Ceigall Wins Ayodhya Bypass’ Construction Contracts in UP

Ceigall India Ltd (CIL) was today declared as the lowest bidder for the construction of 67.57 km Ayodhya Bypass project in Uttar Pradesh on Hybrid Annuity Mode (HAM) by National Highways Authority of India (NHAI).

This four-six lane expressway consists of 2 packages – 35.40 km Northern Ayodhya Bypass (Package 1) & 32.172 km Southern Ayodhya Bypass (Package 2), and Ceigall was the lowest bidder for each. 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 last week to reveal a total of 17 firms had qualified through the technical stage to have their financial bids opened.

Ayodhya Northern Bypass’ Results

Estimate: Rs. 1386.51 crore

Firm	Bid (Rs. Crore)
Ceigall India Ltd.	1199.30
KCC Buildcon Private Ltd.	1288.00
MKC Infrastructure Ltd.	1334.96
HG Infra Engineering Ltd.	1366.11
IJM Corporation Berhad	1404.00
Dilip Buildcon Ltd.	1422.00
Dineshchandra R Agrawal Infracon Pvt. Ltd.	1467.00
CDS Infra Projects Ltd.	1468.00
PNC Infratech Ltd.	1521.00
Gawar Construction Ltd.	1527.13
APCO Infratech Pvt Ltd.	1582.00
Adani Enterprises Ltd	1592.55
Oriental Structural Engineers Pvt. Ltd.	1666.50
G R Infraprojects Ltd.	1725.07
Vishwa Samudra Engineering Pvt. Ltd.	1773.00

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’ Results

Estimate: Rs. 1425.44 crore

Firm	Bid (Rs. Crore)
Ceigall India Ltd.	1299.20
KCC Buildcon Private Ltd.	1421.00
MKC Infrastructure Ltd.	1433.91
HG Infra Engineering Ltd.	1483.11
IJM Corporation Berhad	1497.00
Oriental Structural Engineers Pvt. Ltd.	1555.78
Dineshchandra R Agrawal Infracon Pvt. Ltd.	1584.00
Gawar Construction Ltd.	1598.22
CDS Infra Projects Ltd.	1630.58
Adani Enterprises Ltd	1633.48
RVNL – SPSCPL JV	1665.40
APCO Infratech Pvt Ltd.	1675.00
G R Infraprojects Ltd.	1797.97
Vishwa Samudra Engineering Pvt. Ltd.	1818.00
Shivalaya Construction Co. Pvt. Ltd.	1835.00

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

Ceigall’s bids of Rs. 1199.30 crore and Rs. 1299.20 crore were 13.50% and 8.86% lower than NHAI’s estimates so contracts should be awarded in the coming weeks without a long financial bid evaluation period.

As shared last week, 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