4 Firms Qualify for Bhopal Metro Line-2’s Package BH-05

Four construction firms (1 in a consortium) today qualified for civil construction contract BH-05 of Bhopal Metro Phase 1 project’s 12.915 km Blue Line (Line-2) which will connect Bhadbhada Chauraha – Ratnagiri Tiraha via 14 elevated stations.

This mega package by Madhya Pradesh Metro Rail Corporation Ltd (MPMRCL) includes the construction of the entire Blue Line’s viaduct, 13 stations, and a ramp leading to Subhash Nagar Depot which will be shared with 14.99 km Orange Line (Karond Circle – AIIMS) for maintaining and stabling 27 Alstom Movia train-sets.  

Bhopal Metro’s Blue Line was earlier designated as the Red Line. Its Bogda Pul Station (interchange with Orange Line) will be built by URC Construction as part of Package BH-03.

MPMRCL had invited bids for the Blue Line’s construction in June 2023 with a Rs. 1121.63 crore estimate and 3 year deadline. Technical bids were opened an entire year ago in October 2023 to reveal 7 bidders, and bid evaluation was completed today to reveal the following results:

Qualified Bidders (4)

• Afcons Infrastructure Ltd.
• Kalpataru – Gulermak JV
• Larsen & Toubro Ltd. (L&T)
• Tata Projects Ltd. (TPL)

Disqualified Bidders (3)

• Dineshchandra R Agrawal Infracon – YFC Projects JV
• J Kumar Infraprojects Ltd. (JKIL)
• Rail Vikas Nigam Ltd. (RVNL)

Package: BH-05

MPMRCL’s Brief Scope: Part Design and Construction of elevated Viaduct, thirteen (13) elevated Metro Rail Stations viz. Bhadbhada Chauraha, Depot Chauraha, Jawahar Chowk, Roshanpura Chauraha, Kushabhau Thakre Hall, Parade Ground, Prabhat Chauraha, Govindpura, Govindpura Industrial Area, JK Road, Indrapuri, Piplani and Ratnagiri Tiraha (excluding an Elevated Passenger Interchange Metro Rail Station), between Chainages 50+000 and 62+915, and access to Depot between Chainages 00+155 and 01+100 for Blue Line for Bhopal Metro Rail Project

MPMRCL took 12 months to complete technical evaluation – an unusually long time by their standards. Since this contract will be financed by the European Investment Bank (EIB) through a €400 million loan, I imagine MPMRCL was awaiting EIB’s approval to finalize evaluation and move to the next stage.

I hear MPMRCL plans to open financial bids of the qualified bidders for this package next Tuesday on October 29, so stay tuned to see who wins!

Package BH-05 is the last major civil contract of Phase 1 that is pending award. A full list of Bhopal Metro’s civil & system packages and their status can be viewed over here.

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– TMRG