4 Bidders for Nagpur – Gondia Expressway’s NG-2A Contract

4 civil engineering firms have submitted bids to construct 35.25 km Package NG-2A of 127 km Nagpur – Bhandara – Gondia Expressway project on EPC mode after technical bids were opened on Wednesday.

This 4 lane access-controlled highway project by Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation (MSRDC) in eastern Maharashtra will connect Gavasi village on Nagpur’s Outer Ring Road (roughly 7 km from eastern terminal of the 701 km Mumbai – Nagpur Expressway) with village Sawari, located north of Gondia.

The expressway will be developed via 5 packages: NG-01, NG-02, NG-02A, NG-03 and NG-04). It has been designed with a 100 meter right-of-way (ROW) and a 120 kmph speed limit.

Package NG-2A in Bhandara District will connect km 58+850 (Thana Taluka) with km 94+100 (Jambhalpani in Mohadi Taluka). MSRDC had invited bids for its civil construction in July 2024 with a 2.5 year construction deadline and Rs. 1923.11 crore estimate.

Bidders

• Afcons Infrastructure Ltd.
• IRCON International Ltd.
• Patel Infrastructure Ltd.
• PNC Infratech Ltd.

MSRDC’s Brief Scope: Construction of Nagpur Gondia Access Controlled Expressway in the State of Maharashtra on EPC Mode -PACKAGE NG-2A from km 58 850 Thana Tq. Bhandara to km 94 100 Jambhalpani. Tq. Mohadi Dist. Bhandara Length- 35.250 km

The bids have now been sent for technical evaluation which will take a couple of 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 for each package.

Back in July, Afcons Infrastructure and NCC were declared as the lowest bidders for packages NG-01, NG-02, NG-03 and NG-04. But just like other recent MSRDC-owned expressway contracts, the lowest bids were significantly higher than MSRDC’s estimates – so they’re all currently stuck in the negotiation (financial bid evaluation) stage.

Nagpur – Gondia Expressway is expected to reduce the travel time between both cities to about 2 hours from the current 4-5 hour journey.

Maharashtra’s government plans to develop an impressive 5000 km expressway network in the state. Nagpur – Gondia Expressway is displayed by number 2 below:

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– TMRG