Simplex Emerges Lowest Bidder for Ahmedabad’s Shreyas-Ranip Stretch

The missing middle piece of Ahmedabad Metro’s 18.522 km north-south line connecting Motera with Gyaspur has finally been filled. On this past Friday, Simplex Infrastructures emerged as the lowest bidder for the elevated line’s 8.94 km Shreyas – Ranip stretch after the Metro-Link Express for Gandhinagar & Ahmedabad (MEGA) opened the financial bids submitted by different infrastructure companies for its construction. The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has also approved Simplex’s appointment and MEGA will now hand over the Letter of Award (LoA) to Simplex within the next 2 weeks.

MEGA had invited bids for the construction of this ‘mid-section’ package in February 2016 and only 2 firms, Simplex Infrastructure and Afcons Infrastructure, qualified through the pre-qualification & technical bid stages, and onward to the (last) financial bid stage. Whenever the financial bid values are available, I’ll update this post.

Update: Simplex’s Bid: Rs. 724 crore

This stretch consists of 6 elevated stations at Paldi, Gandhigram, Old High Court (Interchange with the 20.737 km East-West line), Usmanpura, Vijaynagar and Vadaj. Interestingly, Simplex Infrastructures will also be tasked with constructing a vehicular underpass at Paldi Station.

Alignment from Shreyas to Ranip - view Ahmedabad Metro map and information

Alignment from Shreyas to Ranip – view Ahmedabad Metro map and information

Ground-work is expected to begin in March and I expect this section to open no sooner than 2022.

With this news, now only 1 more contractor is left to be assigned on the entire north-south line:

Package Contractor Status
Gyaspur Depot Gannon Dunkerley & Co – PSP JV Under Construction
Gyaspur – Shreyas IL&FS Engineering Under Construction
Shreyas – Ranip Simplex Infrastructure Financial Bids Opened
Ranip – Motera (viaduct) Ranjit Buildcon Under Construction
Ranip – Motera (stations) Yet to be Assigned Bidding in Progress

Phase 1’s Status

Green: Under Construction (viaduct & stations) | Orange: Under Construction (viaduct only) | Red: Financial Bids Opened | Black: Financial Bids yet to be opened

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Construction Status of Ahmedabad Metro’s Phase 1

Financial bids for the east-west line’s 8.21 km Thaltej Gam – Shahpur (West Ramp) section are going to be opened this week. Stay tuned to find out who’s the lowest bidder for that!

For more updates, check out the Ahmedabad section of The Metro Rail Guy!

– TMRG

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12 Responses to "Simplex Emerges Lowest Bidder for Ahmedabad’s Shreyas-Ranip Stretch"

  1. Prathimesh says:

    Will entire Phase 1 be under construction by mid 2017?

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  2. Rahul Kashyap says:

    I think ranip Motera should be ready for in 3 years now

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  3. Nishant Patel says:

    When Ahmedabad metro going to start operation ?

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  4. Abhishek says:

    I think it may start around mid of 2018

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  5. Thkkr says:

    What about the vadaj to ranip metro project.. is there any change on brts bus stands??

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    • TMRG says:

      Not that I know of. But looking at how, this line overlaps with the BRTS line, they might relocate some of them for better interconnections. Let’s see.

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