CRIS – Centre for Railway Information Systems

CRIS – Centre for Railway Information Systems

• IT Arm of Indian Railways

• Initially established as Central Organisation for Computerization of freight operations in 1982.

• CRIS was set up as Society in 1986 (an autonomous organisation)

• Hqrs: New Delhi

• Headed by MD – Managing Director

• Regional Offices: New Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai, Chennai and Secunderabad.

• Staff – 800 approx

• Planning to set up a State of the art Data Centre to house the Indian Railways IT System.  

• Foray into International projects by entering into an MOU with a sister organization of another national Railway.

• Chairman: Shri Piyush Goyal, Minister of Railways.

• Members: 12 (includes CRB, FC, Member Traffic, Member, Traction, MD/CRIS) 

• Approximately 50 projects are on hand at CRIS

Successful projects so far 

1. PRS – Passenger Reservation System

2. UTS –Unreserved Ticketing System

3. FOIS – Freight Operations Information System

4. COA – Control Office Application

5. CMS – Crew Management System 

 

Projects at a Glance 

Ticketing & Passenger Services 

1. PRS – Passenger Reservation System

2. NGet – Next Generation e-Ticketing

3. UTS – Unreserved Ticketing System

4. NTES – National Train Enquiry System

5. Rates Branch System

6. Indian Railways Web Portal

7. Web enabled Claims and Refunds

8. PMS – Parcel Management System

9. Handheld Terminal Project for TTEs

10. PRS Data warehouse

11. CMS – Coaching Maintenance Management

12. NGeT Journey Planner 

Freight and Operations 

1. FOIS – Freight Operations Information System

2. ICMS – Integrated Coaching Management System

3. COA – Control Office Application

4. CMS – Crew Management System

5. RTIS – Realtime Train Information System

6. Satsang

7. Freight Maintenance Management

8. Railnet Peering Project 

Resource Management 

1. IREPS – Indian Railway E-Procurement System

2. AIMS – Accounting Information Management System

3. RPF Security Management System

Asset management 

1. TMS – Track Management System

2. WISE – Workshop Information System

3. EEMS – Electrical Energy Management System

4. TDMS – Traction Distribution Management System

5. Automatic Wagon Identification using RFID

6. Geographical Information System

7. SMMS – Signalling Maintenance Management System

8. SLAM – Software for Locomotive Asset Management 

Infrastructure 

1. Locoshed Management System

2. Network Management System for UTN & FOIS

3. ICF ERP Project

Miscellaneous 

1. Enhanced Coaching Refund System

2. SMS Gateway for IR

3. IRPSM – Indian Railways Projects Sanction & Management

4. ROIS – Railway Officers Information System

5. Reference and File Management System

6. RORACS – Rail-Road Crossing GAD Approval System

7. RESS - Railway Employee Self Service

8. Comprehensive Payroll Processing System

9. PSAMS – Private Siding Approval & Monitoring System

Final conclusion is: It is high time to ponder about the Single Software Program covering all the above activities for seamless flowing of all data across all the Departments and all the staff at one go by calling Global Tenders or the Project can be taken up by CRIS itself. (like Infosys’s Finacle Core Banking software for Major Banking organizations in the World like SBI) 

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PVC - Price Variation Clause - Gcc for Works

 

     PVC – Price Variation Clause - Works

Source: 46A of GCC for works

Purpose: 

● To resolve the conflicts between Contractors and Railway due to variations in prices

● To protect the interests of Contractors as well as Railways against the rising and declining prices of components of the Contract respectively.  

Applicability: Contract agreement value is Rs. 2 Crores or more.   (Not Tender Value)

● However the authority competent to accept the tender or SAG officer of the Executive Dept,  whichever is higher may decide that PVC shall not be applied to the contract’s Agreement value of Rs. 2 Crores or more 

OR 

• that PVC shall apply to the contract’s Agreement value of less than 2 Crores also. Such a decision should be taken with the concurrence of associated finance and the same should be incorporated in the Special Conditions of Contract before issuance of NIT – Notice  Inviting Tender. 

  

Example: Estimated value of Tender is Rs. 2.50 Crores (as per NIT). But if the value of the  Contract as per the Contract Agreement is Rs. 1.75 Crores, then PVC shall not apply, even if the actual final value is Rs.2 Crores or more due to variation in quantities during the execution of the Contract. 

• Thus variation in quantities after the signing of the Contract  Agreement is not relevant for deciding whether PVC is applicable to a Contract or not. 

● PVC shall not be applicable to a Works Contract which is either an AMC or a Zonal Contract.   

● PVC shall not be admissible for the following items  

1. Specific payments to consultants. 

2. Materials supplied by the Railways to the Contractor, either Free or at a fixed rate.  

3. Fixed component i.e., 15 %  

4. Any extra NS items included in the subsequent variation falling outside the purview of the Bill(s) of quantities of tender, under clause 39(1)(b) of these Standard GCC i.e., other than SSOR items, unless applicability of PVC and Base Month has been specially agreed while fixing the rates of such extra item(s) 

● Base Month: Shall be taken as the one month prior to the closing of the Tender unless otherwise stated elsewhere.  

Example 1: 5th July 2022 is Tender Closing Date. In this case, June 2022 is the Base month.  

● Base Quarter: Shall commence from the month following the Base month.  

In the above Example: The Base Quarter is July to September 2022.  

● The Price Variation shall be based on the average Price Index of the Quarter under consideration. 

● Fixed component @15% shall not be considered for any price variation.  

● Formulae for Labour component :  

 W x (Lq – Lb) x Lc 

 L =         ___________ ___ 

                                      Lb 100 

Where  

L = Amount of price variation in Labour 

 

W= Gross value of Work (excludes: Specific payments to consultants, material supplied by Railways either free or fixed price, the Price value of Steel & Cement)  

Lq= Consumer price index number for Industrial workers – All India published by RBI for the Average price index of the 3 months of the Quarter under consideration.  

Lb= Consumer price index number for Industrial workers – All India published by RBI for the Base period. Lc= % of Labour component 

PVC – Extended period of Contract 

1. PVC is applicable if an extension is granted vide Clause 17-A of Standard GCC. (Due to delay on the part of Railways) 

2. PVC is not applicable if an extension is granted vide Clause 17-B of Standard GCC. (Due to delay  on the part of the Contractor ) But if PVC is favourable to the Railways, that is the rates under consideration are decreased, then the PVC is applicable even under the extension granted vide clause 17-B of Standard GCC. 

MCQ - Takeaways: 

1. PVC stands for Price Variation Clause 

2. Clause 46A of GCC for Works 

3. Applicable for Contract Agreement Value Rs. 2 Crores and above. (Not Tender Value)  

4. Fixed component - 15%

5. PVC is not applicable for AMC and Zonal Contracts 

6. PVC not admissible - Components of 

1. Payments to Consultants

2. Fixed Component i.e., 15%

3. Materials supplied by the Railways to the Contractor, either Free or at a Fixed price.

4. Any Extra NS items (other than SSOR items)

7.  Base Month: One month prior to the closing of the Tender

8. Base Quarter: Commence from the month following the Base Month. 

9.  Price Variation Basis - The Average Price Index of the Quarter under consideration. 

10. PVC applicable - Extended Period on account of Railways 

11. PVC applicable - Extended Period on account of Contractor - Declining the Price only. That is favourable to the Railways 

12. PVC is not applicable - Extended Period on account of Contractor - Increasing the Prices.

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