DFCCIL invites tender for Engagement of third party inspection agency for inspection between Sachin to Vaitarna section

Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation of India Limited (DFCCIL) has invited open E-Tenders, in ‘Single Stage One Packet System’ on the prescribed mentioned work:

  • Tender No: MUM/N/EN/ROB/BSG/Inspection
  • Name of Work: Engaging of specialized third party Inspection Agency like RITES, WRI, CEIL or any other expert public sector under-taking for the Inspection, Supervision & Quality control related works of Material Testing, Fabrication of bow string steel girder, Painting & Assembly of Steel Superstructure for construction of Road Over Bridges between Sachin to Vaitarna section of Mumbai Division of Western Rail-way.
  • Duration of Contract: 18 months
  • Estimated Cost of Work: INR 40,00,500/-
  • Document download start date: 23.03.2022
  • Document download end date: 25.04.2022
  • Time of Opening of Tender: 25.04.2022

General:

  • Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation of India Ltd. (DFCCIL), a public sector undertaking has been set up under the Indian Companies Act, 1956 for imple-mentation of Dedicated Freight Corridor Project. 
  • Government of India is the sole shareholder of the DFCCIL. Ministry of Railways (MOR), Government of India has planned to construct Ded-icated Freight Corridor (DFC) covering about 3338 route Kilometres on Eastern and Western Corridors.
  • The coverage of Eastern Corridor is from Ludhiana to Dankuni and Western Corridor is planned from Jawaharlal Nehru Port, Mumbai to Rewari / Tughlakabad / Dadri near Delhi. There will be a linkage between two corridors at Dadri.

Dedicated Freight Corridor:

  • Eastern DFC Route will be approximately 1839 Km long from Dankuni to Ludhi-ana via Dankuni – Asansole – Dhanbad – Gaya – Sonnagar – Mughalsarai- Allaha-bad- Kanpur- Tundla- Aligarh- Khurja- Bulandshahr – Meerut – Saharanpur – Am-bala- Ludhiana. Western DFC Route will be approximately 1520 Km long from Dadri to JNPT via Rewari –  Iqbalgarh – Vadodara-JNPT. 
  • Proposed alignment of DFC has been generally kept parallel to existing Indian Railway line except provision of detours at some stations where the existing yards/cities are congested. Level Crossings (LC’s) are generally unsafe locations and also a congestion points for road/rail’s users. 
  • These LC’s are operational bottlenecks for Railways / DFCCIL in terms of loss in punctuality and reduction in line capacity. Construc-tion of ROB(s)/ RUB(s) is financially and operationally beneficial apart from the fact that it improves the safety of Rail/ Road users.3 Road over bridges (ROB) are being constructed on the level crossings falling on Western Corridor of DFCCIL. 
  • These ROBs shall span over the existing railway lines, the proposed DFCC lines and on approaches. The ROBs shall be con-structed in Railway and DFCCIL portion with composite girders/ Bow string gird-ers/ Through girders based on Railway GADs and design, and on approach por-tion, RE wall, RCC girders/ PSC girders etc. based on State Government GADs and detail. Designs, and suitably designed RCC abutments, piers and foundations including staircases and other allied components. Depth of type of foundation shall be de-cided/ designed based on detailed geotechnical investigation at ROBs sites. 
  • Be-fore execution or during execution, if there is a modification/correction in ap-proved GADs of Railways/State Government, the Agency has to execute the work s per modified/corrected GADs, for which Contractor shall not be entitled   to any extra payment or claims.

Scope of Work: 

  • Scrutiny of the QAP and WPSS prepared by the fabrication agency of ROB Contractor.   
  • Inspection & testing of raw material & consumables for fabrication of steel girder.
  • Inspection of fabricators workshop and at site as per approved QAP & WPSS.
  • Preparation of inspection reports and scrutiny of records maintained by fabricator in approved formats for workshop & site fabrication. 
  • Inspection of bearings at manufacturers workshop. 
  • Assisting DFCCIL/Railway in maintaining/enhancing the quality control as per the RDSO specifications and guidelines.

The complete documents can be downloaded from www.dfccil.com.


Source: DFCCIL-Tender | Image Credit (representational): MoR