Bidding opens for Rs 17,843 crore Mumbai Trans Harbour Link after Japanese agency’s approval
Japanese International Cooperation Agency (Jica), which is funding 80% of the estimated Rs 17,843 crore cost for building country’s longest sea bridge, the Mumbai Trans Harbour Link (MTHL), has given its nod to invite proposals for the project.
“Jica’s no-objection clearance came in last week, thereafter, immediately we issued a notice to shortlisted bidders to submit proposals,” said a Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) official.
The 22-kilometre, 6-lane Mumbai Trans Harbour Link Project will provide direct access to Navi Mumbai, Navi Mumbai International Airport and will also provide gateway to Mumbai-Pune Expressway and further towards Southern India.
The proposals or request for proposals (RFP) will be submitted only by the shortlisted consortia who participated during request for qualification (RFQ) round.
Around 25 consortia and individual companies had submitted their bids for RFQ with the MMRDA in July last year.
A communication was sent on January 4 to 19 consortia or companies, inviting their proposals after they qualified the initial round.
The entire project has been divided into three packages and there are seven consortia each for the first two packages, and for the third package there is a mix of 15 consortia and companies.
Some of the companies who have been qualified are Hindustan Construction Company, IL&FS Transportation Networks, AFCONS Infrastructure, Simplex Infrastructure, J Kumar, Gammon India, Larsen & Toubro, ITD Cementation India.
“The last date for submitting the RFP documents is April 5,” said Dilip Kawathkar, MMRDA’s spokesperson.
The timeline finalised to finish the project is 2019 and the construction work is scheduled to commence post monsoon season.
The idea is to construct the bridge along with Navi Mumbai International Airport, which is also scheduled to be ready in the same year.
Earlier, there have been false start to the MTHL project. Last year, MMRDA had floated bids for the project on public private partnership model, but it did not elicit any response. Now, the government has adopted engineering, procurement, construction (cash contract) model for the project to take off.
Signing of loan agreement between the state government and Jica has been delayed as the state government is yet to issue State Support Agreement for the loan process to go ahead.
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