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Tata Consultancy Services along with government owned subsidiary CMC is planning to bid for a massive contract of Rs 5,000 crore which will require them to set up a massive database for the implementation of the Unique ID project.

The UIDAI project needs biometric and fingerprint information of its 1.2 billion strong population and is seeking help from top notch companies that can provide relevant expertise in collecting the data required.

CMC CEO MD R Ramanan said - “Whether we bid as a consortium or not will largely depend on the conditions specified in the RFP. If they want a single point of contact, then CMC will act as a sub-contractor to TCS.”

TCS and CMC have a strong working relationship over the years to create a bigger competitive government business system which is bigger than domestic rivals like Wipro and Infosys.

“We have worked together on all major mission mode projects such as the MCA (Ministry of Company Affairs) e-governance project and SWAN (state-wide area network) projects in Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Bihar,” said Mr Ramanan.

Computerisation of State Electricity Boards (SEBs) has proved to be another area of opportunity for both CMC and TCS. By jointly bidding for these projects, TCS has, so far, bagged two out of the three projects awarded by the SEBs.

CMC has already implemented a biometric project for the Chattisgarh government and is looking forward for the challenge. For the UID project, biometric technology will be crucial to capture and validate citizen information.

Meanwhile, multinational rivals IBM along with Wipro and Infosys are already preparing solutions to bid for the UID project, and like many other projects, TCS will face some aggressive competition.