Hyderabad-based Coempt Edu Teck Pvt Ltd has secured the Central Board of Secondary Education's (CBSE) contract for digital scanning and e-evaluation of answer booklets, outperforming Mumbai-headquartered Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) in the technical evaluation and submitting a financial bid that was nearly 60% lower.
The contract was awarded through the Quality and Cost Based Selection (QCBS) method, where technical scores carried a weightage of 70% and financial bids 30%. Coempt quoted rates ranging from ₹24.75 to ₹25.74 per answer booklet, while TCS quoted between ₹53 and ₹65 per booklet, resulting in a difference of nearly ₹566 crore in the evaluated bid value.
Coempt secured 91 marks in the technical round, compared to TCS's 89, with the decisive difference emerging in the 'Past Experience of Bidder' parameter, where Coempt secured 32 out of 35 marks against TCS's 25.
