18 Firms Qualify for Maharashtra’s New Expressway Projects’ Work

This development is from December and might not be news to some of you, but anyways – eighteen firms in December-end 2023 qualified for the civil construction work of 3 upcoming expressways in Maharashtra.

The 3 new access-controlled highway projects by Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation (MSRDC) include the construction of 179.85 km Jalna – Nanded Expressway, 136.80 km Pune Ring Road, and 126 km Virar – Alibaug Multi-Modal Corridor connecting Navghar – Balavali around Mumbai city.

MSRDC had invited RfQ applications for their civil construction in April 2023 and opened bids in June 2023 to reveal 28 firms had applied to qualify to the next RFP round. Evaluation was completed on December 28, 2023.

Disqualified Bidders (10)

• Ashoka Buildcon Ltd.
• Brij Gopal Construction Co. Pvt. Ltd.
• Dineshchandra R Agrawal Infracon Pvt. Ltd.
• GVPR Engineers Ltd.
• IJM Construction SDN. BHD.
• IRCON International Ltd.
• Joint Stock Company Industrial Association Vozrozhdenie
• KCC Buildcon Pvt. Ltd.
• KNR Constructions Ltd.
• RKC Infrabuilt Pvt. Ltd.

Qualified Bidders (18)

• Afcons Infrastructure Limited
• Apco Infratech Pvt. Ltd.
• BSCPL Infrastructure Ltd.
• Gawar Construction Ltd.
• G R Infraprojects Ltd.
• H.G. Infra Engineering Ltd.
• IRB Infrastructure Developers Ltd.
• J Kumar Infraprojects Ltd.
• Larsen and Toubro Ltd.
• Megha Engineering and Infrastructures Ltd.
• Montecarlo Ltd.
• Navayuga Engineering Company Ltd.
• NCC Ltd.
• Oriental Structural Engineers Pvt. Ltd.
• Patel Infrastructure Ltd.
• PNC Infratech Ltd.
• Roadway Solutions India Infra Ltd.
• Welspun Enterprises Ltd.

Many of these firms were or are currently involved in the construction of 701 km Mumbai – Nagpur Expressway (Samruddhi Mahamarg or ME-2) project.

MSRDC last week issued RFP documents to the 18 qualified firms inviting them to bid for the civil construction of all 3 expressways’ packages. Each package comes with a 900 day construction deadline.

Check out each link for a list of packages and their chainages:

The current bid submission deadline is March 1 with bids planned to be opened on March 4. Unless MSRDC revises the submission deadline, then look out for a post from me around that timeframe.

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– TMRG

Hat-tip: Amey Deshmukh