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Amaravati Metro officials still undecided
Financial bids for Amaravati Metro Rail (AMRC) may be finalised within two or three days in New Delhi under supervision of Delhi Metro Rail Corporation. Officials of AMRC will reach Delhi by Wednesday to participate in bids opening programme.
Vijayawada: Financial bids for Amaravati Metro Rail (AMRC) may be finalised within two or three days in New Delhi under supervision of Delhi Metro Rail Corporation. Officials of AMRC will reach Delhi by Wednesday to participate in bids opening programme. Senior officers of AMRC on condition of anonymity told The Hans India that lowest bidder of the total three bidders would be selected in two days.
Highlights:
- Bids of Metro Rail to be finalised within three days in Delhi.
- Three global companies in the reckoning.
- AMRC takes long period to finalise bids.
“The officials are discussing whether to choose two or three bidders for the allotment of the works. So far no clarity has been made and the decision will be taken in two or three days after open the financial bids” a senior officer said. A special meeting was reportedly conducted in Secretariat in Velagapudi on Tuesday in view of opening financial bids and senior officers have given suggestion to officials of AMRC over the next process. The tender process was started on December 9, 2016 and technical bids were opened on March 1. Afcons infrastructure, Simplex Infrastructure and L&T companies filled technical and financial bids and the three firms qualified in technical bids.
Despite the AMRC officials announcing in March that the financial bids would be opened within 10 days, they decided later to give at least 45 days to the competitors. “We invited global tenders and chances will be given to all people in the world to participate in the bidding which is one of the reasons for the late of opening financial bids” an official said. He also said “We have to follow international bidding rules and satisfy the queries of international bidders as we are inviting global funding in addition to the funding of Union Government.
So we have given 45 days to the process”. Replying to a question, the senior officer said that once the selection of lowest bidder completed, works of metro rail in Vijayawada city would be started with one month or 45 days. The AMRC is going to built Eluru road corridor with a cost of Rs 801 crore and Penamaluru corridor with a cost of Rs 847 crore. Germany’s KFW group and AFO group of France have accorded for funding of Rs 3,600 crore as loan amount to AMRC.
