diff --git a/nemo/collections/llm/api.py b/nemo/collections/llm/api.py
index a27829412fe3..d030eb88863c 100644
--- a/nemo/collections/llm/api.py
+++ b/nemo/collections/llm/api.py
@@ -41,7 +41,6 @@
 from nemo.utils import logging
 from nemo.utils.get_rank import is_global_rank_zero
 
-
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
     from megatron.core.inference.common_inference_params import CommonInferenceParams
     from megatron.core.inference.inference_request import InferenceRequest
@@ -325,7 +324,7 @@ def ptq(
 def deploy(
     nemo_checkpoint: Path = None,
     model_type: str = "llama",
-    triton_model_name: str = 'triton_model',
+    triton_model_name: str = "triton_model",
     triton_model_version: Optional[int] = 1,
     triton_port: int = 8000,
     triton_http_address: str = "0.0.0.0",
@@ -377,22 +376,22 @@ def deploy(
         output_generation_logits (bool): If True builds trtllm engine with gather_generation_logits set to True.
         generation_logits are used to compute the logProb of the output token. Default: True.
     """
-    from nemo.collections.llm import deploy
+    from nemo.collections.llm.deploy.base import get_trtllm_deployable, unset_environment_variables
     from nemo.deploy import DeployPyTriton
 
-    deploy.unset_environment_variables()
+    unset_environment_variables()
     if start_rest_service:
         if triton_port == rest_service_port:
             logging.error("REST service port and Triton server port cannot use the same port.")
             return
         # Store triton ip, port and other args relevant for REST API as env vars to be accessible by rest_model_api.py
-        os.environ['TRITON_HTTP_ADDRESS'] = triton_http_address
-        os.environ['TRITON_PORT'] = str(triton_port)
-        os.environ['TRITON_REQUEST_TIMEOUT'] = str(triton_request_timeout)
-        os.environ['OPENAI_FORMAT_RESPONSE'] = str(openai_format_response)
-        os.environ['OUTPUT_GENERATION_LOGITS'] = str(output_generation_logits)
+        os.environ["TRITON_HTTP_ADDRESS"] = triton_http_address
+        os.environ["TRITON_PORT"] = str(triton_port)
+        os.environ["TRITON_REQUEST_TIMEOUT"] = str(triton_request_timeout)
+        os.environ["OPENAI_FORMAT_RESPONSE"] = str(openai_format_response)
+        os.environ["OUTPUT_GENERATION_LOGITS"] = str(output_generation_logits)
 
-    triton_deployable = deploy.get_trtllm_deployable(
+    triton_deployable = get_trtllm_deployable(
         nemo_checkpoint,
         model_type,
         triton_model_repository,
@@ -513,7 +512,7 @@ def evaluate(
     from nemo.collections.llm import evaluation
 
     # Get tokenizer from nemo ckpt. This works only with NeMo 2.0 ckpt.
-    tokenizer = io.load_context(nemo_checkpoint_path + '/context', subpath="model").tokenizer
+    tokenizer = io.load_context(nemo_checkpoint_path + "/context", subpath="model.tokenizer")
     # Wait for rest service to be ready before starting evaluation
     evaluation.wait_for_rest_service(rest_url=f"{url}/v1/health")
     # Create an object of the NeMoFWLM which is passed as a model to evaluator.simple_evaluate
@@ -521,10 +520,14 @@ def evaluate(
         model_name, url, tokenizer, max_tokens_to_generate, temperature, top_p, top_k, add_bos
     )
     results = evaluator.simple_evaluate(
-        model=model, tasks=eval_task, limit=limit, num_fewshot=num_fewshot, bootstrap_iters=bootstrap_iters
+        model=model,
+        tasks=eval_task,
+        limit=limit,
+        num_fewshot=num_fewshot,
+        bootstrap_iters=bootstrap_iters,
     )
 
-    print("score", results['results'][eval_task])
+    print("score", results["results"][eval_task])
 
 
 @run.cli.entrypoint(name="import", namespace="llm")
diff --git a/nemo/collections/llm/evaluation/base.py b/nemo/collections/llm/evaluation/base.py
index b1734d6f4d43..f8f6639e3f3c 100644
--- a/nemo/collections/llm/evaluation/base.py
+++ b/nemo/collections/llm/evaluation/base.py
@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ def generate_until(self, inputs: list[Instance]):
         return results
 
 
-def wait_for_rest_service(rest_url, max_retries=60, retry_interval=2):
+def wait_for_rest_service(rest_url, max_retries=600, retry_interval=2):
     """
     Wait for REST service to be ready.