Bullet train corridor: Technical bids to build 28 steel bridges opened
Eight entities, in form of individual companies as well as consortium, including the Tatas, Larsen and Toubro and Braithwaite, are in the race to build 28 steel bridges on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train corridor. The technical bids were opened on Friday.
The work for the steel bridges, which is complex considering they are on a high-speed rail corridor, was originally planned to be done by the Japanese, but it was subsequently decided that Indian engineering firms would be doing it.
The other five entities in race include companies like Afcons Infrastructure, Bridge & Roof Company (India) Limited, NCC Limited, JMC Projects (India) Ltd. and Rahee Infratech, ISGEC Heavy Engineering Ltd – M & B Engineering Limited Consortium. Larsen and Toubro has partnered with Japanese company IHI Infrastructure Systems.
