Turnkey basis 2.0
Uttar Pradesh Police · Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh9836856
Written by TenderKart AI from the documents published when it was generated. Check the tender for later corrigenda before you bid.
2 Sept 2026
23 Sept 2026
₹1 Cr
All important dates as they stand after corrigenda: publication, pre-bid/clarification deadline, bid submission deadline, bid opening, and bid validity period.
Published 02-09-2026. The pre-bid meeting was scheduled for 07-09-2026 at 12:00 at Cyber Crime Headquarters, Lucknow; the RFP corrigendum refused to extend the written-query date.
After the portal-only date extensions, the latest GeM schedule is bid submission by 22-09-2026 19:00 and bid opening on 23-09-2026 19:00. This supersedes the original 12-09-2026 19:00 / 12-09-2026 19:30 schedule.
Bid offer validity is 180 days from the final bid end date; EMD must remain valid a further 45 days.
Tender value or estimated cost, EMD/bid security (amount, acceptable forms, validity), tender document fees, performance security, and key payment terms.
The supplied tender documents do not state a standalone tender value or tender-document fee. The published bidder-turnover threshold is INR 5,000 lakh and equals 50% of estimated bid cost, implying the RFP published-figure basis is INR 10,000 lakh; bidders should price only against the published item schedule.
EMD is INR 10,000,000, in favour of the stated beneficiary/SP Cyber Crime UP and payable at Lucknow. Acceptable GeM forms include insurance surety bond, account-payee DD, FDR, banker’s cheque, commercial-bank BG/e-BG or acceptable online payment. It must remain valid 45 days beyond the 180-day bid validity.
Performance security is 5% of contract value. Format Q-9 validity runs 60 days after operations close (29-04-2030 on the assumed schedule), with claim date 29-04-2031. Additionally, before each M2 phase payment, furnish an unconditional delivery-stage BG equal to 50% of that phase’s attributable contract value, valid to final commissioning; claim period extends 12 months.
No mobilisation advance. M2 pays 90% of each phase’s attributable value on phase-completion certification, less any training withholding and against the delivery-stage BG; the final 10% is released at final commissioning of all 76 units. Recurring services are monthly in arrears and the initial training programme is billed in five equal monthly instalments (months 2–6). Complete invoices are payable within 30 days; deficiencies must be notified within 7 working days.
Every pass/fail eligibility and qualification requirement: experience and past performance, turnover/net worth, registrations and certifications, consortium/JV rules, and debarment or blacklisting conditions.
Average annual turnover over the relevant three years must be INR 5,000 lakh / at least 50% of estimated bid cost, with no MSE/start-up/local-supplier relaxation. Net worth must be positive in the most recent audited financial year; for a consortium, each member meets net worth itself and the lead member meets at least 50% of every pooled turnover threshold.
GeM requires 3 years’ same/similar supply experience and past performance equal to 80% of bid quantity in at least one of the last three financial years for Central/State Government/PSU buyers. The RFP’s integrated-scope experience uses a seven-year look-back: full certified value in the latest three years and 75% in years 4–7; hardware-only, software-only or manpower-only work does not count. Qualifying subcontract experience is allowed only where the bidder performed the whole integrated scope relied on and supplies prescribed prime-order/end-user evidence.
Consortium bidding is permitted through a registered consortium agreement. Every member, including the lead, accepts joint and several liability for the whole contract. Approved subcontracting is capped at 30%; it needs prior written approval and Format Q-15 before work, while the System Integrator retains full responsibility.
Name a principal for every offered item. Format Q-7 principal authorisation is mandatory for each authorisation-required item/constituent; Format Q-11 is mandatory for every software item, including embedded software, and must be unqualified, state licence model/term, cover LC obligations and include the five-year post-term ceiling price list. A missing mandatory-item undertaking makes the bid non-responsive.
The bidder must not be debarred under GFR Rule 151. A bidder from a country sharing a land border with India is eligible only if registered with the Competent Authority; false declaration/non-compliance permits immediate termination and legal action. The corrigendum confirms no Bill-of-Materials category is restricted by local-supplier class, but Format Q-6 local-content declaration remains compulsory.
What is being procured: the work, supplies or services, deliverables and quantities, locations, phases, completion or delivery timelines, applicable standards, and notable exclusions.
Appointment of one System Integrator with end-to-end responsibility to establish the complete CIDAL capability as one integrated package, including hardware, software/licences, implementation, training, specialist manpower, operations, maintenance, support, spares/consumables, audit and exit/data-continuity deliverables.
76 units statewide: Headquarters (1), Phase 2 eastern Uttar Pradesh covering 3 Commissionerates and 34 Districts (37 units), and Phase 3 western Uttar Pradesh covering 4 Commissionerates and 34 Districts (38 units). Headquarters includes a 30-position training laboratory and a 20-post specialist cadre.
Assumed contract effective date 01-11-2026. Training laboratory accepted month 1; Phase 1 go-live 31-12-2026, Phase 2 31-01-2027, Phase 3/fixed delivery backstop 28-02-2027. Commissioning is separate and finishes across all 76 units at month 7 (31-05-2027); operations close at month 40 (28-02-2030). A later effective date compresses the four-month delivery window rather than moving the backstop.
Each software licence must provide at least three years of updates/support from phase go-live and cannot end before programme month 40. Perpetual, term and subscription licences are allowed; before expiry, Department data/records/outputs must be converted at SI cost into open documented formats usable independently of the supplied product.
The complete checklist of documents to submit — mandatory vs conditional, with any prescribed formats, proformas or annexures — plus how to submit: portal and mode, envelope/cover structure, digital signature requirements, signing and attestation rules, and physical originals with their deadline.
Submit electronically on GeM as a Two Packet Bid. Technical/prequalification material and the financial/price bid must remain in their respective online packets; price bids open only after technical/PoC qualification. GeM e-sign is legally equivalent to digital signature.
Required declarations/letters/undertakings must contain every prescribed substantive statement and be signed by a person competent to bind the issuing entity. Layout deviations are curable, but Q-9/Q-10 guarantee terms may not be omitted or qualified. Technical clarifications are due within two days as computed under amended Chapter 16.
Upload a scanned EMD with the online bid and deliver the hard-copy original directly to the buyer within 5 working days of bid opening at Cyber Crime Police Headquarters, Signature Building, Tower-4, 5th Floor, Gomti Nagar Extension, Lucknow–226002. The ATC warns that other bid documents cannot be required physically as a prequalification condition.
Every corrigendum/addendum in order — what changed (original vs amended value), its impact, and the action for the bidder — ending with the values that finally apply.
The original closing/opening schedule of 12-09-2026 19:00 / 19:30 was subsequently extended through the portal-only date corrigenda, ending at 22-09-2026 19:00 for submission and 23-09-2026 19:00 for opening under Corrigendum 4594767. Bid validity remains 180 days from the final end date.
Representation notices were issued on 09-09-2026 and 16-09-2026, but their response files are absent from the supplied folder. The substantive corrigendum expressly says the consolidated response to representations is published separately and is not part of it.
On 10-09-2026, C3 replaced all earlier buyer-added bid-specific ATCs: retained the ±25% option clause, required one turnkey System Integrator and one integrated whole-scope quote, and attached the revised RFP.
Later on 10-09-2026, C4 again superseded buyer-added ATCs and attached 135 operative amendments. Major changes: five waves/16 months became three phases/four months; final commissioning was separated to month 7; all 20 specialist posts mobilise at Phase 1; payment became 90% phase completion + 10% final commissioning; principal-turnover PQ-22/Q-12 was deleted; years 4–7 experience counts 75%; perpetual-only licensing was replaced by perpetual/term/subscription with month-40 floor and open-format conversion; clarification response reduced to two days; LD and guarantees were re-based phase-wise.
Final bid close/open: 22/23 September 2026 at 19:00; 180-day offer validity. Scope: one integrated bid for 76 units, delivery backstop 28-02-2027, final commissioning 31-05-2027, operations to 28-02-2030. EMD INR 1 crore; performance security 5%; turnover INR 50 crore / 50% estimated cost; no principal-turnover test; M2/M5 payment split 90%/10%.
Genuine conflicts within and across the documents (original vs corrigenda, clause vs annexure, tender document vs BOQ): both sides with citations, and which value prevails.
The bid PDF prints 12-09-2026 closing and 12-09-2026 19:30 opening, while later portal date corrigenda move them to 22-09-2026 19:00 and 23-09-2026 19:00. The latest portal corrigendum prevails.
The GeM bid sheet says payment within 45 days of CRAC/bill, but the later specific RFP amendment makes a complete certified invoice payable within 30 days and deems it complete unless deficiencies are stated in 7 working days. The later specific amendment prevails.
The GeM line-item schedule carries a 1,460-day delivery period, whereas the amended RFP mandates delivery/installation in four months, commissioning by month 7 and operations through month 40. Read the 1,460 days as the overall contract/operations envelope, not the equipment delivery deadline; the detailed amended RFP milestones prevail.
The original RFP required every item to operate perpetually after support at no further cost. Corrigendum No. 1 permits perpetual, term or subscription licences, provided no term ends before month 40 and data is converted into independent open formats. The corrigendum prevails.
The GeM bid sheet says MII Purchase Preference “No”, but the corrigendum says that portal entry does not displace the RFP: Q-6 remains mandatory and purchase preference applies under the Order. The corrigendum/RFP governs.
Only critical, tender-specific pre-bid queries that could materially change bid/no-bid, pricing, eligibility or contractual risk. Skip generic or obvious questions the documents already answer clearly.
Request immediate publication/provision of the separate consolidated representation response and the 16-09-2026 representation reply. These may contain binding interpretations not present in the supplied folder.
Ask the buyer to confirm in writing the final close/open timestamps after Corrigendum 4594767 and the latest permissible proof-of-concept/demo date, including whether bidders must extend 180-day bid and EMD validity to accommodate it.
Request the re-issued “Published Figures for this Tender” schedule and confirmation that INR 5,000 lakh is exactly 50% of estimated bid cost. The actual estimated cost is not printed in the GeM bid PDF, yet it drives turnover, experience pathways, abnormal-low threshold, insurance and securities.
Confirm the actual expected contract effective date and identify all 76 ready sites. A delayed effective date compresses delivery against the fixed 28-02-2027 backstop, and the bidder must price additional deployment capacity; relief for Department-caused not-ready sites should be expressly mapped.
Clarify how award remains like-for-like where one bidder offers perpetual licences and another offers terms ending at month 40, given post-term prices are not evaluated. Ask whether renewal funding/approval is assured for operational continuity after month 40.
Commercial, legal and execution risks a bidder should weigh: liquidated damages and penalties, unusual or one-sided clauses, tight timelines, and payment or security risks.
All 76 units must be delivered/installed in three phases by 28-02-2027, with at least 12 deployment teams and more capacity for each month of compression if award starts late. Commissioning, training and the 20-person cadre overlap this rollout.
LD is 0.5% per completed week on affected unit/phase attributable value, capped separately at 10% of each delayed phase value. Unit and phase limbs are not cumulative, but service credits also apply to monthly recurring services and can be deducted from invoices.
Besides 5% performance security, each 90% phase release needs a BG equal to 50% of that phase’s attributable value; another 10% remains withheld to final commissioning and up to one-tenth of M2 can be withheld for incomplete training. No mobilisation advance is available.
Term/subscription licences may cease after month 40. Post-term support/relicensing is outside evaluated price and only capped by an indicative five-year principal price list indexed to CPI-IW; continued investigative capability therefore depends on future budgets and principal availability.
On termination for convenience, no mobilisation, demobilisation, financing, overhead or anticipated profit is payable; buyer may take identified goods and assignment of non-cancellable subcontracts. Liability is uncapped for wilful misconduct, fraud, confidentiality breach, third-party IP infringement and evidence loss/compromise caused by the SI.
Buyer may vary each line by ±25%, subject to an aggregate ±25% contract-value cap, without granting any minimum quantity. Prices are all-inclusive/firm and award follows reverse auction with H1 elimination rules, creating margin pressure.
The inviting authority and relevant contacts: office, person, designation, address, phone and email — and which address receives physical submissions, if any.
Uttar Pradesh Police, Cyber Crime Head Quarter, Home Department Uttar Pradesh. HOD grievance email: [email protected]; buyer/procurement email: [email protected].
EMD beneficiary is Inspector, Cyber Crime Head Quarter, Home Department Uttar Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh Police; the bid prints the name Ram Asare Yadav.
Cyber Crime Police Headquarters, Signature Building, Tower-4, 5th Floor, Gomti Nagar Extension, Lucknow–226002. This is the EMD dispatch address and was also the pre-bid venue.