TLL-EVRASCON JV Wins Shudmahadev – Dranga Tunnel’s Contract

Transrail Lighting Ltd – Euro-Asian Construction Corporation (EVRASCON) JV on Friday was declared as the lowest bidder to construct the 8 km Shudmahadev – Dranga Tunnel project by National Highways and Infrastructure Development Corporation (NHIDC).

This project on NH-244 (old NH-1B) in Jammu and Kashmir will consist of 2 tunnels between Chenani – Sudhmahadev – Goha. Along with other new tunnels (see map below), it’ll provide all weather connectivity and drastically shorten the travel time between Anantnag – Khellani.

NHIDC invited tenders for its construction in August 2022 with a Rs. 2598.54 crore estimate and 1460 day (4 year) completion deadline. Technical bids were opened in January to reveal 11 bidders.

Financial Bid Values

Firm	Bid (Rs. Crore)
TLL – Evrascon JV	2098.00
Gawar Construction Ltd.	2234.00
Megha Engineering and Infrastructures Ltd.	2271.12
ABCI Infrastructures Pvt. Ltd.	2323.00
Patel Infrastructure Ltd.	2396.49
Navayuga Engineering Company Ltd.	2460.00
IRCON International Ltd.	2578.21
JMC Projects India Ltd.	2580.00
Larsen & Toubro Ltd.	2696.22
Rail Vikas Nigam Ltd.	3200.10
BK Tek Chand and Sons	Disqualified

Brief Scope: Construction of Uni-directional Sudhmahadev – Dranga Twin Tube Tunnel and its approach roads on Chenani – Sudhmahadev – Goha road including Uni-directional Tunnel-1 and Tunnel 2 on NH-244 in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir

TLL-EVRASCON JV’s bid was 19.26% below NHIDC’s estimate, so a contract should be awarded in the coming weeks without a long financial bid evaluation period.

This is TLL-EVRASCON’s 2nd win this month. Last week, they were declared as the lowest bidder to construct the 10.3 km Singhpora – Vailoo Tunnel project, which lies further north on NH-244 (shown in the map above).

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– TMRG