SYSTRA-RITES-DB JV Wins Hyderabad Metro Airport Line’s General Consultant Contract

SYSTRA – RITES – DB Engineering JV has been declared as the preferred bidder for the General Consultant (GC) contract of Hyderabad Metro’s 31 km Airport Express Line.

This semi high-speed rail line will connect Mindspace Junction with Rajiv Gandhi International Airport via 10 stations and be developed under Hyderabad Metro’s Phase 2 project by Hyderabad Airport Metro Ltd (HAML).

Per HAML’s MD’s tweet last night, SYSTRA – RITES – DB consortium recorded the highest technical score and also placed the lowest financial bid at Rs. 98.54 crore to beat 4 other consortia for the GC contract.

HAML had invited expression of interest (EOI cum RfQ) in December 2022 with a 36 month assignment period which received applications from 5 consortia. In January 2023, the same 5 bidders were invited to submit bids in the the RfP (Request for Participation) round.

I don’t have technical scores, financial bid values or final total scores of all bidders. If someone does, then leave a comment below or shoot me a message via the Contact page. I’d like to add it in here for record keeping.

Bidder Recap

• AECOM India + Egis Rail + Egis India
• Ayesa + Nippon Koei + Aarvee Associates
• Consulting Engineers Group + Korea National Railway
• SYSTRA + RITES + DB Engineering  
• TYPSA + PINI Group

This mostly elevated line along Hyderabad’s Outer Ring Road (ORR) will run on an elevated viaduct for 28.5 km and underground for 2.5 km at the airport within Hyderabad Aerocity. It is expected to cover the distance from Gachibowli in the city to RGIA in 20 minutes with trains operating at a maximum speed of 120 kmph.

10 stations (9 elevated & 1 underground) will be built at Mindspace, Raidurg, Biodiversity, Nanakramguda, Narasingi, TSPA Junction, Rajender Nagar, Shamshabad Junction, Airport Cargo and RGIA Terminal (only underground station).

SYSTRA – RITES – DB’s assignment is expected to speed up the line’s implementation through assistance in design, supervision, safety, quality control and contract management. Their first task will be to prepare construction tender documents for selecting the line’s civil contractors.

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– TMRG

Hat-tip: @phoenixnfalcon on Twitter