Ahmedabad Metro Update: GMRC invites tender for supply of 30 Nos. of Standard Gauge Cars for Phase- 2

April 27, 2022 Rail News, Tender

The Gujarat Metro Rail Corporation (GMRC) has invited sealed Bids from the eligible Bidders for the “Design, Manufacture, Supply, Testing, Commissioning and Training of 30 nos. of Standard Gauge Cars for Ahmedabad Metro Rail Phase-II Project”.

  • Tender No: GMRC/RS3
  • Name of Work: Design, Manufacture, Supply, Testing, Commissioning and Training of 30 nos. of Standard Gauge Cars for Ahmedabad Metro Rail Phase-II Project
  • Document Sale: 27/04/2022 to 13/06/2022
  • Pre-Bid Date: 12/05/2022
  • Submission upto:13/06/2022
  • Opening Date: 13/06/2022

Notes: 

  • The ‘Bidder’ would include Joint Venture/ Consortium submitting the bid as well as members of such Joint Venture/ Consortium.
  • For a consortium/JV the credentials (Technical as well as Financial) of all the member(s)having a minimum 15% participation each in JV / consortium will be required to be submitted by the bidder and shall be considered for evaluation. In case of Net Worth, Liquidity & Turnover, the financial credentials will be considered based on the summation of weighted credential of individual members in proportionate to their share in JV/Consortium. In case of consortiums/JV between companies with subsidiaries, the consolidated numbers of the parent company will only be considered. However, in case of technical eligibility, the credentials will be based on the algebraic aggregated credentials of each member. The credential (Technical as well as Financial) of a member who has a less than 15% participation in JV/Consortium shall not be considered.
  • For the participation by Subsidiary company/Parent company with credentials of other Company:
    • Bidder in the capacity of a Subsidiary as a single entity is not permitted to use the credential of its Parent Company and/or its sister Subsidiary Company/Companies unless the Bidder participates in bid as JV/Consortium with its Parent Company and/or its sister Subsidiary Company/Companies as a member(s) in JV with minimum 15% participation each for such member(s).
    • Also Bidder in the capacity of a Parent Company as a single entity is not permitted to use the credential of its Subsidiary Company / Companies unless the Bidder participates in bid as JV/Consortium with its Subsidiary Company / Companies as a member(s) in JV/Consortium with minimum 15% participation each for such member(s).
  • However, in case of consortium/JV between companies and their subsidiaries where either the parent or the subsidiary or both is/are (an) Indian company/ companies registered in India, parent company shall be eligible to bid on the basis of credentials of their owned subsidiaries. Subsidiaries shall be eligible to bid on the basis of credentials of their parent company. 
  • Here it will be mandatory that the bidders must enter into a consortium/JV agreement with a token participation of such parent/ subsidiary whose credentials are being sought to be used. This consortium/JV agreement should clearly stipulate that the individual companies i.e. the parent and the JV) shall be jointly and severally responsible and liable for the timely execution of the contract and failure to do so will make all the them liable to the penal conditions of the contract in such case there will be no requirement of the minimum threshold of 15% participation by each member of the consortium/JV.
  • The bidder as stipulated at clause 1.4.1 above, should have performed the train integration as well as interface with other systems like signalling, telecom.

About the Project:

  • The Ahmedabad Metro Rail Project Phase-II, having one corridor with a combined  length (including Extension) of 26.91 km which include 22.838 km from Motera Stadium to Mahatma Mandir (Corridor-1) and 5.416 km from GNLU to GIFT City (Corridor-2). 
  • Corridor-1 has 20 stations and Corridor-2 has two stations along the route. All stations are elevated. 
  • The Surat Metro Rail project Phase I, having two metro rail corridors with a combined length of 40.35 km. 
  • Total 38 stations are proposed consisting of elevated and underground stations. First corridor is proposed from Sarthana to Dream city Line.
  • The length of this corridor will be 21.61 km of which 6.47 km would be underground and the rest 15.14 km will be elevated. 
  • Second corridor is  from Bhesan to Saroli. 
  • The length of this corridor will be 18.74 km, and will be completely elevated. 
  • The Gujarat Metrorail Corporation (GMRC) Limited is being financed from Agence Française de Développement (“AFD”) and Kreditanstalt fur Wiederaufbau (KFW) for Ahmedabad metro Rail Project Phase-II and Surat Metro Rail Project Phase-I. 
  • As per the requirement, GMRCL needs to Appoint a Third Party Auditor for Rehabilitation and Resettlement activities for both projects. 
  • As per the draft SIA report, total 118 PAFs for Ahmedabad Metro Rail Project Phase II and total 676 households for Surat Metro Rail Phase I, are getting affected due to the Metro Alignment, Station Box, Depots etc. 
  • The number of affected households/families may vary as per the design if any.

The complete documents can be downloaded from https://gmrc.nprocure.com.

Source: GMRC-Tender | Image Credit (representational): GMRC