8 Bidders for Delhi – Katra Expressway’s Package 17 in J&K

Eight firms have submitted bids to construct the 28.92 km Package 17 of the roughly 650 km Delhi – Amritsar – Katra (DAK) Expressway after National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) opened technical bids on Wednesday.

This 4 lane (expandable to 8) greenfield project’s Phase 1 consists of 12 packages for the 397.71 km Delhi – Gurdaspur section and 3 packages for the 99 km Nakodar – Amritsar spur.

Package 17 in Jammu & Kashmir is part of Phase 2 connecting Gurdaspur – Pathankot – Jammu – Katra. It consists of 2 disjointed parts – a 13.3 km brownfield section of NH-44 which will be upgraded between Kunjwani and Sidhra and a 15.62 km greenfield section between Domel and Katra.

Its Detailed Project Report (DPR) was prepared by Feedback Infra, and NHAI invited bids for its construction in January 2022 under the Hybrid Annuity Model (HAM) model with a 730 day (2 year) deadline.

Bidders

• Adani Enterprises Ltd.
• APCO Infratech Pvt Ltd.
• Dineshchandra R Agrawal Infracon Pvt. Ltd.
• Gawar Construction Ltd.
• HG Infra Engineering Ltd.
• Megha Engineering and Infrastructures Ltd.
• Montecarlo Ltd.
• Vishwa Samudra Engineering Private Ltd.

Brief Scope: Development of 4-6-lane Access Control Exp. from Design Chainage Km515.000-Km528.300 (Kunjwani to Sidhra Section of NH-44) and from Design Chainage Km550.900-Km566.520 (Domel to Katra Section) on HAM under BMP in the UT of JK.(Phase-II-PKG-XVII)

The bids have now been sent for technical bid evaluation which can take a couple months to complete. When that is done, the financial bids of the technically qualified bidders will be opened to reveal who’s the lowest bidder and most likely contractor.

A tender notice for Package 13’s construction near Gurdaspur is still pending. A list of this expressway’s 17 packages and their contractors / status can be viewed here.

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– TMRG