An engineering consultancy consortium consisting of Systra, RITES and DB Engineering was selected for Airport Metro. Their financial quote was Rs 98.54 crore to provide engineering consultancy services.
Systra is a major engineering consultancy group from France, while RITES is a PSU of the Indian Railways and DB belongs to Germany.
In an open competition in which five international consortia competed, the Systra-led consortium was the winner. It not only got the highest technical score for its credentials, but gave the lowest financial quote of Rs 98.54 crore to provide engineering consultancy services, stated HAML MD, NVS Reddy.
He has indicated that this consortium will deploy 18 experts of different railway engineering disciplines and about 70 senior and field engineering personnel during the construction of the Airport Metro.
Based on the recommendations of the technical committee which evaluated the capabilities, experience and competence of the five consortia which participated in the tender, a high-level committee consisting of Special Chief Secretary (Finance) K Ramakrishna Rao, Metropolitan Commissioner, HMDA, Arvind Kumar and MD, HAML , NVS Reddy have selected the Systra-led consortium as the GC for the Airport Metro.
The immediate task of the GC is to prepare Engineering, Procurement and Construction tender documents for selecting the contractor for the Airport Metro, added NVS Reddy.
