In a first of its kind for any Smart City in the country, the pre-bid meet on the Master System Integrator (MSI), the Bhubaneswar Smart City limited (BSCl) on Tuesday saw an overwhelming response from the technology sector, with participation of 82 perspective bidders.
While there were 130 executives from various levels present to put forth their queries and suggestions before the BSCl, the participants included original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), system integrators (Sis), Internet Service Providers (ISPs), local players in IT industry and even start-ups in IT-based applied sector. Major companies present were BSNl, WIPRO, HP, Aritel, TCS, IBM, Il&FS, Schneider Electrical, Cisco, Oracle, Thales, Bosch, Nokia, HFCl, Tech Mahindra, Honeywell, Ortel, CA Technology, l&T, Shapoorji Pallonji, Dell, and logitech.
The response was such that before the pre-bid meeting, the BSCl received 2,010 queries on various aspects of the MSI.
The MSI is the backbone of the Bhubaneswar Smart Solutions Project and has been approved by the Odisha Government. The MSI would cost around Rs 585 crore and will integrate services like Smart Traffic Management, Smart Parking Management, City Wi-Fi, Emergency Response System, Integrated City Operations and Management System and Smart Tracking Management System for Multi-modal City Transport and City Surveillance under the Smart City proposal.
The meeting was attended by BSCl CEO Vineel Krishna, GM (Operations) Binay Kumar Dash and GM (Engineering and Technology) Simanchal Maharana, among others.
A senior representative of a well-known IT company after the pre-bid meeting said, “Perhaps this is the only pre-bid meeting I have ever seen with so many participants from across the country. It shows the popularity of the Number 1 Smart City of the country as it has so many uniqueness in its proposal.’’