Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation of India Limited (DFCCIL) has invited open e-tenders, in Single Stage Two Packet System for Manufacture, supply, transportation and delivery of prime quality of 60 E1, 1080 Grade Head Hardened Class-A rails and UIC 60 Kg, 880 grade Class-A rails as per Indian Railway standard specification for flat bottom rails (with latest A & C slips) in the jurisdiction of CGM/DFCCIL/Jaipur.
- Tender Reference Number: JP-EN-CGM-JP-Rails-2022
- Name of Work: Manufacture, supply, transportation and delivery of prime quality of 60 E1, 1080 Grade Head Hardened Class-A rails and UIC 60 Kg, 880 grade Class-A rails as per Indian Railway standard specification for flat bottom rails (with latest A & C slips) in the jurisdiction of CGM/DFCCIL/Jaipur.
- Estimated Cost of Work: INR 20,78,43,137 Crore
- EMD: INR 20 Lakh
- Completion Period: 04 Months
- Document Download / Sale Start Date: 30th December, 2022
- Document Download / Sale End Date: 31st January, 2023
- Pre-Bid Conference Meeting: 06th January, 2023
- Bid Submission Start Date: 17th January, 2023
- Bid Submission End Date: 31st January, 2023
- Tender Opening Date: 31st January, 2023
Supply of Rails:
60E1, 1080 Grade Head Hardened & UIC 60 Kg, 880 Grade Class A Rails:
- The material offered should be in accordance with the technical specification of IRS-T-12- 2009 with Up-To-Date amendments & correction slips, for Flat Bottom Rails for HH Rails.
The scope of work in the subject tender shall include but not limited to the following:
- Manufacture of prime quality of 60E1, 1080 Grade Head Hardened Class A Rails as per Indian Railway Standard Specification for Flat Bottom Rails IRS-T-12-2009 (With latest A&C Slips) and approved Inspection & testing plan, to suit the requirement of DFCCIL (In addition to IRS-T-2009 specifications, DFCCIL requirement is for Tensile test, YS shall be 560 MPa at head and foot of rails).
- Complete submission of Inspection & Testing plan and other submissions as per Specifications for manufacturing and obtaining approval for the same from DFCCIL.
- Conducting all necessary inspection and testing required for the production of prime quality of rail and also arranging third party inspection from the nominated inspecting authority including providing all the inspection facilities.
- Packing, loading, transportation from the source of manufacturing to place of delivery, handling, forwarding, documentation and delivery of the manufactured rails at designated places in Rewari-Madar section, including unloading & stacking.
- Observing all safety precautions as required during all operations covered under this tender.
- The rails shall be supplied in length of 13m with undrilled holes.
- Supply of drawings, tracings or Reports of the material to be supplied shall, unless otherwise directed, be furnished by the Supplier with the first consignment of the work to which they relate and no payment whatsoever will be made until such drawings, tracings or Reports have been furnished to the satisfaction of the Purchaser.
- Along with the consignment containing the rails, the supplier shall supply two sets of clamps, capable of handling three to five rails in one operation, without any cost to DFCCIL. The cost of supplying these two sets of clamps is included in the accepted rates.
- If the Rails are supplied in bundles, they are to be stacked as single rails.
- Security deposit for rails shall be submitted within 21 days of the date of issue of Purchase Order. In case BG is not submitted within 21 days of the date of issue of Purchase order; DFCCIL may take action to cancel the contract or any part thereof and procure the unsupplied quantity as per condition of contract.
- Security deposit for rails shall be for a minimum amount required to meet with the requirement of rails to supply tendered material as per quarterly delivery schedule / delivery period of the purchase order.
- Rails to be supplied against this contract will be as under:
- HH Rail 1080 Grade each of 13 M length
- IRS-T-12-2009
- Rail 880 Grade each of 13 M length
- Drawing no. RT-6922
- Where any raw material is procured for the execution of contract with the assistance of the Government rendered in the form of permit or license of quote certificate / essentiality certificate or release order issued by or on behalf of or under the authority of the Government or by any officer empowered in that behalf or
- Where the raw material is issued to the contractor from government stock or
- Where advance payment is made to the contractor to enable him to purchase the raw material or
- Where the raw material is arranged by the Government, the contractor:
- Shall hold such materials as trustee for the Government.
- Shall use such material economically and solely for the purpose of the contract.
- Shall not dispose of the same without the previous permission in writing of the purchaser and
- Shall render the due account of such materials and return to the Government at such place as the Purchaser may direct all surplus or unserviceable material that may be left after the completion of the contract or its termination for any reason whatsoever.
- On returning such material, the contractor shall be entitled to such price therefore as the purchaser may fix having regard to the condition of such material.
- The freight charges for the return of the materials according to the direction of the purchaser shall be borne by the contractor in the event of the contract being cancelled for any default on his part. The decision of the Govt. shall be final and conclusive.
Guarantee of Stores:
- The contractor guarantees that the stores which he supplies shall be manufactured fully in accordance with the specifications. In all cases, the contractor guarantees that its design shall strictly follow the “as made” detailed drawing with such modifications as are notified in respect of each type.
- The contractor further guarantees that the stores shall be free from defects in material and workmanship provided that the contractor’s liability in this respect shall be limited to arranging the necessary replacement of the defective supplies free of any charge only to the extent that such replacements are attributable to or arise from faulty workmanship or material or in the manufacture of the stores.
- All replacements shall be made free of the cost at destination. If the contractor so desires, the replaced stores can be taken over by him for disposal as he deems fit, within a period of three months from the date of receipt of replacement of stores. At the expiry of this period no claim whatsoever shall lie on the purchaser.
- The guarantee herein contained shall not apply to any material, which shall have been repaired or altered by the Purchaser, or on his behalf in any way so as to affect its strength, performance or reliability or any defect to any part due to misuse, negligence or accident.
- All replacements that the Purchaser shall call upon the Contractor to deliver under this guarantee shall be delivered by the Contractor within three months from the date on which the purchaser calls upon him for the replacements of the defective stores.
- If the contractor fails to replace defective stores within the said period, the cost of the said stores at the rate stipulated in the contract shall be recovered from payment due to the contractor including the amount of security deposit made and maintained against this contract.
- Any approval or acceptance by the Purchaser of the stores or of the materials incorporated therein shall not in any way limit the contractor’s liability hereunder.
- The decision of the purchase in regard to the contractor’s liability under this guarantee shall be final and conclusive.
Eligibility:
- If a tenderers is not registered with DFCCIL or is not an approved source for the tendered item with DFCCIL / Railways production units/ CORE/ RDSO, he shall provide a satisfactory evidence acceptable to the Purchaser to show that:
- He is an established manufacturer, who regularly manufactures the items offered and has adequate technical knowledge and practical experience;
- He has adequate financial stability and status to meet the obligations under the contract for which he is required to submit a report from a recognized bank or a financial institution and last three years financial balance sheet / profit & loss statement.
- He has adequate plant and manufacturing capacity to manufacture the items offered and supply within the delivery schedule offered by him;
- He has established a quality control system and organization to ensure that there is adequate quality control at all stages of the manufacturing process.
About DFCCIL:
- The Indian Railways’ quadrilateral linking the four metropolitan cities of Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Howrah, commonly known as the Golden Quadrilateral.
- And its two diagonals (Delhi-Chennai and Mumbai-Howrah), adding up to a total route length of 10,122 km comprising 16% of the route carried more than 52% of the passenger traffic and 58% of revenue earning freight traffic of IR.
- The existing trunk routes of Howrah-Delhi on the Eastern Corridor and Mumbai-Delhi on the Western Corridor were highly saturated, line capacity utilization varying between 115% to 150%.
- Railways lost the share in freight traffic from 83% in 1950-51 to 35% in 2011-12.
- The growth of the Indian economy has created demand for additional capacity of rail freight transportation, and this is likely to grow further in the future.
- This burgeoning demand led to the conception of the dedicated freight corridors along the Eastern and Western Routes.
- Minister for Railways, made this historic announcement on the floor of the House in the Parliament while presenting the Railway Budget for 2005-06.
- This led to the establishment of “Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation of India Limited (DFCC)”, to undertake planning & development, mobilization of financial resources and construction, maintenance and operation of the dedicated freight corridors.
- DFCC was incorporated as a company under the Companies Act 1956 on 30th October 2006.
The Tender document can be downloaded from IREPS website www.ireps.gov.in and DFCCIL’s website www.dfccil.com
Source: DFCCIL- Tender | Image Credit (representational): DFCCIL
