| The pubcaster had issued a tender notice in the leading
dailies today. According to the advertisment, the tender is a two
bid basis proposal.
According to the details available on the website, the applicants
would be required to provide support in designing and executing
graphics for day to day news bulletins and current affairs programme
and to conceptualise and develop montages and stings for regular
news segments as well as for special occasions. The applicants are
also expected to ve adept in creating story specific animated 3
D graphics for day to day operations, developing automated generation
of stock ticker from the stock data being received through ISDN
line and automated generation of animated graphics related to special
programmes as elections developing interface with data from a third
party.
The applicant should be able to execute, on day to day basis, graphics
generation for delivery on to the production switcher, to develop
application to facilitate updation of news ticker, breaking news,
news updates from remote location in the news room and provide automated
application for branding of graphics plates of all types.
According to the information available on the site, all the graphics
will be bilingual in English and Hindi and the development of graphics
and montages/ stings in regional languages should be quoted as an
option.
Beside the pubcaster also requires the agency to develop music
suiting the channel requirements for channel Id, montages and stings.
The agency will also have to create weather graphics with automated
generation taking data from IMD on a ISDN Line.
The job under the contract will also include providing support
services for the program and news in form of research, production
coordination.
One of the important clauses included in that the graphics and
research teams will be exclusive to Doordarshan and the output is
liable to be rejected in case of poor quality work with penalty
imposed.
The applicants will have to submit a non refundable processing
fee of Rs 10,000/- by demand draft in the name of "PBBCI, DG
Doordarshan'' in the envelope along with pre-qualification bid.
Last date for the receipt of tender is 30 January 2004 by 3.00
pm and the tender would be opened on 2 February 2004 in the presence
of the bidder or an authorized representative of the same.
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