% 19.05.2015
1.The challenge in the present petition under Section 34 of the Arbitration & Conciliation Act, 1996 („Act‟) is to an award dated 27 th August, 2014 passed by the Sole Arbitrator in the disputes in between the Petitioner Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited („MTNL‟) and the Respondent M/s HCL Infotech Limited („HCL‟).
2. The background to the present petition is that MTNL issued a tender notice dated 24th September, 2009 inviting bids for supply of equipments, installation, testing, operation, management, commissioning and making over the communication infrastructure for the Common Wealth Games 2010 (CWG 2010) to MTNL, Delhi on a turnkey basis. The work also involved decommissioning the system/equipments and redeploying and integrating them with MTNL‟s existing IP/MPLS (Multi Protocol Label Switches) network in Delhi and Mumbai.