India’s National High Speed Rail Corporation Ltd. (NHSRCL) awarded SCC – VRS JV with a Rs. 307.24 crore contract to construct the 2.127 km Package C-8 (Sabarmati Depot) of the 508.17 km Mumbai – Ahmedabad High Speed Rail (MAHSR Bullet Train) project.
Package C8 of the main-line (chainage 507.599 to 509.726) within Ahmedabad is the shortest and final of 5 packages within Gujarat state. It deals with civil, building & preparatory works at the Sabarmati train maintenance depot which will be the largest among three depots (others will be at Surat and Thane) planned on this line for the inspection, maintenance and stabling of Shinkansen train sets.
NHSRCL invited tenders (bids) for its construction, financed by Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) in October 2020 with a completion deadline of 4 years. Technical bids were opened in February 2021 to reveal 9 bidders out of which only 4 firms qualified.
