General

Companies Disqualified from Participating in NTT West's Procurement Process

Please note that suppliers who fall under any of the following conditions are not allowed to participate in the procurement.

1. Those who have been incapacitated and are not able to enter the agreement in question;
2. Those who have been subject to the commencement of bankruptcy proceedings, and who have not yet been reinstated;
3. Those under corporate arrangement, civil rehabilitation, corporate rehabilitation, bankruptcy, liquidation proceedings, or the equivalent;
4. A person prescribed in Article 32 Clause 1 of the Act on the Prevention of Unjust Acts by Organized Crime Group Members (Act No. 77 of 1991);
5. Those who have committed one or more of the following acts within the period stipulated by NTT (in any case, however, not exceeding three years), or those who employ such persons as a proxy, manager, or an employee in another capacity;
   • Intentionally performed poor or faulty work in the manufacturing of any product, or in the provision of any service, when performing a contract, or committed any unfair act with respect to the quality and/or quantity of any product;
   • Conspired to obtain unfair profit in making any tender application or entering into or performing any contract;
   • Interfered with other suppliers making a tender application or entering into or performing a contract;
   • Interfered with, or refused or failed to cooperate with NTT personnel when they were performing an inspection or supervision duty;
   • Failed or refused to enter into or to perform a contract without justifiable reasons;
   • Made a false report or misrepresentation in a tender application procedure, or in entering into or performing a contract;
   • Committed any other unfair act to interfere with competition
6. Those who are deemed to have gained unfair competitive advantages as a result of their involvement in inspection and/or designing for the procurement in question and/or the preparation of technical specifications for the procurement in question.

Handling of Proprietary Information

• No proprietary information provided by a supplier to us or vice versa is to be divulged to any other party, nor used for a purpose other than that for which it is provided, without the express consent of the party providing such information.
• When receiving documents from suppliers, we agree to maintain complete secrecy concerning proprietary information such as patents and know-how when necessary.

Other

• The procurement information must not be disclosed to any third party or used for any purpose other than for that of participating in the procurement process.
• Technical specifications prescribed by us will, when appropriate, be specified in terms of performance rather than design or descriptive characteristics, and based on international standards, when they exist, and otherwise based on national compulsory standards or recognized national standards. We will also give full consideration to using de facto international standards.