Tata Consultancy Services has bagged a five-year e-governance deal to electronically link up all police stations and provide real-time crime and criminal information in Goa.

TCS has received the letter of intent to become the systems integrator responsible to implement the Crime and Criminal Tracking Network and Systems (CCTNS) project. The latter is part of a larger e-governance project that aims to electronically connect 14,000 police stations throughout the country.

A formal contract is expected to be signed between the Goa Police and the country’s largest software firm in the next few weeks, sources in the know said.

TCS’ subsidiary company CMC and Tech Mahindra were the other players in the race for the project. TCS and CMC had bid separately for the project.

Digital database

The systems integrator will assist the police in creating and maintaining digital database on crime and criminals, according to the Department’s Request for Proposal (RFP), a copy of which was seen by Business Line . The system, which will cover all 27 police stations in Goa, can also be accessed by citizens to file their complaints and track the status of their applications.

Once fully operational, the project is expected to make Goa’s police force more effective, thereby reducing crime rates. The RFP states the winning bidder would have to procure and deploy an execution management system that will administer all applications, infrastructure and network-related components related to the project.

The company would also have to provide one trained person per police station for six months, to assist the police staff in using the CCTNS system, according to the RFP.

TCS has already bagged the mandate for implementing CCTNS in Gujarat, Punjab, Andhra Pradesh and Kerala. The project in Gujarat, which was the first state to implement CCTNS, is set to go live in a couple of weeks, sources said.

The first phase of the Goa project would be completed in October, while the second round of rollout is expected to be concluded by March 2014.

Scandinavian Airlines deal

PTI reports: Tata Consultancy Services has bagged a five-year multi-million euros deal from SAS Scandinavian Airlines to help transform and optimise its IT infrastructure.

TCS will implement its propriety cloud-based solutions to simplify and standardise SAS IT landscape and the initiative is a part of the SAS’ “4 Excellence Next Generation” strategy, aimed at improving competitiveness of the SAS Group, TCS said in a statement.

Through this, SAS will tap into TCS’ Aviation and Digital Innovation Labs to develop solutions addressing the needs of the new digital consumer, it added. SAS Scandinavian Airlines is one of Northern Europe’s major airline, with more than 1,100 daily departures to 136 destinations in Scandinavia, Europe, the US and Asia.

TCS has recently been selected for several engagements such as TDC in Denmark, Posten in Norway, Nokia in Finland and SAS in Sweden and the Nordic region at large. Present in the Nordic region since 1991, TCS’ operations in the region comprise over 5,500 professionals working across Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark and Iceland.

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