Mumbai: Larsen and Toubro has won one of the Bullet Train financial bids for the design and construction of 237 km length of the viaduct for 508 km of Mumbai-Ahmedabad High-Speed Rail corridor.

Bids were opened today and Larsen and Toubro Ltd emerged as the lowest bidder.

Total of three bidders involving 7 (seven) major infrastructural companies had participated in the competitive bidding

Other bidders were: Afcons Infrastructure Limited, IRCON International Limited, JMC Projects India Ltd, Consortium and NCC Limited, Tata Project Ltd, J. Kumar Infra Projects Ltd, HSR Consortium.

Technical bids for this Bullet Train tender were opened on 23 September 2020 and in less than one month the financial bids have also been opened.

This tender covers about 47% of total alignment of 508 km, between Vapi (Zaroli Village at Maharashtra- Gujarat Border) and Vadodara in the state of Gujarat. This includes four (04) stations namely Vapi, Billimora, Surat and Bharuch, and Surat Depot.