CMRL invites bids for building underground stations

Chennai Metro Rail Ltd. (CMRL) has invited bids to build 29 underground stations of Chennai's new 45.81 km Line-3 which will connect Madhavaram and SIPCOT in the 118.9 km Chennai Metro Phase 2 project. These stations of the line's 26.7 km underground section between Madhavaram Milk Colony and Taramani Road Junction will be built through 5 civil packages, UG-01 to UG-05, and financed by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). The brief scope of each package indicates that the contractor(s) will be responsible for the entire civil work at 21 stations and partial civil work at 8 stations. Those 8 stations with partial work and approximately 21 km long twin tunnels (total 42 km) connecting all 29 stations will be built as part of Packages TU-01 and TU-02, and for that CMRL has received 8 bids (2 each) from Gulermak, Larsen & Toubro (L&T), STEC-WH JV and Tata Projects (TPL). In the Package UG-01, the Scope of the work includes the construction of five underground stations at Thapalpetti, Moolakadai, Sembiyam, Perambur Market and Perambur Metro and Crossover at Sembiyam and works other than diaphragm wall of two underground stations at Madhavaram Milk Colony and Murari. In the Package UG-02, the scope of the work covers the construction of four (04) underground stations at Otteri, Pattalam, Perambur Barracks Road and Kellys and works other than diaphragm wall of two underground stations at Ayanavaram & Puraisaiwakkam High Road cum Crossover Box and will consist of civil work at 4 stations and partial works at 2 stations.