After technical bids, Indian Railways
is planning to invite bids from consultants to provide legal and financial
advisory services for its station modernisation plans.
The Railways, however, is yet to
decide as to whether a common legal and financial consultancy bid should be
invited (for all stations) or whether bids should be invited for each station
independently. Initially, the Railways had planned to invite a common tender for
legal and technical advice for all station modernisation projects.
The technical bid for New Delhi
railway station modernisation has been awarded to Hong Kong-based consulting
firm Terry Farrell and Partners and the bids for Patna station modernisation
have been invited by the Railway Ministry.
The government is likely to award the
New Delhi Railway station modernisation project by December 2007 with an
investment of Rs.5,000 crore.
Also See:
Approval for
modernisation of Delhi railway station (16-Jun-07)