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Railways Float Fresh Tender for Surveillance Cameras With Coronavirus Specific Features

Lawstreet Journal 16 Jul 2020 10:36pm

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On Tuesday, 14th July 2020, Railways floated a fresh tender for thermal coronavirus surveillance cameras, dropping a clause that led to Indian firms saying it favored a Chinese firm while making it imperative for vendors to list each item's country of origin.

RailTel, a Railway PSU, last month floated the tender for AI-based surveillance cameras that measure individual body temperatures and even detect whether or not a person is wearing a mask.

Upon receiving feedback from vendors that requirements specified for the procurement of the equipment may have favored a Chinese firm, this tender was scrapped two weeks ago.

Indian vendors raised concerns in letters to RailTel that the requirements specified in the tender favored the Chinese company Hikvision, one of the largest video surveillance companies in the world which currently dominates the CCTV market in India.

They said Hikvision 's proprietary feature is the technology — DeepInMind â€” which is part of the camera's specification and listed in the tender document.

The new tender removed this technology as a requirement but retained another critical black body temperature feature — the capacity of the cameras to reliably calculate a person's emitted temperatures to tell whether or not a person has a fever.

Additionally, it has asked vendors to name the origin country of all equipment that they supply. "Bidder shall mention the country of manufacturing against each item in SOR (schedule of requirement). In case the country of manufacturing is not mentioned by the bidder, RailTel Reserves the right to reject his offer.

Moreover, the Government of India's Present, as well as Future Guideline regarding foreign country material, will be applicable," the new tender documents said.

The PSU also listed camera features to include software with simultaneous temperature screening for multiple… Continue Reading...


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