The tender covers the manufacturing, supply, packing, forwarding, and transportation of crystalline bifacial solar PV modules with a minimum nominal rating of 570 Wp. The modules must fall under the “open category” and be listed in the Approved List of Models and Manufacturers (ALMM) List-I.

The selected supplier will be required to provide 1,560 MWp of bifacial modules (4 x 390 MW), along with an additional 1 per cent as spares. NTPC REL confirmed that the project will be financed through internal resources and/or external borrowings.

As per the financial criteria, bidders must have had an average annual turnover of at least Rs 2.47 million per MWp of quoted capacity during the three financial years preceding the bid opening.

The Khavda site has already seen large-scale contracts awarded. Earlier, Vikram Solar secured a 326.6 MW order from Gujarat Industries Power Company Ltd for India’s largest renewable energy project at Khavda. Similarly, Kosol Energie won a 400 MW module supply order through Zetwerk for the same project, involving tracker-mounted bifacial modules under Category-1 certification.