GHV Wins Delhi – Mumbai Expressway’s Packages 27 & 28

GHV India on Friday emerged as the lowest bidder for constructing Packages 27 & 28 of the 1350 km Delhi – Mumbai Expressway’s 844 km Sohna – Vadodara section after National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) opened financial bids.

Both roughly 26 km sections of this 8-lane greenfield expressway are located within Gujarat’s Dohad and Panchmahal districts north-east of Vadodara. NHAI invited bids on February 21, 2020 with a 24 month completion deadline, and opened technical bids on December 4.

Package 27

Scope: Construction of 8 Lane access-controlled expressway starting after the end of Bridge over Hadaf River near Hathiyavan village to SH-152 near Matariya Vadi in Panchmahal (Ch.729.700-756.052) of Delhi-Vadodara GA on EPC Mode under BMP in Gujarat

• Contract: NHAI/BM/ Delhi-Vadodara/2018/Pkg27
• Length: 26.352 km
• Bidders: 32 (30 technically qualified)
• NHAI’s estimate: Rs. 874.04 crore

Financial Bid Values of Lowest 5 Technically-Qualified Bidders:

Firm	Bid
GHV	Rs. 719.35 crore
Ashoka	Rs. 747 crore
MKCIL-Evrascon JV	Rs. 749.40 crore
Roadways Solutions	Rs. 786 crore
RKC Infrabuilt	Rs. 786 crore

Package 28

Scope: Construction of 8 Lane access-controlled expressway starting from junction with SH-152 near Matariya Vadi to near Bhamaiya village in Panchmahal district (Ch.756.052-781.282) section of Delhi-Vadodara GA on EPC Mode under BMP in Gujarat

• Contract: NHAI/BM/ Delhi-Vadodara/2018/Pkg28
• Length: 25.23 km
• Bidders: 31 (28 technically qualified)
• NHAI’s Estimate: Rs. 803.29 crore

Financial Bid Values of Lowest 5 Technically-Qualified Bidders:

Firm	Bid
GHV India	Rs. 681.21 crore
Evrascon	Rs. 698.99 crore
NG Projects	Rs. 713 crore
Roadways Solution	Rs. 728 crore
Patel Infra	Rs. 766.62 crore

Prior to this, GHV had won Package 20 between Km 546.890 to Km 572.190 in Madhya Pradesh.

Besides creating an info page for the Delhi – Amritsar – Katra Expressway, this weekend I also created a page for the Delhi – Mumbai Expressway – check it out here. Both can be easily accessed on the menu bar under the ‘Misc’ section.

The entire route has been divided up into 4 sections with a total of 52 civil tenders / packages:

• DND – Faridabad – Sohna: 3 (60 km)
• Sohna – Vadodara: 31 (844 km)
• Vadodara – Virar: 13 (354 km)
• Virar – JNPT: 5 (92 km)

Out of 52 contracts, financial bids of 46 have been opened to assign contractors, most of which have either started or are deep into construction. Bidding is underway for 4 packages (#26 of Sohna – Vadodara, and #14 to #16 of Virar – JNPT) while tender notices are pending for 2 packages (#17 & #18 of Virar – JNPT).

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– TMRG