NHSRCL floats tender for bullet train project

The National High Speed Rail Corporation Ltd (NHSRCL) has floated the third tender for the government's ambitious Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train project for construction of civil and building works between Vadodara and Ahmedabad. The tender is a lump sum contract, under which a single price for all the works is agreed ahead of the commencement of the work. The tender is for design and construction of civil and building works including testing and commissioning on design build lump sum price basis for double line high speed railway involving viaduct and bridges, crossing bridges, maintenance depot and a station between Vadodara and Ahmedabad, NHSRCL said in a statement that the work will cover one elevated station of Anand/Nadiad' spanning a distance of approximately 90 km. Bids can be submitted within a period of four months and the completion period of the work has been pegged at 1370 days. It further added that more than 66 percent of the land required for the above mentioned tender has been acquired. With the third tender, NHSRCL has invited bids for the construction of about 69 percent (348 km) of total alignment of 508 km, including 21 km of underground tunnel, 5 elevated stations and one depot at Surat.