Bangalore headquartered UTL has emerged as the commercial winner in BBNL GPON bid which took place on 18thFebruary. This bid was for the most ambitious project of Bharat Broadband Network (BBNL) to connect villages of India.Out of the seven bidders, four were CDOT license bidders including UTL, TEJAS, VMC (bid through L&T, BEL. ITI & STERLITE were with Alphion and ZTE was the seventh.
This is interesting to note UTL being an Indian company had edged past ZTE and Alphion in huge cost difference.This bid was having 75% reservation with PMA for domestic manufactures.
The commercial bid was opened with Bangalore headquartered UTL as the lowest bidder around Rs 1000 Cr followed by ITI & Tejas being 2nd& 3rd lowest.In the scenario UTL being an India company wins the 40% and global 25% will be passed to them because global bidder is higher in cost amounting UTL to secure 65% of order.
Rest 35% will be distributed amongst the subsequent bidders in defined proportion as in bid subject then meet the lowest bidder price. In case they fail to meet the UTL price the 100% bid quantity will be ordered to UTL.
“UTL is adjudged as the commercial winner in BBNL GPON bid. In present scenario we may obtain minimum 65% of order quantity. In few months this will be finalised. The consistent effort by UTL to be a global leader in Optical products like GPON & WDM got a major boost by this win. We are happy that being the biggest Indian Optical products company, we are privileged to serve the most futuristic project of India through BBNL. In the past we had successfully executed similar big ticket wins in BSNL DWDM worth around Rs 1000 Cr & various state wide area networks,” said Debasish Choudhury, the Vice President of United Telecoms.
