In order to construct the 33.5km-long Colaba-Bandra-SEEPZ metro rail, the Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation (MMRC) has received 31 bids.
Terming the response as "very encouraging", Ashwini Bhide, managing director of MMRC, said, "There are four bidders each for the first four packages and there are 5, 7 and 3 bids for the next three packages respectively."
In all, there are seven packages to construct the entire underground metro corridor. Each of the packages have around 4 to 5 km-long twin-tunnel construction work.
First package has Cuffe Parade, Vidhan Bhavan, Churchgate and Hutatma Chowk, the second has CST Metro, Kalabadevi, Girgaon and Grant Road and the third package consists of Central Metro, Mahalaxmi, Science Museum, Worli and Acharya Atre Chowk. While Siddhivinayak, Dadar, and Sitaladevi is in the fourth package, Dharavi, Bandra Kurla Complex, Vidyanagari and Santa Cruz are in the next. The sixth package has Domestic Airport, Sahar Airport and the International Airport. The final package has Marol Naka, MIDC, SEEPZ and Aarey Depot.
The 31 bids are from various consortia like AFCONS Infrastructure Ltd. - Kyivmetrobud, Continental Engineering Corporation - ITD Cementation India Ltd - Tata Projects Ltd, DOGUS-SOMA, IL&FS Engineering and Construction Company Ltd - China Railway 25th Bureau Group Co.Ltd, J .Kumar Infraprojects Ltd - China Railway No.3 Engineering Group Co. Ltd, Larsen & Toubro Ltd - Shanghai Tunnel Engineering Co. Ltd, OSJC Moscow Metrostroy - Hindustan Construction Co. Ltd, Pratibha Industries Ltd-Guandong Yuantian Engineering Co. and Unity Infraprojects Ltd - IVRCL Ltd - China Railway Tunnel Group Co. Ltd.
"There are nine consortia who have put in multiple bids — that is for multiple packages. Upper limit for each consortium is to bag two packages," shared Bhide.
Even Japanese International Cooperation Agency's (lender for the metro project) approval will be needed before the bids are awarded to private firms. The entire process of scrutiny of proposals and getting approvals will take a minimum of four months to award work.
Construction on this Rs23,136 crore project will commence during the first half of 2016. The Japanese agency will be funding Rs13,235 crore or 57.2 per cent of the project's estimated cost.
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