Asiatic Society of Mumbai
Town Hall, Shahid Bhagat Singh Road, Fort, Mumbai 400 001.
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TENDER NOTICE

Notice inviting competitive bids for digitization / microfilming

The Society proposes to launch the Library Digitization Project – Phase-II. The quantum of work is estimated at digitization and microfilming of about 75,000 old, valuable and rare books; 9,00,000 pages of Journals and 8,00,000 pages of old newspapers in the holding of the Society.

To know the condition of the material, authorized representative of the bidder may visit the office of the Society on any day between 27th and 30rd May, 2019, during office hours (10.30 a.m. to 6 p.m.). Bid documents will be available on these days on payment of Rs.1,000/- in cash. Please go through the documents carefully, note the eligibility conditions and technical standards and send your quotations conforming to the terms and conditions to the office of the Society by 11 a.m. on 11th June, 2019.

Pre-bid conference will be held at 4 p.m. on 4th June, 2019, in the office of the Society to offer clarification to prospective bidders on questions sent to the Society by e-mail. The sample documents and multilingual OCR for ‘Proof of Concept’ will be given to the bidders present, to be returned after due processing, on 7th June, 2019, at the office of the Society.

Technical bids will be opened on 11th June, 2019, at 12 noon, before the bidders present. The Committee for assessment of bids will check completeness of documents, may ask for supplementary information and if necessary, presentation.

Financial bids of technical bidders satisfying the terms and conditions of technical bid, will be opened at 11.30 a. m. on 14th June, 2019. Selection of vendor will be made after evaluation of financial bids, and communicated in writing.