L&T, Tata & DRA Win Chennai Metro’s 29 Underground Station Work

Larsen & Toubro, Tata Projects and Dineshchandra R Agrawal Infracon today emerged as the lowest bidders for 5 underground station packages (UG01 to UG05) of Chennai’s new 45.81 km Line-3 after Chennai Metro Rail Ltd (CMRL) opened financial bids.

L&T scored 3 packages (UG03, UG04, UG05) with 16 stations between KMC to Taramani Road Junction, while Tata Projects and DRA Infracon bagged one package each with 7 (UG01) and 6 (UG02) stations respectively.

Line-3 of the 118.9 km Chennai Metro Phase 2 project will connect Madhavaram Milk Colony and SIPCOT via 49 stations. Within that, 29 stations between Madhavaram and Taramani Road Junction will be built underground and connected to each other by tunneling packages TU-01 and TU-02, which were awarded to Tata Projects and Larsen & Toubro in May 2021.

CMRL invited tenders for all 5 station packages in November 2020 with deadlines ranging between 4 to 4.7 years. Technical bids were opened in July to reveal the same 3 firms had submitted a total of 13 bids.

The brief scope of each indicates the contractor(s) will be responsible for entire civil works at 21 stations and partial civil works at 8 stations. Note: DRA might have bid in a JV with Hindustan Construction Company

Package UG-01 (Madhavaram to Perambur)

Financial Bid Values:

FirmBid (Rs. Crore)
Tata Projects1294.13
L&T1490.17
DRA Infracon1552.02

This package with a 1460 day (4 year) completion deadline includes entire civil work at 5 stations and partial works at 2 stations.

Brief Scope: Construction of five (05) 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

Package UG-02 (Ayanavaram to Kellys)

Financial Bid Values:

FirmBid (Rs. Crore)
DRA Infracon1479.00
L&T1510.27
Tata Projects1536.23

This package with a 1550 day completion deadline includes entire civil work at 4 stations and partial works at 2 stations. A proposed station at Doveton Junction was dropped.

Brief Scope: 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

Package UG-03 (KMC to Royapettah)

Financial Bid Values:

FirmBid (Rs. Crore)
L&T1872.00
Tata Projects1975.28

This package with a 1725 day (4.7 years) completion deadline includes entire civil work at 5 stations and partial works at 2 stations. The new station-box at KMC (Kilpauk) will form an interchange with the 22 km Green Line (Line-2) which connects Chennai Central and St. Thomas Mount, while a new station box at Thousand Lights will form an interchange with the 23.10 km Blue Line (Line-1) which currently connects Chennai Airport and Washermanpet.

Brief Scope: Construction of five (05) underground stations at KMC, Sterling Road Junction, Nangambakkam, Gemini, Thousand Lights and Thousand Lights Crossover and works other than diaphragm wall of two underground stations at Royapettah Govt. Hospital & Chetpet Metro

CMRL’s official Phase 2 map with my edits showcasing the northern most station of each package – view Phase 2 info & route map

Package UG-04 (Radhakrishnan to Adyar Junction)

Financial Bid Values:

FirmBid (Rs. Crore)
L&T1944.00
Tata Projects2040.17

This package with a 1725 day (4.7 years) completion deadline includes entire civil work at 4 stations with partial works at 1 station (Greenways). Thirumayilai will serve as an interchange with Phase 2’s new 26.09 km Line-4 (Light House – Poonamallee Bus Depot).

Brief Scope: Construction of five (05) underground stations at Radhakrishanan Salai Jn, Thirumayilai Metro, Mandaiveli, Greenways Road (with part diaphragm wall), Adyar Jn and two cross passage shafts and one emergency escape shaft

  • Completion Period: 1725 days (4.7 years)
  • Bids Received: 2

Package UG-05 (Adyar Depot – Taramani Link Road Ramp)

Financial Bid Values:

FirmBid (Rs. Crore)
L&T1062.00
Tata Projects1085.30
DRA Infracon1096.04

This package with a 1725 day (4.7 year) completion deadline includes entire civil work at 3 stations, partial works at 1 station and one ramp leading to the elevated section towards SIPCOT.

Brief Scope: Construction of three (03) underground stations at Adyar Depot, Indira Nagar and Taramani Road Jn and Ramp and works other than diaphragm wall of underground station station Thiruvanmiyur Metro

CMRL’s estimate for all 5 packages is unknown to me, so it’s impossible to gauge how the lowest bids are placed and the chances of LOAs getting issued.

If awarded, Tata Projects will be handling all tunneling works for TU-01 (Venugopal Nagar to Kellys) and build half of its stations on UG01, while L&T will have a sweet overlap between tunneling package TU-02 and the 16 stations en route between KMC to Taramani Road Junction (UG03 to UG05).

A list of Phase 2’s civil & system packages and their status can be viewed here.

For more updates, check out the Chennai section or my Home Page!

– TMRG

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Global traveler who prefers mass rapid transit

27 Responses to "L&T, Tata & DRA Win Chennai Metro’s 29 Underground Station Work"

  1. rupal says:

    why havent u updated the gc contract which has been won by aecom

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    • TMRG says:

      Is that confirmed? All I’ve seen is a short message floating around.

      Let’s connect – themetrorailguy at gmail

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      • Vedanth says:

        Please update with a table or map in which section who is doing station , who is doing tunnel and who is GC fo cmrl projects

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  2. Nisanth says:

    Hey TMRG ,

    POONAMALEE DEPOT lowest bidder seems to be ALTIS HOLDING CORPORATION JV.
    Please publish an article relating to that.
    All the news have reported that.

    Reply
  3. RP says:

    Total 9 contracts for L&T so far?

    Reply
  4. Prakash says:

    When will kucthery road station work begin

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  5. Bounce says:

    DRC who have never seen a tbm how can they score a project in here , Moreover key players like ITD , AFCONS ,HCC were disqualified

    Reply
  6. Krishna Kumar says:

    Meenakshi College Station ???

    Reply
  7. Prasanchand says:

    Hi when start work thousands light metro station?

    Reply
  8. Saran Prasad says:

    A station at Ambattur would have been nice

    Reply
  9. Aakash says:

    Hi Sir, plz provide updates on various ongoing Expressway projects. Not getting any update since long. TIA.

    Reply
  10. Kalidas says:

    When will the METRO project from AIRPOT to VANDALUR likely to begin. It’s TN Chief Minister’s dream project I suppose

    Reply
  11. davidjosephpaulraj says:

    Do you have a station at Venugopal nagar in Madhavaram

    Reply
  12. Padma kumar Kumar says:

    Sir,we want metro train from ambattur to Poonamallee via Avadi, thirumullaivoyil, Surapet, redhills,paruthipattu,kaduvetti,govardhanagiri,oragadam,pudhur,kallikuppam

    Reply
  13. Sakthivel Ganesan says:

    When will the Vandalur Airport metro work will start. Is there any possibility to extend the same to Chengelpet.

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  14. Naresh Chandru says:

    Hello sir, chennai metro info and route map page is not opening.. see to it
    – thank you😊

    Reply
  15. Anand Asir A says:

    @Naresh Chandru
    Even I had this issue in mobile. Used desktop site Option in browser. Try it may work

    Reply
  16. Mohamed Vasim says:

    Thirumazhisai DPR by Aecom…no updates…pls post abt this

    Reply
  17. furiosa says:

    tmrg, any update on remaining civil contracts for line 3 and 5? i think only 4 are pending (two elevated corridors in line 3, combined depot and line 5 UG section)

    Reply

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