Telecom Lead India: Tulip Telecom has bagged a large
managed services contract for a Science and Technology body under the
Department of Information Technology of Indian Government.
With a wide range of Managed Services offerings and a
growing portfolio in government sector, Tulip looks forward to act as a
catalyst in the evolution of Information Communication and Technology (ICT)
adoption in the country and provide an impetus to Government’s e-governance
plans,” said HS Bedi, chairman and managing director, Tulip Telecom.
For this project, the company will be responsible for
Network Management, IT infrastructure management, links commissioning and
management amongst other day-to-day IT and network operations for various
Government departments.
Furthermore, the service provider will also be
responsible for Fault management, WAN management and the overall network
management for the networks implemented and managed by the institution.
It is one of the two selected service providers for the
networks implemented and managed by the body.
It has already received its first orders totaling to Rs
132 crore over a period of 5 years and will continue to receive the remaining
orders over the current quarter.
Tulip will assist in managing all the network facilities
created at their Disaster Recovery site at Hyderabad, State Headquarters (SHQ),
District Headquarters (DHQ), Tehsil Headquarters and Bhawans in their
respective States.
The company anticipated that it will require for it to
deploy close to 1400+ resources across the country for such large scale and
value order.
For this order, Tulip said that there is a significant
synergy in terms of skill set required with that of the existing team that the
company has on board.
Tulip Telecom income up 15% to Rs 2705 crore in FY2012
Recently, Tulip Telecom posted revenues of Rs 2705.1
crore in fiscal 2011-12, up 15.1 percent over FY11.
Tulip Telecom’s revenues in Q4 2011-12 were Rs 662 crore,
up 3.7 percent over the same quarter of previous fiscal.
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