HYDERABAD (Metro Rail News): Five consortia have submitted pre-qualification bids for the General Consultant contract on the Airport Express Line of the Hyderabad Metro, connecting ten stations between Mindspace Junction and Rajiv Gandhi International Airport.
The Telangana Government will provide funding for this 32 km semi-high speed rail line of the Hyderabad Metro Phase 2 project, which will be executed by HAML (Hyderabad Airport Metro Ltd). On December 9, 2022, Telangana’s Chief Minister laid the foundation stone.
Hyderabad Airport Metro Ltd. (HAML) invited expressions of interest (EOI cum RfQ) on December 1, 2022. They anticipate that the allocated consultant will work with them for 36 months and help with design, supervision, safety, quality control, and contract management to execute this line quickly.
Bidders are as follows:
- AECOM India + Egis Rail (France) + Egis India
- Ayesa (Spain) + Nippon Koei (Japan) + Aarvee Associates
- Consulting Engineers Group + Korea National Railway(South Korea)
- Systra (France) + RITES + DB Engineering (Germany)
- TYPSA (Spain) + PINI Group (Switzerland)
Now each of the five applications will be evaluated. Finally, the Request for Proposal (RfP) papers for the next stage of the bidding process will be issued to qualified consortiums in the upcoming months.
This mostly elevated route along the Outer Ring Road (ORR) at the airport inside Hyderabad Aerocity will travel 2.5 kilometres underground. It is anticipated that it will take 20 minutes to travel from Gachibowli in the city to RGIA, with trains moving at a top speed of 120 kmph.
TS Police Academy, Rajendranagar, Shamshabad, Bio-Diversity Junction, Nanakramguda, Narsingi, Manchirevula, Airport Cargo station, and RGIA Terminal are some of the stations on the route.
