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The tender schedule became available on 29.07.2026 at 16:00 hrs.
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Implementation of the project- Scheduling Accounting Metering and Settlement of transactions in Electricity-SAMAST in APTRANSCO
Aptransco Works · Andhra Pradesh969228
Written by TenderKart AI from the documents published when it was generated. Check the tender for later corrigenda before you bid.
29 Jul 2026
25 Sept 2026
₹103.9 Cr
₹2.1 Cr
All important dates as they stand after corrigenda: publication, pre-bid/clarification deadline, bid submission deadline, bid opening, and bid validity period.
The tender schedule became available on 29.07.2026 at 16:00 hrs.
Pre-bid meeting: 07.08.2026 at 11:30 hrs; pre-bid clarification date: 17.08.2026 at 17:30 hrs. No supplied corrigendum document changes either date.
Latest portal record after Corrigendum 2: 25.09.2026 at 17:00 hrs IST (11:30 UTC), extended from 24.08.2026 at 17:00 hrs. Corrigendum 2 has no supplied file, so its revised date cannot be cited to an amendment document.
The original PQ/technical opening was 24.08.2026 at 17:30 hrs, but no supplied Corrigendum 2 attachment states the amended opening date; the latest opening time is therefore not document-verifiable.
180 days from the last date of bid submission.
Tender value or estimated cost, EMD/bid security (amount, acceptable forms, validity), tender document fees, performance security, and key payment terms.
Latest filed ECV is Rs.63,98,49,336.67: energy-meter supply Rs.34,61,61,241.38; AMR-system supply Rs.24,24,25,821.22; erection Rs.5,12,62,274.07.
The original specification fixes bid security at Rs.2,07,88,850.00 and describes it as 2% of ECV; acceptable modes stated across the tender are BG from a Nationalized/Scheduled Bank, online NEFT/RTGS, and—under clause 5.1—FD.
10% of total contract value as Performance Bank Guarantee for faithful performance, covering the 60-month comprehensive warranty beyond contract completion; the printed form extends enforceability to 90 days after warranty.
Field supply is paid 60% within 45 days of complete delivery/receipt, 20% after erection at all field interface points, and 20% after successful testing, commissioning and acceptance; erection is paid 100% pro rata after successful installation/commissioning and seven consecutive days of data receipt.
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.
Bidder must be an Indian Companies Act company with registered office and operations in India, and hold valid ISO 9001 for meter manufacturing, ISO/IEC 27001, ISO 14001, ISO 45001:2018, and CMMI Level 3 or higher.
Bidder—or lead bidder for a JV/consortium—must have positive net worth of at least Rs.100 Crores in each of FY 2021-22 to FY 2025-26 and Minimum Average Annual Turnover not less than Rs.100 Crores in each of those five years.
Bidder/any consortium partner must have supplied at least 500 Class 0.2 ABT meters directly to Indian electrical utilities; turnkey supplied and erected at least 500 such meters to government utilities/PSUs/SLDCs/RLDCs/STUs/boards; and executed at least one supply-and-install turnkey contract of Rs.10 crores or more.
Bidder must operate a NABL-accredited lab for at least three years for IS 14697/IS 15959 meter testing with DLMS/COSEM capability; hold BIS/ISI certification for India-made meters plus type-test and DLMS certificates not older than three years; and have one central-control/local-substation ABT online-monitoring project covering at least 35 substations in the last five years.
Before technical evaluation, bidder must demonstrate three meters feeding the Vijayawada CDC from Vijayawada, Kadapa and Visakhapatnam zones for seven continuous days, with 99% collection success, latency below 15 minutes, DLMS/COSEM compliance and time synchronization within ±2 seconds.
All mandatory requirements and minimum specifications must be met, and the technical proposal must score at least 60/100 under QCBS. Scoring covers commissioned 0.2S meters, AMR projects, and on-roll key staff: project manager, metering specialist, AMR/IT specialist, cybersecurity/database specialist and field engineers.
JV/consortium participation is contemplated: lead bidder must meet financial criteria and any partner may meet technical criteria. No consortium size, lead equity, member liability, agreement format, or blacklisting/debarment declaration is specified in the supplied documents.
What is being procured: the work, supplies or services, deliverables and quantities, locations, phases, completion or delivery timelines, applicable standards, and notable exclusions.
Statewide supply, installation, testing and commissioning of 0.2S Interface/ABT energy meters and AMR infrastructure/software for APTRANSCO boundary points from 220 kV down to 33 kV, replacing incompatible 15-minute meters with 5/15-minute-capable IEMs.
Deliver IEMs, DCUs/modems/network switches/power supplies/enclosures, CAT-6/FO cabling, MDAS and MDP at CDC/BDC, integration with existing DSM/SAMAST for billing/reports/losses, cybersecurity, testing, training, documentation, source/data handover and ten-year support lifecycle.
Detailed BOQ calls for 4,287 0.2S meters, 4,046 TTBs, 2,016 IEM boxes, 1,093 dual-SIM DCUs, 1,274 DCU boxes, 525 station-level LIU/switch/DCU sets, associated switches/cables/SDH equipment, two internet/telephone connections, installation/training/cybersecurity as one lot, and five-year comprehensive AMC as one lot.
Complete within 12 months: survey by day 60; first 1,500 meters supplied by day 120 and commissioned by day 180; second 1,500 by day 240; remaining stated 1,267 by day 300; integration/UAT by day 345; 30-day stabilization by day 360; final acceptance by day 365.
Five-year comprehensive warranty from commissioning/acceptance, followed by five years of hardware AMC and software ATS; bidder maintains adequate spares throughout. CDC/BDC IT hardware is excluded from bidder supply, but all other hardware/software needed for a functional AMR system is included.
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 separate technical and financial bids online only; prices must appear only in the financial bid. Late bids are rejected.
Authorized signatory must sign and stamp technical and financial bids; every page of the downloaded RFP and corrigenda must be signed/stamped. Response must be complete, page-numbered and indexed with clause/annexure/page cross-references.
Original bid-security BG must be delivered to O/o Chief Engineer/Transmission, Vidyut Soudha, Gunadala, Vijayawada-520004 on the next working day after bid closing; the checklist also calls for original Power of Attorney, but gives no separate physical-delivery deadline.
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.
Published 02.09.2026; its attachment replaces the original Rs.103,94,42,300.00 ECV with Rs.63,98,49,336.67, split into energy meters, AMR system and erection portions.
The original 24.08.2026 17:00 hrs bid deadline was ultimately extended to 25.09.2026 17:00 hrs IST in the latest portal record. Corrigendum 1's attachment contains only revised ECV, and Corrigendum 2 (15.09.2026) has no supplied attachment, so the intermediate date and amended opening time are not document-verifiable.
ECV: Rs.63,98,49,336.67; bid submission: 25.09.2026 at 17:00 hrs IST per latest portal record; bid validity: 180 days from final submission deadline. Revised bid-opening time and fixed EMD amount remain unresolved in supplied amendment documents.
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.
Original ECV is Rs.103,94,42,300 and EMD is fixed at Rs.2,07,88,850 as 2%; Corrigendum 1 reduces ECV to Rs.63,98,49,336.67 without printing a revised EMD. Latest ECV prevails, but the payable EMD must be clarified rather than inferred.
Milestone schedule totals 4,267 meters (1,500 + 1,500 + 1,267), while the detailed BOQ requires 4,287. The specific BOQ quantity of 4,287 should govern pricing, but APTRANSCO must correct the phase allocation and acceptance targets.
Clause 5.1 permits BG/FD, the NIT permits BG or NEFT/RTGS, while clause 8.2 says the security shall be a bank guarantee. No precedence rule resolves the mode; obtain portal/authority confirmation before payment.
Section 1 says 180 days from last submission date; Proforma II says 180 days from bid opening. Section 1 is the operative ITB period, but bidder should align the undertaking date with written clarification because an amended opening date is unavailable.
Clause 25 first says all project-created IPR belongs to APTRANSCO, then says the service provider owns application-software IPR and APTRANSCO receives only a non-exclusive, non-transferable internal-use licence. Neither side clearly prevails; contract clarification is essential for pricing and reuse rights.
Submission clause says both bids are online only, while amendment clause 3.5 requires a hard copy of amendments/corrigenda as an enclosure. Treat online submission as primary and seek confirmation whether any signed hard copy beyond original BG/POA is required.
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.
After ECV reduction to Rs.63,98,49,336.67, confirm the exact EMD amount, whether the fixed Rs.2,07,88,850 still applies, and whether BG, FD and NEFT/RTGS are all accepted.
Confirm whether bidders must price 4,287 meters and issue a revised phase schedule reconciling the 4,267-meter milestone total, including acceptance and LD baselines.
Specify maximum members, lead-member share, member liability, required consortium agreement/POAs, whether credentials can be aggregated, and post-award change restrictions; current text only assigns financial criteria to the lead and technical criteria to any partner.
Provide the full SLA, service levels, measurement rules and all penalties now; the RFP makes delay subject to an SLA signed only after contract, creating unpriceable post-award exposure beyond the stated LD cap.
Provide milestone payment percentages for AMR/MDAS/MDP software and reconcile APTRANSCO ownership, vendor ownership, licence scope, source-code handover and escrow rights.
Confirm whether only original BG and POA are physical, the deadline/address for POA and signed corrigenda, and the technical-bid opening time after Corrigendum 2.
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.
LD is 0.5% of total Contract Price per week against each delayed milestone, capped cumulatively at 10%. Falling below 80% of a cumulative installation target triggers a no-cost recovery plan/resources; failure for two consecutive milestones may be material breach.
Delay also attracts penalties under an SLA to be signed within 15 days after contract; absent pre-bid SLA thresholds make total exposure and interaction with the 10% LD cap unclear.
10% PBG remains through the five-year warranty and 90-day post-warranty claim tail; bidder then carries five more years of hardware AMC/software ATS, adequate spares, cybersecurity patches and broad system support.
Field supply retains 40% until erection/acceptance, erection payment follows successful seven-day data receipt, and APTRANSCO pays no interest for delayed supply payments beyond 45 days. Software-specific milestone percentages are not stated in the extracted payment table.
Statewide survey, manufacture, dispatch, installation, communications, 4,287-meter rollout, integration, UAT and 30-day stabilization must finish within 365 days, with at least 98% daily availability for final acceptance.
APTRANSCO may terminate and forfeit performance security for delivery/default, suspend all payments for non-performance, and receives broad surviving indemnities for regulatory, labour, injury and third-party claims including litigation costs.
Bidder receives time extension for APTRANSCO-caused delay but no compensation for resulting cost increases, leaving prolongation cost with the contractor.
Rates are fixed for the service period and include development, commissioning, support, audits, licences, warranty maintenance and delivery. Tax clauses use legacy service-tax/Form C/D wording, requiring GST-era clarification.
The inviting authority and relevant contacts: office, person, designation, address, phone and email — and which address receives physical submissions, if any.
Chief Engineer/Transmission, APTRANSCO, Vidyut Soudha, Gunadala, Vijayawada-520004; phone 0866-2429230 Ext. 2011; email [email protected].
SE/Transmission: 9849214991; ADE: 9490082744. RFP/query assistance: EE/EBC 9490154702 and DEE/EBC 8333992956.