USFD TESTING OF FLASHBUTT WELDS USING RDSO APPROVED PAUT WELD TESTER IN BZA, GNT AND GTL DIVISIONS OF SCoR

The tenderer must have minimum average annual contractual turnover of V/N or 'V' whichever is less ; where V= Advertised value of the tender in crores of Rupees N= Number of years prescribed for completion of work for which bids have been invited. The average annual contractual turnover shall be calculated as an average of "total contractual payments" in the previous three financial years, as per the audited balance sheet. However, in case balance sheet of the previous year is yet to be prepared/ audited, the audited balance sheet of the fourth previous year shall be considered for calculating average annual contractual turnover. Tenderers should upload/submit to this effect any of the following authentic documents/certificates as per for evaluating the above financial eligibility criteria: (a)Attested Certificates(s) issued by Executive or Nominated Authority of the government Departments or Semi- Government/Public Sector Undertakings for the value of the work done for them during the qualifying period. Agreement- wise and Datewise or attested photo copy of such certificates. Such certificates will be accepted only from Govt. /Govt. bodies /PSUs authorities. Certificates issued by Private Bodies will not be considered. (b)Audited Balance Sheets clearly indicating contractual receipts from the works done for Govt./Govt. bodies/PSUs/Pvt. Organisation in the P&L Account of the balance sheet duly certified by the Chartered Accountant for the completed Financial years/Certificate from Chartered Accountant duly supported by Audited Balance sheet. NOTE: (i)Financial Year shall normally, be reckoned as 1st April to 31st March of the Next Year. However, for Turnover Criteria, the Financial Year as applicable to the Company/Tenderer is to be considered, if it defers from the above. (ii)Current Financial year is reckoned as the incomplete Financial year in which the date of tender submission falls. (iii)Chartered Accountant statements duly indicating yearly receipts will not be considered until and unless backed by Audited Balance Sheets, Profit & loss account statements. (iv)If the tenderer is not accompanied by the certificates(s) in support of financial eligibility as above, the tender shall be rejected. No post-tender correspondence will be entertained. ( v)Attestation of documents may be self attested or attested by a Gazetted Officer.

THE FOLLOWING ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA WILL BE APPLICABLE FOR THE TENDERED WORK: I.Firm should deploy a minimum of 7 Nos of PAUT weld testing machines each with one operator for undertaking the testing of quarterly alloted FB welds in BZA, GTL & GNT divisions of SCoR. (Vide para 9.8 of RDSO Lr. No. CT/USFD/Phased Array weld tester dated 27.06.2023) II.In addition to the above, the firms shall ensure the following criteria: a) Firm shall have RDSO verified PAUT weld tester. b) Firm shall have RDSO certified USFD operators for weld testing by conventional UT method as described in IRS-T-53. In addition to above, the operator should have competency certificate issued by OEM after completing requisite training for operation and data analysis of Phased Array ultrasonic weld tester. c) Firm shall have RDSO verified Quality Assurance Plan (QAP) for ultrasonic Testing of FB welds by Phased Array ultrasonic weld tester. d) The PAUT weld tester proposed to be used by firm on IR network should be in service on some other Railway network for USFD testing of Flash Butt (FB) welds and should have carried out USFD testing of at least 5000 FB welds with satisfactory performance. Firm shall submit a certificate of satisfactory performance of USFD testing of 5000 FB welds in this regard. e) Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) firms shall be eligible to participate in the tender. However, in case the OEM firm is not located in India, any Authorized Indian service provider or representative can participate in the tender. f) Data analysis cells/centre shall be set up for backend analysis of recorded ultrasonic testing data generated during testing by PAUT Weld testers. OEM/OEM's Authorised Indian Service Provider or Representative shall collaborate with Railway to operationalize these data analysis cells/centre as per the instruction of Railways. (i) Concerned team members of Zones to be upload & share regularly PAUT testing data of welds with these data analysis cells/centre. For uploading this data, corresponding authorization will be given to concerned team members accordingly. Data to be uploaded and shared in suitable cloud storage or servers. (ii) The ownership of this data & all related results/reports etc. will remain with Indian Railways. These data of ultrasonic testing (reports, recording) shall be kept & preserved as per guidelines. Suitable safety protocols & protection for stored data should be ensured. Admin rights of this storage system will remain with Railways. OEM/Service provider will not utilize or share this data/reports etc. outside IR, without the approval of Indian Railways. (iii) Undertaking from concerned OEM/OEM's Authorised Indian Service provider/ Representative will be required to provide required support/facilities for operationalizing these data analysis cells/centre. A certificate shall be given by concerned OEM communicating details of trained manpower, data analysis software features and related capabilities available with them to ensure the smooth & effective functioning of these data analysis cells/centre. (iv) As a part of eligibility criteria, tender

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