India's [ Images ] top three IT companies are understood to have been rejected by the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) for a project related to the country's biggest biometric count.
Tata Consultancy Services [ Get Quote ] (TCS), Infosys Technologies and Wipro [ Get Quote ] were eliminated from the selection process for the project on technical grounds. Another IT major, HCL Technologies [ Get Quote ], was also rejected. The size of the project is not yet known. UIDAI is working on an ambitious plan to give a unique identification number to each of India's 100 crore-plus citizens. It is headed by software entrepreneur Nandan Nilekani.
UIDAI instead shortlisted global IT services companies IBM and Accenture, and also Bangalore-based IT services and solutions provider MindTree [ Get Quote ] for the application development services (ADM) segment of the UID project. ADM is the first of the many IT projects of UIDAI that have come up for bidding until now.
A TCS spokesperson said the company does not comment on customer-specific information. Emails sent to Infosys [ Get Quote ] and Wipro remained unanswered.
"The bids were opened today and of the 10 identified companies, the UID team shortlisted only three for this project. The final bidder will be announced soon. Those companies that are out of the race have been rejected on technical grounds," said a person close to the development, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
IT firms bidding for the project had to clear a technical test, which has a cut-off of 70 per cent. Those who would clear this would then be evaluated on a commercial basis.
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