Motorola keen to re-bid in revised BSNL tender

NEW DELHI: In the thick of a controversy over its disqualification from the 45.5 million GSM line tender by BSNL, US-based telecom vendor Motorola on Monday said it will once again join the race in case fresh bids were called.

"If there is a request for proposal to the tender, we will re-bid... it all depends on specifications of the revised tender...we will certainly be in the run," Motorola India Country President Amit Sharma said here at an Assocham seminar.

"Vide this tender we will participate in all future BSNL tenders," Sharma said adding, his company had withdrawn the petition challenging its disqualification from the contract because it did not want to harm the interest of BSNL and wanted to forge a working partnership with the PSU.

He expressed surprise on being disqualified from the 45.5 million GSM tender saying, "We had been globally getting high value tenders...if we qualify globally why can't we do it in India."

Motorola had participated along with its Chinese partner ZTE in the contract two years ago, but a technical evaluation done by a panel had disqualified the company on grounds of 3G equipment delivery incapability.