https://tstt.etenderworld.tt/

											<p style="font-weight:400;">Welcome to the eTenders Website of the Telecommunications Services of Trinidad and Tobago Limited (TSTT).</p>
<p style="font-weight:400;">This website shall provide the most recent information about tendering opportunities at TSTT and shall lists, inter alia, upcoming, current and closed tendering opportunities that have been or are to be provided by TSTT.</p>
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<p style="font-weight:400;"><strong>Register for Pre-Qualification</strong></p>
<p style="font-weight:400;">Upon registering to use this eTenders website, you will be given the option to receive email notifications when new tender opportunities that match your self-defined profile, are published here.</p>
<p style="font-weight:400;">To participate in the eTenders Program you must register for pre-qualification.</p>
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<p style="font-weight:400;"><strong>Use of this Website</strong></p>
<p style="font-weight:400;">The use of this eTenders website is governed by the Terms and Conditions set out below. These terms and conditions are important and are there for the protection of all stakeholders in TSTT's tenders process. Please take time to read them carefully. By using this website you will be deemed to have accepted them and that your use is at your own risk.</p>
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<p style="font-weight:400;"><strong>TERMS AND CONDITIONS </strong></p>
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<li style="font-weight:400;"><strong>Introduction</strong></li>
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<p style="font-weight:400;"> </p>
<p style="font-weight:400;">(a)   The access and use of Telecommunications Services of Trinidad and Tobago Limited ("TSTT") e-Tender website – www.etender.tstt.co.tt ("the Website") by the Vendor is governed by the Terms and Conditions listed hereunder.</p>
<p style="font-weight:400;">(b)   These Terms and Conditions when accepted by the Vendor shall constitute an Agreement between the Vendor and TSTT.</p>
<p style="font-weight:400;">(c)    The procurement process may include an Invitation to Tender ("ITT"), a Request for Proposal ("RFP") or a Request for Quotation ("RFQ").</p>
<p style="font-weight:400;">(d)   All ITTs, RFPs and RFQs published by TSTT on the Website are invitations to treat.</p>
<p style="font-weight:400;">(e)   These Terms and Conditions apply to the Vendor's and any Assigned Vendor Users' access to and use of the Website. The Vendor acknowledges that by an Assigned Vendor User accessing the Website using the user ID and password provided by TSTT, the Vendor and Assigned Vendor Users agree to be bound by these Terms and Conditions.</p>
<p style="font-weight:400;">(f)     The Vendor shall only use the System to respond to TSTT's procurement process in accordance with these Terms and Conditions and any specific rules expressed and presented in the Website.</p>
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<li style="font-weight:400;"><strong>Access</strong></li>
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<p style="font-weight:400;">(a)   The Website shall enable the Vendor to:-</p>
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<li style="font-weight:400;">View ITTs, RPFs and RFQs documentation and information, and</li>
<li style="font-weight:400;">Download ITTs, RPFs and RFQs documentation and information electronically via the Internet</li>
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<p style="font-weight:400;">(b)    TSTT grants to the Vendor and Assigned Vendor Users access to the System for the purpose of responding to its procurement process, subject to these Terms and Conditions.</p>
<p style="font-weight:400;">(c)    TSTT may immediately deny access to the System by the Vendor and or one or more Assigned Vendor Users by giving notice to the Vendor if any of the following events occur:</p>
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<li style="font-weight:400;"> the Vendor commits a material breach of any of its obligations under these Terms and Conditions;</li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"> the Vendor fails to remedy, or persists in, any breach of any of its obligations under these Terms and Conditions after having been notified by TSTT to remedy or desist from such breach within a period of  21 Working Days;</li>
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<p style="font-weight:400;">iii.   the Vendor has been notified by TSTT that it has been suspended, de-listed or otherwise rendered inactive from TSTT's approved list of pre-qualified Vendors.</p>
<p style="font-weight:400;">(d)    Without prejudice to any of TSTT's other rights, TSTT reserves the right to amend and/or suspend access to the System for technical or legal reasons. </p>
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<li style="font-weight:400;"><strong>Registration</strong></li>
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<p style="font-weight:400;"> </p>
<p style="font-weight:400;">(a)   To be granted access to the System, the Vendor must register with TSTT an assigned person which the Vendor wishes to be the Assigned Vendor User to act on its behalf for the purpose of utilizing the System, by providing the required registration data requested by TSTT.</p>
<p style="font-weight:400;">(b)   The Assigned Vendor User's access will be activated by TSTT following a check and verification of the registration data.</p>
<p style="font-weight:400;">(c)    Upon registration of the Vendor and/or Assigned Vendor User, TSTT shall assign a user ID and password together with a Digital Certificate to the Vendor with a designated Digital Signature assigned to the Assigned Vendor User, which Digital Signature shall be affixed to such documents as shall be required by TSTT when using the System.</p>
<p style="font-weight:400;">(d)   User ID and password are strictly personal to the Assigned Vendor User and non-transferable. The Vendor shall ensure that its Assigned Vendor User does not divulge or disclose his/her user ID or password to third parties. In the event that the Vendor or the Assigned Vendor User becomes aware that a user ID and/or password may have been divulged, disclosed or discovered by any third Party, they shall immediately notify TSTT HelpDesk at e-mail etender@tstt.co.tt and telephone no. 800-4RFP during the hours of 8.00 am to 4.00 pm (Trinidad and Tobago time) on Mondays to Fridays, or such other designated point of contact as may be assigned by TSTT from time to time.</p>
<p style="font-weight:400;">(e)   The Vendor must immediately notify TSTT HelpDesk (to be confirmed by written communication to TSTT) in the event that the Assigned Vendor User leaves its employment or no longer requires access to the System. In such case, the Vendor must immediately inform TSTT HelpDesk of the new assigned vendor user to act on its behalf for the purpose of utilizing the System and shall provide additional registration data as may be required by TSTT. TSTT retains the right to deactivate the Assigned Vendor User's user Id and password if there has been no access for a period of ninety (90) days</p>
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<li style="font-weight:400;"><strong>Use of the Website </strong></li>
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<p style="font-weight:400;">(a)   All responses to ITTs, RFPs and RFQs must be submitted through the System by the closing date and time as specified in the particular procurement process.</p>
<p style="font-weight:400;">(b)   Responses shall be submitted through the System at any time up to the closing date and time as specified on the System for the particular procurement process but Vendors are advised to desist from submitting voluminous and extensive responses too close to the closing date and time in the event of a system malfunction on the Vendor's part and or the Vendor's server.</p>
<p style="font-weight:400;">(c)     Vendors are expected to examine all the file attachments published in the System, which indicate what information and documentation must be provided.</p>
<p style="font-weight:400;">(d)   Vendors must provide all of the items of information requested in the procurement process and shall be responsible for the accuracy of all the information and documentation provided to TSTT via the use of the Website.</p>
<p style="font-weight:400;">(e)   Vendors shall be permitted to submit and upload through the System one (1) single PDF document no larger than 20 Mbs for the particular procurement process.</p>
<p style="font-weight:400;">(f)     Incomplete submission of the information requested including the submission of information in file attachments containing viruses that have been advised by the System shall entitle TSTT to invalidate or reject the response to the procurement process.</p>
<p style="font-weight:400;">(g)     The Vendor agrees to keep any responses valid for a period of one hundred and twenty (120) days from the closing date and time for the submission of responses, unless any other period is specified in the terms and conditions of the particular procurement process.</p>
<p style="font-weight:400;">(h)   Responses will be opened by TSTT in accordance with the opening procedures specified on the System for each procurement process.</p>
<p style="font-weight:400;">(i)     Should the Vendor when submitting a bid experience any technical difficulties within the System which are within the control of TSTT, Vendors are advised to immediately communicate with TSTT's HelpDesk. </p>
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<li style="font-weight:400;"><strong>Vendor's Obligations</strong></li>
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<p style="font-weight:400;">(a)   The Vendor shall ensure that all its Assigned Vendor Users comply with these Terms and Conditions.</p>
<p style="font-weight:400;">(b)    The Vendor shall use all reasonable care and skill in performing its obligations under these Terms and Conditions.</p>
<p style="font-weight:400;">(c)    The Vendor agrees to grant to TSTT a licence to any information and or documentation provided through the use of the Website and procurement process. The Vendor acknowledges and agrees that there will be no royalty or other fees payable by TSTT to it, its Assigned Vendor or any third party for this right.</p>
<p style="font-weight:400;">(d)   The Vendor shall provide its Assigned Vendor Users with the adequate equipment and software needed to access and use the System.</p>
<p style="font-weight:400;">(e)    The Vendor shall provide adequate software to ensure the security of the System and use best endeavours to protect the System from viruses when being accessed and used by its Assigned Vendor Users.</p>
<p style="font-weight:400;">(f)      The Vendor agrees that any information and or documentation submitted to the Website shall not in any way be potentially or actually harmful to TSTT or any third party, where harm includes but is not limited to non-economic loss that shall or may be suffered by TSTT.</p>
<p style="font-weight:400;">(g)     The Vendor shall use the System for lawful and proper purposes only and shall, in any event, comply with all relevant laws and regulations within Trinidad and Tobago.</p>
<p style="font-weight:400;">(h)   In particular, the Vendor agrees that its response to any ITTs, RFPs and RFQs, in the procurement process shall not:</p>
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<li style="font-weight:400;">Be false, inaccurate or misleading, deceptive, threatening or harassing;</li>
<li style="font-weight:400;">Be fraudulent or involve the sale of counterfeit or stolen items;</li>
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<p style="font-weight:400;">iii.  Be harmful, obscene, defamatory, illegal, or contain any malicious code, data or set of instructions that intentionally or unintentionally causes harm or subverts the intended function of the Website including but not limited to computer viruses, trojans horses (a program used to capture unsuspecting people's log on and passwords), worms, time bombs, cancel bots, easter eggs or other computer programming routines that may damage, modify, delete, detrimentally interfere with, surreptiously intercept, access without authority or expropriate any system, data or personal information;</p>
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<li style="font-weight:400;">Infringe the rights of others in particular but not limited to those relating to intellectual property rights – copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret or other proprietary rights, rights of publicity, confidentiality or privacy;</li>
<li style="font-weight:400;">Violate any law, statute, ordinance or regulation (including, but not limited to those governing export and import controls, consumer protection, unfair competition, criminal law, antidiscrimination and trade practices / fair trading law;</li>
<li style="font-weight:400;">Use any software, routine or device to interfere or attempt to interfere electronically or manually with the operation or functionality of the System, including uploading or making available files containing corrupt data or viruses via whatever means;</li>
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<p style="font-weight:400;">vii. Create liability for TSTT or cause TSTT to lose (in whole or in part) the services of TSTT Internet Service Providers or other suppliers.</p>
<p style="font-weight:400;">(i)     The Vendor agrees that its Assigned Vendor Users shall act as authorised agent for and on behalf of the Vendor in submitting any response to any ITTs, RFPs and RFQs, on the System.</p>
<p style="font-weight:400;">(j)      The Vendor shall be solely responsible and liable for any unauthorised, false or fraudulent response to any ITTs, RFPs, and RFQs in the procurement process that is submitted using one of its Assigned Vendor Users' user id and password.</p>
<p style="font-weight:400;">(k)     The Vendor represents and warrants that:</p>
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<li style="font-weight:400;"> all information and or documentation it provides shall be accurate and complete and shall accurately represent the Vendor's capabilities;</li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"> it shall have the right, through actual ownership or otherwise, to provide any product or service that is the subject of any response made by it to any ITT, RFP or RFQ;</li>
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<p style="font-weight:400;">iii.  it has the ability to sell the goods/services/works at the prices offered in any response made by it to any ITT, RFP or RFQ in the procurement process and according to the relevant criteria specified by TSTT</p>
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<li style="font-weight:400;"><strong>Amendments to a procurement process</strong></li>
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<p style="font-weight:400;"> </p>
<p style="font-weight:400;">(a)   The Vendor acknowledges that:</p>
<p style="font-weight:400;"> TSTT reserves the right to:</p>
<p style="font-weight:400;">(a)   suspend and re-open or cancel a procurement process or extend the closing date and time; and/or</p>
<p style="font-weight:400;">(b)    vary or amend the details of a procurement process at any time prior to the closing date and time for receipt of response by publication of a notification through the System and without incurring any liability whatsoever; and</p>
<p style="font-weight:400;">(c)    in the event of a suspension and subsequent re-opening of a procurement exercise, the procurement process will resume on the basis of the last response recorded by the Vendor through the System.</p>
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<li style="font-weight:400;"><strong>Intellectual Property Rights</strong></li>
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<p style="font-weight:400;"> </p>
<p style="font-weight:400;">(a)   All Intellectual Property Rights in the System are owned by, or are under licence to, TSTT.</p>
<p style="font-weight:400;">(b)   The Vendor and its Assigned Vendor Users shall have no Intellectual Property Rights in the System, nor shall it have any rights to copy, adapt, modify or interfere with the System.</p>
<p style="font-weight:400;">(c)     The System may include TSTT's logos and/or trade mark. The Vendor acknowledges that it may not copy, use, or mask TSTT's logo and/or trade mark which appear on the System without the prior consent of the TSTT.</p>
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<li style="font-weight:400;"><strong>Limitation of Liability</strong></li>
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<p style="font-weight:400;"> </p>
<p style="font-weight:400;">(a)   Subject to the responsibilities implied by law which may not be excluded, TSTT shall not be liable to the Vendor for any loss, damage, claims, expenses (including legal costs, loss of profits or savings, loss of data) whatsoever, arising out of or attributable to any content or material, loss or corruption of documents and or information provided by TSTT</p>
<p style="font-weight:400;">(b)   TSTT shall not be liable to the Vendor for any direct loss, indirect loss or damages incurred by the Vendor arising from the use of the System caused by:</p>
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<li style="font-weight:400;"> An event of Force Majeure that affects the availability and/or performance of the System;</li>
<li style="font-weight:400;">Incorrect use by Assigned Vendor Users of the System;</li>
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<p style="font-weight:400;">iii.   Connectivity failures in respect of the equipment used by the Assigned Vendor Users;</p>
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<li style="font-weight:400;">Breakdown of the System for a period of time not exceeding 30 Working Days.</li>
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<p style="font-weight:400;">(c)    The Vendor acknowledges and accepts that TSTT shall not be liable for:-</p>
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<li style="font-weight:400;">Loss of any responses to the procurement process, documents and/or other information in transit from the Vendor to TSTT through the use of the Website;</li>
<li style="font-weight:400;">Loss of any response, documents and or other information distributed to other parties by TSTT;</li>
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<p style="font-weight:400;">iii. Loss of any documents and or information provided to TSTT;</p>
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<li style="font-weight:400;">Any error or delay in the assessment of any response;</li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"> Any incorrect assessment of a response arising as a result of inaccurate or incomplete documentation or information provided by the Vendor.</li>
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<p style="font-weight:400;">(d)    The Vendor acknowledges and accepts that:</p>
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<li style="font-weight:400;">TSTT reserves the right to interrupt and/or suspend the availability of the System and/or revoke access at any time by notice to the Vendor without incurring any liability;</li>
<li style="font-weight:400;">TSTT provides the System on an ‘as is' basis and ‘as available' basis without any warranty of any kind;</li>
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<p style="font-weight:400;">iii. The links provided on the Website to external websites such as those operated by the government, non-government organizations and individuals are not endorsements by TSTT. TSTT does not accept any liability for any information or links on the System that may refer Assigned Vendor Users to external sources outside of TSTT's control.</p>
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<li style="font-weight:400;"><strong>Indemnity</strong></li>
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<p style="font-weight:400;"> </p>
<p style="font-weight:400;">The Vendor will indemnify TSTT in full against all claims, demands, actions or proceedings (including legal and other professional advisers' fees) made by any third Party arising out of or in relation to the Vendor's breach of its obligations under these Terms and Conditions.</p>
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<li style="font-weight:400;"><strong>Disclaimer</strong></li>
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<p style="font-weight:400;">TSTT its servants, agents, directors and officers:-</p>
<p style="font-weight:400;">(a)   do not accept responsibility expressed or implied for the accuracy, suitability, usefulness, and completeness or otherwise of the information and data contained on the System;</p>
<p style="font-weight:400;">(b)   do not warrant that the information and data contained on the System or sites linked to it are free from infection by computer viruses or that it does not infringe the intellectual property rights of any person anywhere in the world;</p>
<p style="font-weight:400;">(c)    do not authorise the infringement of any intellectual property rights contained in material in other sites linked to the System;</p>
<p style="font-weight:400;">(d)   do not accept responsibility for any errors in transmission or downloading documentation from the System;</p>
<p style="font-weight:400;">(e)   do not accept responsibility for non-adherence by the Vendor to the stipulated closing dates and times expressed in tender documents or otherwise amended by the relevant contracting authority;</p>
<p style="font-weight:400;">(f)     do not accept responsibility for the accuracy, suitability, usefulness, and completeness or otherwise for material contained on other websites linked to the System;</p>
<p style="font-weight:400;">(g)    reserve the right to amend this disclaimer as and when required without notice by updating this posting;</p>
<p style="font-weight:400;">(h)   shall not be liable for any delays, interruptions, errors or failures in the provision of the services not within the control of TSTT and its agents including Force Majeure, failure or fluctuation of electrical power, industrial action, industrial disputes, breakdown or other malfunctions of the Vendor technical equipment, including software.</p>
<p style="font-weight:400;">(i)     shall not be liable, either in contract or in tort, for any direct, incidental, consequential, indirect or punitive damages or any other losses, costs, expenses or damage of any kind claimed to have arisen as a result of using the System or as a result of the non-availability, non-functioning or malfunctioning of the services or otherwise in connection therewith.</p>
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<li style="font-weight:400;"><strong>Confidentiality</strong></li>
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<p style="font-weight:400;"> </p>
<p style="font-weight:400;">(a)   Each Party shall:-</p>
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<li style="font-weight:400;">treat all Confidential Information as Confidential and safeguard it accordingly;</li>
<li style="font-weight:400;">not disclose any Confidential Information to any third Party without the prior written consent of the other Party, except to such persons and to such extent as may be necessary for the performance of these Terms and Conditions; and</li>
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<p style="font-weight:400;">iii.   not use any Confidential Information otherwise than for the purposes of these Terms and Conditions.</p>
<p style="font-weight:400;">(b)    The Vendor shall take all necessary precautions to ensure that all Confidential Information obtained from TSTT under or in connection the System is:-</p>
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<li style="font-weight:400;">given only to such employee, consultant, sub-contractor, professional advisor or agent engaged to advise it in connection with the specific procurement process and these Terms and Conditions  as is strictly necessary for the performance of its obligations hereunder and then only to the extent necessary for each employee, consultant, sub-contractor, professional advisor or agent's activities in the performance of such obligations hereunder;</li>
<li style="font-weight:400;">treated as Confidential and not disclosed (without prior written approval of TSTT) or used by any employee, consultant, sub-contractor, professional advisor or agent otherwise than for the purposes of such obligations hereunder.</li>
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<p style="font-weight:400;">(c)    The provisions of this Clause shall not apply to any information:-</p>
<p style="font-weight:400;">i. Which is or becomes public knowledge (otherwise than by breach of the obligations of confidentiality under these Terms and Conditions);</p>
<p style="font-weight:400;">ii. Which is in possession of the Party concerned, without restriction as to its disclosure, before receiving it from the disclosing Party;</p>
<p style="font-weight:400;">iii. Which is received from a third party who lawfully acquired it and who is under no obligation restricting its disclosure; or</p>
<p style="font-weight:400;">iv. Is independently developed without access to the Confidential Information.</p>