{"id":1005795,"date":"2026-04-30T08:39:57","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T03:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1005795"},"modified":"2026-04-30T08:51:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T03:21:41","slug":"sc-seeks-response-on-%e2%82%b9375-crore-nicsi-tender-dispute-over-onextel-empanelment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/30\/sc-seeks-response-on-%e2%82%b9375-crore-nicsi-tender-dispute-over-onextel-empanelment\/","title":{"rendered":"SC seeks response on \u20b9375 crore NICSI tender dispute over OneXtel empanelment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on Tuesday sought response from the National Informatics Centre Services Inc (NICSI) and others on an appeal by Enterprise communications firm Karix Mobile challenging a letter of empanelment given to its rival OneXtel on \u20b9330-375 crore tender for the implementation of the government\u2019s message gateway services. <\/p>\n<p>At the heart of the dispute is the mandatory Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) Level 3 certification or above, a globally recognised benchmark for process maturity, quality control and service delivery standards in software and IT services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on Tuesday sought response from the National Informatics Centre Services Inc (NICSI) and others on an appeal by Enterprise communications firm Karix Mobile challenging a letter of empanelment given to its rival OneXtel on \u20b9330-375 crore tender for the implementation of the government\u2019s message gateway services. At the heart of the dispute is the mandatory Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) Level 3 certification or above, a globally recognised benchmark for process maturity, quality control and service delivery standards in software and IT services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1005795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1005795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1005808,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005795\/revisions\/1005808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1005795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1005795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1005795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}