CMRL tightens rules for contractors

CMRL had invited separate bids to engage a detailed design consultant to prepare the design and drawings for the alignment, civil, structural, architectural, track works of a few elevated and underground sections from Madhavaram Milk Colony to Shastri Nagar (excluding Madhavaram Milk Colony underground station), underground stations from Retteri to CMBT on corridor-V, Thousand Lights to Taramani Road Junction (excluding Thousand Lights underground station) and elevated station from Nehru Nagar to Sholinganallur and Madhavaram Milk Colony to Thousand Lights on corridor-III of phase-II. 

CMRL, which had suffered inordinate delay in work execution on Little Mount - DMS section due to termination of contract, has now released a second addendum with stringent eligibility criteria, understandably, to engage firms capable to executing the works without delay or without facing financial strain.

The new conditions require bidders to have annual turnover of Rs 54.4 crore or more in one of the five years individually or any member of the joint venture in addition to average Rs 33 crore annual turnover in the last five years. One of the new conditions also stipulate that the bidder should have completed a detailed design consultant work similar to the bids floated by CMRL for corridors III and V of second phase of Chennai Metro Project of more than or equal to Rs 43.5 crore in metro rail/rapid transit/mass transit/ MRTS or any other rail road-based transit system during the last seven years in India or abroad. The latest revision in the eligibility criteria is the second in a few months by CMRL, which had revised its conditions earlier in February 2018.