Four bidders submit bids for Chennai Metro鈥檚 line-4 PSD contract

21 Oct 2022 CW Team

Four bidders鈥� Fangda Innotech, RT Vision 鈥� Dongwoo JV, ST Engineering Electronics, and Zhuzhou CRRC Times Electric鈥攈ave submitted bids for the platform screen door (PSD) contract of Chennai Metro鈥檚 26.09 km line-4, which would connect Light House to Poonamallee Bypass over 30 stops.

The contract is for design, manufacture, supply, installation, testing and commissioning of platform screen doors for CMRL Phase II Corridor 4.

On this route of Chennai Metro鈥檚 Phase 2, full-height platform screen doors will be installed at ten underground stations鈥� twenty platforms, while half-height PSDs will be put at eighteen elevated stations鈥� thirty-six platforms.

Chennai Metro Rail (CMRL) floated bids for this contract, which was financed by the AIIB and ADB in May 2022 and had a deadline of 2245 (6.15 years) with an undetermined estimate.

All four bids have been sent for technical bid evaluation, which could take a few months to complete. The financial bids of the technically qualified bidders will be opened after that to reveal who are the lowest bidder and most likely supplier.

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