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equipment, annual turn-over, experience in similar work etc, the details of which will
be given in the tender documents.
(c) Ownership of the final product and pricing of products
Specifications of the final product, to be supplied by the private player shall be
fixed in advance and given in the tender document. The final product shall be coowned
by the SOI and the respective private player. However, in accordance with
the National Map Policy, 2005, the private player shall have ownership rights of only
those data pertaining to “unrestricted areas” notwithstanding the fact that the private
player have contributed to making the data for the “restricted area”. Clauses to this
effect will be integral part of all agreements between SOI and the private player. The
respective owners can do value addition, resell the data complying with and subject
to such guidelines, rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Government.
(d) Apportionment of areas among private players interse
It is less likely that a single private player will be able to complete the entire
work – division of work therefore among the players is indispensable. The proposed
model envisages neither an arbitrary administrative decision nor any type of random
lottery method for allotment of areas among the players. This has to be done in a
transparent and competitive bidding scheme. The total area of the country shall be
divided into say 10 zones, not necessarily contiguous in geographic terms, but which
are approximately equal in area and business potential. Areas within India are not
homogeneous from development point of view. For instance, areas in Andhra
Pradesh and Karnataka are undergoing rapid infrastructural development and the
demand for GT products of these areas are in high demand. But GT products of
Chattisgarh and Jharkhand may not have high demand, since these are mostly forest
areas and development projects may not come here with the same gusto. So the
player who gets Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh gets more returns than his
counterpart working in the forested states. The private players have to bid for the
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