17 Firms Qualify for Ayodhya Bypass’ Two Construction Contracts

Seventeen civil engineering firms have qualified for the construction work of 67.57 km long Ayodhya Bypass project on Hybrid Annuity Mode (HAM) after National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) completed technical bid evaluation on Thursday.

This four-six lane expressway consists of 2 packages – 35.40 km Northern Ayodhya Bypass (Package 1) and 32.172 km Southern Ayodhya Bypass (Package 2). Both packages along with a small portion of the operational NH-27 will essentially form a ring road around Ayodhya & Faizabad cities connecting the districts of Lucknow, Basti, and Gonda.

NHAI had invited bids for both packages all the way back in December 2022 with a 2.5 year construction deadline. Technical bids were opened in February 2024 to reveal 16 firms had bid for each package, and evaluation was completed this Thursday.

Note: While both lists below may seem similar, Dilip Buildcon and PNC Infratech bid for Northern Bypass only, while Rail Vikas Nigam Ltd. – SP Singla Constructions JV and Shivalaya Construction bid for Southern Bypass only.

Ayodhya Northern Bypass: 16 Bidders (15 Qualified)

Estimate: Rs. 1386.51 crore

• Adani Enterprises Ltd
• APCO Infratech Pvt Ltd.
• CDS Infra Projects Ltd.
• Ceigall India Ltd. (CIL)
• Dilip Buildcon Ltd. (DBL)
• Dineshchandra R Agrawal Infracon Pvt. Ltd. (DRAIPL)
• Gawar Construction Ltd.
• G R Infraprojects Ltd. (GRIL)
• HG Infra Engineering Ltd. (HGIEL)
• IJM Corporation Berhad
• KCC Buildcon Private Ltd.
• MKC Infrastructure Ltd.
• Oriental Structural Engineers Pvt. Ltd. (OSE)
• PNC Infratech Ltd.
• Vishwa Samudra Engineering Pvt. Ltd. (VSE)
• VRC Constructions (I) Pvt. Ltd. – DISQUALIFIED

NHAI’s Brief Scope: Construction of 4/6 Lane Northern Ayodhya Bypass tot length 35.40 kms Part1 north of NH27 from 0.000 to 30.400 (Starting near 112.540 ending at 139.928 of NH27) and Part2 south of NH27 from 0.000 to 5.000 on HAM under NHDP Ph7 in Uttar Pradesh

Ayodhya Southern Bypass: 16 Bidders (15 Qualified)

Estimate: Rs. 1425.44 crore

• Adani Enterprises Ltd
• APCO Infratech Pvt Ltd.
• CDS Infra Projects Ltd.
• Ceigall India Ltd. (CIL)
• Dineshchandra R Agrawal Infracon Pvt. Ltd. (DRAIPL)
• Gawar Construction Ltd.
• G R Infraprojects Ltd. (GRIL)
• HG Infra Engineering Ltd. (HGIEL)
• IJM Corporation Berhad
• KCC Buildcon Private Ltd.
• MKC Infrastructure Ltd.
• Oriental Structural Engineers Pvt. Ltd. (OSE)
• Rail Vikas Nigam Ltd. – SP Singla Constructions JV
• Shivalaya Construction Co. Pvt. Ltd.
• Vishwa Samudra Engineering Pvt. Ltd. (VSE)
• VRC Constructions (I) Pvt. Ltd. – DISQUALIFIED

NHAI’s Brief Scope: Construction of 4/6 lane Southern Ayodhya Bypass from km. 5.000 to km. 37.172 (starting near km. 112.540, ending at km. 153.281 of NH27) of total length of 32.172 km. on HAM basis under NHDP Ph-VII in the state of Uttar Pradesh

Financial bids are planned to be opened on Tuesday unless the sole disqualified bidder (VRC Constructions) challenges their disqualification and drags the tendering process into oblivion.

Ayodhya Bypass Project was evaluated by India’s Network Planning Group (NPG) in January 2024. Per the government’s PIB press release, “Ayodhya is situated between two economic hubs (Lucknow and Gorakhpur) and major commodities such as leather, engineering goods, building materials, iron and steel, etc. pass through the city therefore the construction of this bypass route will facilitate uninterrupted freight flows and decongest the city.

This bypass which is expected to cater to multiple forecasted increase in passenger and freight vehicle movement (from 89,023 in 2023 and 216,928 in 2033) around eight influence areas around Ayodhya, will also enable seamless movement of people and goods, and reduced travel time to critical national highways (such as NH-27: Lucknow– Ayodhya -Gorakhpur; NH-330A: Raebareli -Ayodhya; NH-330: Sultanpur-Ayodhya-Gonda and NH-135A: Akbarpur -Ayodhya).“

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– TMRG