Bank of Maharashtra is looking for a service provider for transmitting SMSes generated by the bank to its domestic as well as international customers and to receive incoming SMSes from domestic/ international customers. The bank has sought offers from service providers for a solution with facilities for secure authentication system. The bank wants the system to have features like the SMS services should cover the facility like push service and pull service using short code/long code with/without virtual mobile number. It should also have provision to send promotional SMS after scrubbing of DND numbers at the same rate at transactional SMS. The system should also have SMPP and/or HTTPS – API with/ without XML support with multiple accounts for sending messages. This should be the primary channel for and the API should support the encryption-decryption for the entire API parameters supporting DES/ 3DES/ AES algorithm.