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Tender uploaded/published on 08/07/2026 at 13:11; online bid submission opens 17/07/2026.
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Yard Arrangement at Sasalu Station between Arsikere-Hubballi for Freight Terminal Development with 2 Additional Goods and Stabling Lines including Earthwork, Platform Works, Extension of Bridge No.52, Yard Drainage, Construction of Goomty Buildings, Approach Road, Track Linking, Electrical, TRD and Allied Works. (COMPOSITE WORK).
South Western Railway · Dharwad, KarnatakaUBL-JRU-66
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8 Jul 2026
31 Jul 2026
₹36.4 Cr
₹72.7 L
All important dates as they stand after corrigenda: publication, pre-bid/clarification deadline, bid submission deadline, bid opening, and bid validity period.
Tender uploaded/published on 08/07/2026 at 13:11; online bid submission opens 17/07/2026.
No pre-bid conference is required; no separate clarification deadline is stated.
Original or revised e-bids may be submitted up to 31/07/2026 at 15:00; manual offers are not allowed.
The documents do not state a separate bid-opening date/time.
90 days from tender closing (two-packet system).
Tender value or estimated cost, EMD/bid security (amount, acceptable forms, validity), tender document fees, performance security, and key payment terms.
₹363,737,117.48.
₹7,274,800.00. The NIT allows cash through the e-payment gateway or a scheduled-commercial-bank BG in Annexure-VIA; BG validity is 90 days beyond bid validity. Tender-specific page 67 simultaneously says an offer is invalid if Bid Security is not paid online; bidders should obtain written portal clarification before relying on BG.
₹0.00; e-tender forms are issued free of cost.
5% of original contract value, plus an additional 5% if the accepted quote is more than 5% below advertised cost (nil for 0–5% below). Submit within 21 days of LOA; extension to 60 days attracts 12% p.a. penal interest from day 22. PG must remain valid through completion plus 60 days and be extended with any completion extension.
5% of contract value. Bid Security may be retained as part; the balance may be deposited in specified forms or recovered at 6% of bills until fully recovered. Any SD BG must cover the maintenance period plus 60 days; refund follows final payment, no-claim/final supplementary agreement, and maintenance certificate.
Rates include taxes; Railway pays against measured quantities and agreement rates. A contractor may request 75% provisional payment of an on-account bill before deductions, but the next bill cannot be raised until the previous provisional and balance payment is finalized. Full/final payment follows test checks; invoices must separately show GST, with statutory deductions.
Every pass/fail eligibility and qualification requirement: experience and past performance, turnover/net worth, registrations and certifications, consortium/JV rules, and debarment or blacklisting conditions.
Minimum average annual contractual turnover is V/N or V, whichever is less, where V is advertised value in crore rupees and N is the prescribed completion period in years. Use average total contractual payments from the previous three financial years, supported by audited balance sheets/CA certificate; with a 10-month completion period, the formula effectively requires V.
Available bid capacity must be at least the total bid value. Submit Proforma-2/2A data, including all ongoing and awarded-but-not-started commitments, CA-verified; failure is summary rejection. ACS-11 applies bid capacity above ₹10 crore, so it applies here.
For each component above ₹2 crore, during the last 7 years ending the last day of the month before invitation, satisfy one of: 3 similar works each ≥30%, 2 each ≥40%, or 1 ≥60% of that component. Component-wise value bifurcation in completion certificates is mandatory; otherwise the certificate is invalid.
Component 1 Earthwork and Bridges ₹26.02 crore: earthwork in formation plus bridge construction. Component 2 Track ₹7.60 crore: track linking/rail renewal/sleeper renewal/turnout renewal/track maintenance, with or without P-way material/ballast. Component 3 OHE-Electrical ₹2.75 crore: design, supply, erection, testing and commissioning of 50Hz single-phase 25kV AC OHE or 2x25kV AT feeding.
Private-individual certificates are not accepted. Government certificates are accepted; public-listed-company experience is accepted only where the company meets the stated ₹500 crore average turnover/listing/age conditions and the bidder also supplies work order, BOQ, CA-certified bill-wise payments, TDS certificates and final/last bill.
JV is allowed; consortium is not. Up to 5 JV members because the work spans departments. Lead member must hold at least 51%; in a JV of more than 3, each other member must hold at least 10%. A member cannot bid separately or through another JV in the same tender.
The JV or lead member must satisfy the major component; the JV or any member may satisfy other components. Every non-lead member not qualifying a component must have one similar work worth at least 10% of any qualifying component. Lead member financial capacity must be at least 51% and members’ capacities/bid capacities are aggregated.
For a composite component below 50% of tender value, the bidder may rely on an eligible subcontractor only with a notarized, court-enforceable agreement submitted with the offer. Components below ₹2 crore need no subcontractor credential at bid stage. ACS-11 separately caps subcontracted works at 40% of Contract Price and requires the contractor to execute at least 60% directly.
Bidder and constituents must not be blacklisted/debarred by Railways or any Government of India ministry/department on bid submission date. False/forged certification causes rejection/termination, security forfeiture and possible ban up to two years. A bidder from a land-border-sharing country is eligible only with Competent Authority registration; the successful bidder may not subcontract to an unregistered contractor from such country.
Because procurement exceeds ₹10 crore, submit Proforma-10 certification of local-content percentage by statutory/cost auditor or practicing CA/cost accountant. Failure to fulfill local-content compliance and submit the applicable form is summary rejection.
What is being procured: the work, supplies or services, deliverables and quantities, locations, phases, completion or delivery timelines, applicable standards, and notable exclusions.
At Sasalu Station between Arsikere and Hubballi: freight-terminal yard arrangement with two additional goods and stabling lines, earthwork, platform works, extension of Bridge No.52, yard drainage, goomty buildings, approach road, track linking, electrical, TRD and allied works.
Programme includes 1,800 m yard drain; rail-level goods platform 659×25 m, existing-platform extension 40×20 m and 12 m width extension for 764 m; 1,200×7.5 m approach road; three lines with CSL 823/760/780 m plus 300 m short shunting neck; electrical/TRD works and yard commissioning.
Overall completion is 10 months. Major milestones: earthwork/Bridge 52/drain D+210; blanketing D+240; platform and approach road D+270; electrical/TRD D+285; track laying and commissioning D+300.
Work follows attached GCC/SCC and discipline technical specifications. Electrical contractor must obtain applicable EIG approval before commissioning and provide three signed A3 as-erected AutoCAD sets plus editable soft copy.
Three years for all works except the extension of Major Bridge No.52, which has a four-year maintenance period.
The complete checklist of documents to submit — mandatory vs conditional, with any prescribed formats, proformas or annexures — plus how to submit: portal and mode, envelope/cover structure, digital signature requirements, signing and attestation rules, and physical originals with their deadline.
Submit only online through IREPS in a two-packet system; manual offers are ignored. Documents and compliance responses open with the technical bid; price is entered on the Financial Offer page.
Offer must be digitally signed by the bidder/authorized attorney. Every credential page must be self-attested or digitally signed; self-attestation requires signature, stamp and date on each page. Upload readable scans, including notarized documents.
Only a BG-form Bid Security has a stated physical-original rule under ACS-5: deliver it in person before the bid-closing date, excluding the last date. The tender does not identify the nominated official/address; obtain clarification. No other physical-original submission is stated.
Every corrigendum/addendum in order — what changed (original vs amended value), its impact, and the action for the bidder — ending with the values that finally apply.
Recast turnover evidence, JV technical criteria, bid-capacity annexure, time-extension/LD and PVC provisions. For this bid, use audited/CA-supported turnover data and the revised 10% minimum technical capacity for non-lead JV members; LD is 0.05%–0.30% per week capped at 5%.
Introduced/revised mandatory Annexure-V and V(A) bidder certifications and originally required physical BG within five working days before closing. Non-submission causes summary rejection.
Reduced false-information banning language from up to five years to up to two years and revised bid-stage/post-award Power of Attorney provisions, including overseas execution.
Conformed Annexure-V items 8–9: forged/false certification can forfeit Bid Security, reject/terminate the bid/contract, forfeit SD/PG and lead to a ban up to two years.
Replaced ACS-2’s five-working-day physical BG deadline: the original BG must reach the nominated official before closing, excluding the last submission date. Bidder action: do not wait until 31/07/2026; obtain the unnamed delivery address.
Added contractor GST indemnity/refund liability and permits Railway to hold payments for GST non-compliance until ITC is verified.
Revised Tender Form (First Sheet), reaffirming offer validity, online/BG bid security, seven-day contract execution and fifteen-day commencement commitments.
Revised termination notice to allow service through IR-WCMS/registered IREPS email and records rescission after a 48-hour notice, forfeiture of SD/encashment of PG and ex-parte measurement/final bill.
Revised PG clause: 5% PG, Insurance Surety Bond permitted, 21-day submission (up to 60 days with 12% penal interest), validity through completion plus 60 days.
Revised dispute resolution: arbitration is not routine; ordinarily limited to disputes below ₹10 crore, with special approval/reasons above that, and provides a three-arbitrator process.
Latest changes: Bid Security formula becomes 2% for all works; subcontracted works capped at 40%; PG remains 5% plus 5% additional security for bids more than 5% below estimate; bid-capacity threshold becomes ₹10 crore; expanded integrity sanctions. Tender-specific NIT amount ₹7,274,800 applies for payment.
Closing 31/07/2026 15:00; validity 90 days; value ₹363,737,117.48; Bid Security ₹7,274,800; completion 10 months; PG 5% plus applicable additional PG; SD 5%; JV up to five members; bid-capacity test applies; subcontracted works maximum 40%.
Genuine conflicts within and across the documents (original vs corrigenda, clause vs annexure, tender document vs BOQ): both sides with citations, and which value prevails.
NIT General Instruction 3 permits cash/e-payment or scheduled-bank BG, while tender-specific Special Condition 5 says an offer is invalid if Bid Security is not paid online. Treat online payment as the rejection-safe route unless Railway issues written clarification accepting BG.
ACS-11 says 2% of estimated cost rounded to nearest ₹100. On ₹363,737,117.48 this mathematically gives ₹7,274,700, but the tender-specific NIT states ₹7,274,800. Pay the explicit NIT amount ₹7,274,800; seek clarification rather than short-paying.
The work title says two additional goods and stabling lines; the programme requires laying three lines (CSL 823, 760 and 780 m) plus a 300 m shunting neck. The detailed programme/BOQ governs execution quantities, but bidder should confirm whether the third line is renewal/relaying of an existing line or additional scope.
NIT allows subcontractor-supported technical qualification for component(s) below 50% of tender value, but latest ACS-11 caps actual subcontracted works at 40% of Contract Price. ACS-11’s later 40% execution cap prevails; qualification reliance must be structured so actual subcontracted work remains within it.
NIT repeats the older “more than Rs.20 crore” threshold, while latest ACS-11 changes it to more than ₹10 crore. ACS-11 prevails; this tender exceeds both thresholds, so bid capacity is mandatory either way.
Only critical, tender-specific pre-bid queries that could materially change bid/no-bid, pricing, eligibility or contractual risk. Skip generic or obvious questions the documents already answer clearly.
Will IREPS accept a BG for ₹7,274,800 despite Special Condition 5 requiring online payment? If yes, identify the nominated official, full delivery address and exact last acceptable receipt date for the original BG.
Clarify whether scope is two additional lines or laying three lines plus shunting neck, and issue the latest approved yard plan, Bridge 52 drawings/design responsibility and construction staging/block assumptions before pricing.
Confirm that Component 1 requires a single similar-work credential involving both formation earthwork and bridge construction, and state how experience values will be allocated where one completion certificate covers multiple components.
Explain how NIT’s eligibility reliance for components below 50% will be evaluated against ACS-11’s 40% cap on subcontracted works, including whether goods/equipment procurement exclusions apply to P-way/OHE packages.
Commercial, legal and execution risks a bidder should weigh: liquidated damages and penalties, unusual or one-sided clauses, tight timelines, and payment or security risks.
Civil, bridge, track, electrical and TRD scope must commission in 10 months; earthwork/bridge/drain are due D+210, electrical/TRD D+285 and full yard D+300. Interface and traffic-block delays can directly threaten completion.
Contractor-delay LD is 0.05%–0.30% of contract value per week/part, capped at 5%. SCC additionally permits an Engineer-in-charge-determined fine for missed programme/milestones or quality, even without actual damage, and allows LD on top if damage is actual/anticipated.
Some detailed drawings may be issued only as finalized; the NIT disclaims compensation and claims for delays/hold-ups caused by approvals, changes, omissions, late drawings or Railway-supplied materials. Price substantial design/interface float and working-capital exposure.
Maintenance is 3 years generally and 4 years for Bridge 52. SD BG remains valid through maintenance plus 60 days and cash/retained SD is refunded only after final payment, no-claim certification and maintenance certificate.
Base PG is 5%, SD another 5%, and a quote more than 5% below estimate triggers another 5% PG. Delayed PG after day 21 attracts 12% p.a.; failure by day 60 risks termination, forfeiture and exclusion from retender.
Only 75% provisional on-account payment is available; the next bill waits for finalization of the prior provisional/balance payment. GST non-compliance can cause Railway to hold payments and recover/refund GST, interest and penalties from the contractor.
Only 40% of works may be subcontracted; at least 60% must be directly executed, and JV lead must solely discharge at least 30%. JV members remain jointly and severally liable, and the awarded JV must register an entity and PAN within 60 days of LOA or risk termination/forfeiture.
ACS-10 says arbitration is not automatic and ordinarily restricts it to disputes below ₹10 crore; larger disputes need recorded reasons and high-level approval, increasing litigation/time risk on a ₹36.37 crore multidisciplinary contract.
The inviting authority and relevant contacts: office, person, designation, address, phone and email — and which address receives physical submissions, if any.
Chief Administrative Officer, Construction, South Western Railway, acting for and on behalf of the President of India.
Yagani Yogananda Babu, Dy.CE/CN/WORKS/BNC.
No tender-specific office address, phone number or email is printed in the NIT. No physical-submission address is stated, including for an original BG.