IRCON International Limited has awarded a Letter of Acceptance (LoA) to M/s Shivakriti International Ltd. for the commissioning of a double railway line as part of the Chhattisgarh East-West rail corridor project. The contract involves extensive track linking tasks from Sendurgarh (67 Km) to Pendra Road (135 Km).
Tender Details:
- Tender Reference Number: IRCON/2060/CGRP/e-TENDER/23-24/GEVRA-PENDRA/CTL-2/BSP-65
- Name of Work: Assembling, laying and linking of Railway track with Contractor’s own P-Way materials (except Rails, ballast and sleepers) and all other allied works required for commissioning of Railway line between Sendurgarh (67 Km) (including) to Pendra Road (135 Km) Double line in connection with the construction of New BG Electrified Double Railway Line for Chhattisgarh East West Rail Corridor from Gevra Road (Km 0) to Pendra Road (Km 135) via Dipka, Kathghora, Sendurgarh and Pasan in the state of Chhattisgarh over South East Central Railway.
- Completion Period for the Contract is: 09 Months
- The Awarded Value of the Tender is: Rs. 87,32,31,846.73/-
Scope of Works:
Scope of work broadly includes supply of P. way material (except Rails, ballast and sleepers) from RDSO approved sources, linking of track as per IRPWM, Flash butt welding of Rails, SKV welding of rail joints etc. Contractor has to arrange a tamping machine, turnout tamping machine, mobile flash butt welding machine (QAP of mobile FBW plant to be used should not be older 03 years), welding portions & consumables etc.
Supply of various P. way materials such as switches, crossings, fittings, derailing switches, switch expansion joints, glued insulated joints, track fittings such as elastic rail clips, grooved rubber sole plates, GFN liners, fish plates, fish bolts etc. from RDSO approved suppliers, supply of machine crushed stone ballast as per RDSO specifications, its storage, carriage of the same up to the worksites in contractor’s own trucks/trailers.
Leading of track ballast from already measured stacks at various locations including loading in trucks, unloading and spreading of ballast in layers for initial ballast cushion, ballast shifting, re-handling with all lead & lifts for secondary ballasting as a complete job. The contractor has to receive the already measured ballast stacks from IRCON.
- Supply of Special type of Sleepers and Transportation/ Shifting of special & PSC sleepers from sleeper stacks at various locations along the track alignment or any other location including loading and unloading to/ from trucks/tractors.
- Leading and pairing of the rail panels of various lengths in block section/yards from various temporary welding depots/stacking yards along the track alignment including ascends, descends, crossing diversions/nallah etc. with the approved method and approved machinery, tools and tackles.
- Flash butt welding of Rails by contractor’s Flash Butt Welding Plant (QAP of mobile FBW plant to be used should not be older 03 years) and Alumino- Thermit (AT) welding of rails with contractor’s welding portions and consumables, as per the approved procedure.
Laying of new Broad Gauge P. Way track on 52kg / 60kg Rails with sleepers on formation, girder bridges/ballasted deck bridges, curves, yards in straight line or in curve, with IRCON’s rails with their complete fittings such as grooved rubber pads, metal liners / GFN liner, ER Clips, J- Clips, Bolts, Screws etc. at specified sleeper density of 1660/ 1540 per km suitable for FP/SWR/LWR tracks with initial through packing and lifting of track in stages as directed by Engineer in- charge to bring the ballast cushion of about 250-300mm, correct longitudinal profile and cross levels within tolerances as specified for making track fit for introduction of tamping machine and running of ballast trains.
- Pre and Post Tamping work for tamping of track in straight & curve alignment, turnouts by tamping machine.
- Installation of various types of turnouts, derailing switches, SEJ, glued joints, check rails, guardrails etc.
- Collection and submission of survey data sheets at 10 m. intervals using contractor’s own surveyor, auto level and total station machine (i.e. lift and slew values of the linked track with respect to given designed/proposed rail level and alignment of railway track) before each round of tamping of the track with Tamping machine. It includes pre-tamping & post-tamping operations, boxing of ballast etc.
- De-stressing of LWR with/without rail tensors.
- Execution of associated works such as sand hump, buffer dead ends, check rails for level crossings, guard rails, cutting of rails, drilling of holes, slewing of the track, installation of various posts etc.
Source: IRCON – Tender Update | Image Credit (representational): North Eastern Railway
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