With the completion of the contracting process for the Disaster Recovery Center and Data Center Interconnect, China's Kulun Digital has been selected.
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Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) has selected China's Kullun Digital Technology Company through financial evaluation for the design, supply, installation and commissioning of the Disaster Recovery Center (DRC) and the Private Cloud Infrastructure and Data Center Interconnect (DCI). The NEA has made the 'Notice of Intent to Award Contract' public a year after inviting bids. The NEA first invited bids on 9 May 2025. The deadline for the bids was set at 23 June 2025. Since then, the NEA has extended the deadline to 8 July 2025, 18 July 2025 and finally 25 July 2025. The evaluation process has been ongoing since then. Four companies applied to the authority on May 8, 2026. The applicants were China's Kulun Digital Technology, China's ZTE Corporation, India's VVDN Technology, and China's JV Wisdom DFE. Of these, China's Kulun Digital Technology and JV Wisdom DFE were selected for financial evaluation after technical evaluation.
Even after a year of inviting bids, the evaluation has not been completed
The authority had been saying that the report was sent after technical and financial evaluation since it will be operated with a loan from the Asian Development Bank (ADB). Since it is under the ADB loan, further processes were taken forward after the agreement was reached, says Durgananda Badiyait, Deputy Executive Director of the Authority's Project Management Directorate. 'We have made public the notice of intention to approve the contract with the names of four companies, two companies that were excluded from the technical evaluation, and the selected companies,' he said.
He said that after seven days, the process of contract agreement will be proceeded by issuing a letter of intent in the name of China's Kullun Digital Technology, depending on whether any other party complains or not. China's Kullun Digital Technology has won the contract for Rs. 72 million 33 thousand. The Authority has set an objective to build a Disaster Recovery Center (DRC) in the premises of the New-Butwal Substation in Bhumahi, Nawalparasi. In addition, the Authority has planned to install cloud infrastructure in its existing data center (DC) and establish a dual-path connection between the data center and the disaster recovery center using a dense wavelength division multiplexing network. Along with this, the cloud infrastructure for both the data center and the disaster recovery center will be integrated.
