North Central Railway invites bids for work in Bihar

19 Aug 2022 CW Team

North Central Railway has floated tender for work between Birpur to Seroni Road in Bihar. The scope of work includes engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) agreement for all civil engineering works (earthwork, blanketing, retaining wall/boundary wall/side drain, major bridges, minor bridges, RUBs, LCs, station buildings, service buildings, quarters, other buildings, platforms etc.) and supply of machine crushed stone ballast including track linking works, in between block section from Birpur (excluding) to Seroni Road (including) GC Project excluding [Kuno Important Bridge and its approaches] (including certain Pway works) and excluding [ROB 210 and TRD and S&T work] in connection with Gwalior - Sheopurkalan GC project.

The estimated value of the project is Rs 303.94 crore with completion period of 20 months.

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