Request for Proposal for e Ticketing Project - Archaeological Survey ...

RFP for e-Ticketing Project Volume-III
right to terminate the SLA within a further 30 days by written notice, to become
effective when specified in such notice. Pursuant to termination, the
consequences of termination as set out in Article 5.2 hereinafter will become
effective. The internal reorganization of the Implementation Agency shall not be
deemed an event of a change of Control for purposes of this Article unless the
surviving entity is of less net worth than the predecessor entity.
d. The SLA shall be a separate divisible contract in respect of this Agreement.
e. The Project engagement which includes the scheduled Project Implementation
Phase will be governed by the acceptance and testing criteria which will have ASI
and/or a technically competent agency or agencies for conducting the
acceptance and testing certifications simultaneously with the triggering of the
Project Phases in the manner herein below:
i. ASI will nominate a technically competent agency/person for conducting
acceptance testing and certification.
ii. The agency/person will lay down a set of guidelines following internationally
accepted norms and standards for testing and certification in all aspects of
project development and implementation covering software, hardware and
networking including the processes relating to the design of solution
architecture, design of systems and subsystems, coding, testing, business
process description, documentation, version control, change control,
security, service oriented architecture, performance in relation to compliance
with SLA, metrics, interoperability, scalability, availability and compliance
with all the technical and functional requirements of the RFP and this
Agreement.
iii. The agency/person will be involved with Project early in the development
stage to ensure that the guidelines are being followed and to avoid large
scale modifications pursuant to testing done after the application is fully
developed.
iv. The agency/person nominated by ASI can engage professional organizations
for conducting specific tests on the software, hardware, networking, security
and all other aspects.
v. The agency/person will establish appropriate processes for notifying the IA of
any deviations from the norms, standards or guidelines at the earliest
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