Afcons is lowest bidder for ₹2,029-cr metro stretch

Afcons Infrastructure emerged as the lowest bidder in the DMRC’s financial bidding to construct a 6.51 km section of 23.622km long silver line of Delhi Metro Phase-4 entailing an investment of ₹2029 crore. The silver line runs from Tughlakabad to Delhi-Aerocity for which a total of six bidders had applied for a tender for the Contract package DC-09, which was invited in May 2021.

The Scope of work includes the construction of the Underground Ramp and Underground stations, namely, Chhatarpur, Chhatarpur Mandir, Neb Sarai and IGNOU and the project also involved the design and construction of Twin Tunnel by Shield TBM. The project commands a completion period of 42 months. Now the selected bids will be sent for the final evaluation. Afcons Infrastructure emerged as the lowest bidder in the other two contract packages and DMRC has not yet issued a letter of acceptance to the firm for the project, which commands a completion deadline of work by 2025.