{"id":1007282,"date":"2026-05-08T09:58:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T04:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1007282"},"modified":"2026-05-08T10:07:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T04:37:31","slug":"cpaas-providers-cry-foul-seek-cci-intervention-to-scrap-%e2%82%b93100-crore-tender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/08\/cpaas-providers-cry-foul-seek-cci-intervention-to-scrap-%e2%82%b93100-crore-tender\/","title":{"rendered":"CPaaS providers cry foul, seek CCI intervention to scrap \u20b93,100-crore tender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Communications Platform as a Service (CPaaS) providers and telemarketers have sought the Competition Commission of India (CCI) intervention to investigate the &#8216;restrictive conditions&#8217; put forth by the public sector Bank of Baroda for offering bulk messaging services. <\/p>\n<p>The CPaaS providers allege that the public sector bank&#8217;s request for proposal (RFP) violates public procurement norms, contradicting the General Financial Rules (GFR) 2017, and the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) guidelines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Communications Platform as a Service (CPaaS) providers and telemarketers have sought the Competition Commission of India (CCI) intervention to investigate the &#8216;restrictive conditions&#8217; put forth by the public sector Bank of Baroda for offering bulk messaging services. The CPaaS providers allege that the public sector bank&#8217;s request for proposal (RFP) violates public procurement norms, contradicting the General Financial Rules (GFR) 2017, and the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) guidelines.<\/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":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1007282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007282","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=1007282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1007304,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007282\/revisions\/1007304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1007282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1007282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1007282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}