MINDTREE bags first UID project.

Mind tree the Banglore based company has bagged the appl development servics segment of the Nandan Nilekani-headed Unique Identification (UID) project, renamed as ‘Aadhaar’.

Well this multi-crore project will be a fruitful thing to the employees as this has got complete application lifecycle and also supporting the UID application to providie help desk services from the UIDAI’s (Unique Identification Authority of India) Bangalore Technology Centre.

Mindtree will be expected to work as a development partener to build the UID application, in collaboration with the technology team of UIDAI and other stakeholders. It will also be expected to carry out the ongoing services of development and enhancement to the core UIDAI application.

The interesting thing about this bidding is ,Indian software giants like TCS, INFY and HCl has been eliminated as these companies lost out on ‘technical’ grounds.

Other strong contenders for this bid were Accenture and IBM.The final bid placed by Mindtree is 20 crore.