(This feature was started in October 2004, to view contracts for the period October to December 2004, please click here. To view contracts for the quarter January to March 2005, please click here.)

A. Domestic Contracts

26 May 2005

• Nagarjuna Constructions has informed that it has recently won orders worth Rs.258 crore from various parties. These include an order worth Rs.123 crore from Gujarat Water Resources Development Corporation, Rs.79 crore from Karnataka Road Development Corporation, Rs.34 crore from Assam State Electricity Board and Rs.22 crore from Karnataka Government. (No details of these orders are available)
  
  
• Indian Oil Corporation awarded contract worth Rs.21 crore to Skanska Cementation India for installation of about 14700 nos. 800 MM dia stone columns by Vibroflotation technique for its oil pipeline between Paradip in Orissa and Haldia in West Bengal costing Rs.1,154 crore.
  
  
• NTPC awarded the contract worth Rs.30.20 crore to Skanska Cementation India for civil work, main plant and offsite civil works and installation of 550/760 MM dia bored piles for Feroze Gandhi Unchahar thermal power project at Mustafabad in Rai Bareilly district of Uttar Pradesh. The company is setting up a 210 MW coal-based unit, the fifth at the power station.

24 May 2005

• MSK Projects India won a Rs.4.66 crore work order for constructing a project site office for Indian Oil Corporation's naphtha cracker complex at Panipat in Haryana. (project details)

23 May 2005

• Kirloskar Brothers received a letter of award from Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply & Sewerage Board for design, manufacture, supply, creation and commissioning of clear water pumping plants under the Krishna Drinking Water Supply Project (Phase II). The value of the contract is Rs.78.62 crore

18 May 2005

• Simplex Concrete Piles (India) bagged a Rs.208.5 crore contract for civil and construction work for Jindal Power Ltd's 1,000 MW Raigarh thermal power project in Chhattisgarh. Simplex would be executing half of the civil work for the project coming up at Tamnar in Raigarh district of Chhattisgarh.

• Simplex Concrete Piles (India) also bagged a Rs.128 crore contract for revamping the Kolkata Municipal Corporation's sewerage network. The project is being funded by World Bank.

• Valecha Engineering bagged a Rs.133 crore contract from National Highways Authority of India for constructing the Chittorgarh Bypass in Rajasthan (more...)

16 May 2005

• IVRCL Infrastructures  & Projects bagged the following two orders worth Rs.393 crore from National Highways Authority of India:
  • four-laning of a 38 km stretch (Km 42 to Km 80, Package NS-40) from Madurai to Kanyakumari
  • four-laning of a 40 km stretch (Km 80 to Km 120, Package NS-41) from Madurai to Kanyakumari.

10 May 2005

• Siemens AG along with its Indian partner bagged a Rs.925 crore from Mumbai Rail Vikas Nigam in connection with the Mumbai Urban Transportation Project. (more...)

05 May 2005

• Ducon Technologies Inc of USA, through its Indian subsidiary, Ducon Pollution Control System Pvt Ltd, has bagged an order from Reliance Energy for installing a sea water FGD unit at the Dahanu power plant (more...)

• RITES has bagged orders worth over Rs.290 crore for roadway consultancy projects in Orissa (more...)

03 May 2005

• Nagarjuna Construction Co has secured three orders worth Rs.150 crore. These include widening and improving Karnataka State Highways for the Karnataka Road Development Corporation Ltd; project work at HDPE unit for GAIL India, New Delhi and construction of residential quarters for Army College of Medical Sciences, New Delhi.

25 April 2005

• IRCON International reported that it received two orders:
  • A Rs.168 crore order from New Mangalore Port Road Co to four-lane the existing two-lane carriageway of NH-17 from Suratkal to Nantoor and strengthen a bypass between Nantoor and Padil.
  • A Rs.18.72 crore order from Delhi Metro for track work in Dwarka sub-city and extension from Barakhamba Road to Indraprastha Extension involving 12 km of tract including 1.9 km inside the tunnel.

23 April 2005

• Mukand received an order worth Rs.140 crore for the supply of EOT cranes, caster equipment, mill equipment from Bhushan Steel for its upcoming 1.5 million tpa steel plant in Orissa. All the equipment would be manufactured at Mukand's Kalwe unit in Maharashtra, and would be supplied over 18 months.

22 April 2005

• Siemens received an order worth Rs.147.50 crore from Power Grid Corporation of India for a turnkey transmission sub-station project at Seoni in Madhya Pradesh. The company will construct sub-stations having voltage levels of 765 kV and 220 kV for PGCIL's transmission project at Seoni. The contract entails study, design, supply, installation and commissioning within 22 months, and would be executed by the power transmission and distribution division of Siemens.

21 April 2005

• Engineers India Ltd bagged an order of unknown value from National Aluminium Co for engineering, procurement, construction supervision and project management (EPCM) for its Phase II expansion project in Orissa. The project costing over Rs.4,000 crore involves expansion of aluminium smelting capacity from 3.45 lakh tpa to 4.6 lakh tpa. (project details)

20 April 2005

• UB Engineering reported that it won orders worth Rs.60 crore from the steel and power sectors. The orders are from:
  • Bharat Heavy Electricals for civil construction associated with two power units of 250 MW each at Punjab State Electricity Board's Guru Hargobind Thermal Power Project (Stage II, Units 3 & 4) at Lehra Mohabbat in Bhatinda district. [Rs.10.34 crore]
  • Haryana Vidyut Prasaran Nigam for supply of equipment and erection for turnkey construction of 220 kV and 132 kV substations at Bahadurgarh. [Rs.27.12 crore]
  • Essar Construction for fabrication work at Hazira [Rs.14.59 crore]
  • Jindal Steel & Power for mechanical work at its sinter plant project at Raigarh in Chhattisgarh. [Rs.8.30 crore]

19 April 2005

• RPG Transmission Ltd bagged an order valued at Rs.86 crore from Rajasthan Vidyut Prasaran Nigam for the supply and construction of a 400 kV transmission line running 265 km from Dholpur to Heerapura (in Jaipur). The project is scheduled for completion by November 2006. The company had recently bagged two similar orders from Chhattisgarh State Electricity Board for two transmission line projects:
  • Korba-East to Bishrampur [220 kV, 150 km, Rs.41 crore]
  • Bishrampur to Balrampur [132 kV, 90 km, Rs.26 crore]

• SAAG RR Infra Ltd -- a subsidiary of SAAG Mauritius -- bagged an order of Rs.5 crore from Bharat Heavy Electricals (Tiruchirapalli division). The scope of the contract includes construction and maintenance of BHEL's factory building, township, public building, railway sidings and roads. 

15 April 2005

• Blue Star, won an order valued at Rs.8 crore for providing air-conditioning facilities for the "Oberoi Mall" coming up at Goregaon in north Mumbai. The mall with a total area of 5 lakh sq feet is being developed by Oberoi Constructions Pvt Ltd. (project details...)

14 April 2005

• IVRCL Infrastructures & Projects, bagged an order worth Rs.1,737 crore from the Andhra Pradesh government for developing the Sripada Sagar irrigation project. (more....)

13 April 2005

• Siemens, through its Industrial Solutions & Services division, bagged an order valued at over Rs.250 crore from Neyveli Lignite Corporation for providing turnkey electrical and automation solutions for NLC's Mines II Expansion project. The project is to augment the overall capacity of NLC by 4.5 million tpa and power generation by 500 MW. The scope of the order includes design, manufacture, supply erection, commissioning and maintenance for special mining equipment and conveyors.  (project background)

• Larsen & Toubro secured a Rs.165 crore contract from Bangalore Water Supply & Sewerage Board for setting up a drinking water supply system in the city. (more....)

12 April 2005

• The ABB Group bagged an order worth $80 million for supplying 765 kV extra high voltage transformers and shunt reactors from NTPC and PGCIL for the Sipat thermal power project and its associated transmission facilities in Chhattisgarh. (more....)

8 April 2005

• Reliance Energy was selected as BOOT operator for Uttarachal Jal Vidyut Nigam for implementing the Urthing Sobla hydropower project (more....)

7 April 2005

• Larsen & Toubro won an order worth Rs.1,864 crore from ONGC for a major restoration project at the Mumbai High region. (more.....)

6 April 2005

• Bharat Heavy Electricals bagged an order worth Rs.1,464 crore from Bhilai Supply Co Pvt Ltd to be executed in Chhattisgarh. (more.....)
  
  
• Subhash Projects & Marketing Ltd. has been awarded the following order valued Rs.98.92 crore: Order for the turnkey Package of supply 8.50 TMC of Drinking Water from Sripada Sagar Project to STPP (NTPC), Ramagundam (M) in Karimnagar district (AP) awarded by the Irrigation Department of Govt. of Andhra Pradesh.

5 April 2005

• Patel Engineering bagged a Rs.18.4 crore micro-tunneling project in Mumbai from Brihanmumbai Mahanagar Palika. (Details are awaited.)

• The consortium of Hindustan Construction Co and Nagarjuna Construction Co bagged a Rs.1,887 crore EPC contract from the Andhra Pradesh state government to execute the Godavari Lift Irrigation Scheme (Phase II). HCC has a 51 per cent stake in the joint venture and its share in the total contract value is Rs.962.37 crore.

• MSK Projects India was selected as BOT contractor a Rs.1,887 crore EPC contract from the Andhra Pradesh state government to execute the Godavari Lift Irrigation Scheme (Phase II). HCC has a 51 per cent stake in the joint venture and its share in the total contract value is Rs.962.37 crore.

2 April 2005

• Kirloskar Brothers bagged on order worth Rs.286 crore from the Irrigation & CAD Department of Andhra Pradesh, relating to the Gandikota Lift Irrigation Scheme (more.....)

• Crompton Greaves secured an order valued at $19.5 million (Rs.84 crore) from National Thermal Power Corporation for supply, installation and commissioning of 765 KV class generator transformers.

1 April 2005

• IVRCL Infrastructures & Projects announced that is has secured new orders worth Rs.570 crore in the areas of irrigation, water supply, roads and buildings. An order worth Rs.451 crore (no details available) has come from Andhra Pradesh government's irrigation works department to IVRCL-Sew & Prasad Consortium. The other contracts include water works (Rs.34.7 crore), roads & bridges (Rs.79.9 crore) and buildings (Rs.4.3 crore).

• Simplex Concrete Piles India bagged an order worth Rs.108 crore in connection with Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust's third container terminal project (more news.....). It is also learnt that it recently bagged an order worth Rs.77 crore for construction of a container terminal at the Mundra port in Gujarat.

B. Overseas Contracts

16 May 2005

• Ircon International has bagged a Rs.64 crore contract from the Government of Nepal for developing a highway in that country (more...)

3 May 2005

• Larsen & Toubro's Engineering & Construction (E&C) division was appointed pre-construction managers for rebuilding of the Kensington Oval. The Rs.200 crore project, which L&T would oversee, involves the rebuilding of the historic Kensington Oval Cricket Ground in Barbados in the Carribean. The ground would be ready to host the World Cup 2007.

21 April 2005

• KEC International Ltd has won four contracts worth $52.9 million (Rs.231 crore) from Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation. Three of the four contracts are for construction of power distribution networks.

  Funded by the African Development Bank, these projects are of 33kV/400 voltage distribution lines for rural electrification throughout Ethiopia. The total length of the 33kV lines is over 2000 route km, while the low-voltage lines are for over 450 route km. The scope of the project also includes installing 180 low-voltage substations. When completed, the lines will electrify over 40,000 rural households. The fourth contract is for a 230-kV single circuit transmission line project, over 243 km and also involves laying fibre optic cables. KEC's ongoing overseas orders are in the UAE, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Lebanon, Zambia and Ethiopia.

5 April 2005

• Ircon International has secured a Rs.63 crore contract for the strengthening and upgradation of Belabari-Chawara section, East-West Highway in Nepal. Asian Development Bank (ADB) will fund the project. The contract was placed on Ircon by the Nepal's Department of Roads, Ministry of Physical Planning & Works. The work comprises strengthening of 140 km of East-West Highway and is scheduled to be completed in 24 months.

2 April 2005

• Ircon International won an order worth Rs.31.9 crore from Bangladesh Railways for modernisation of signaling and interlocking systems at 12 railway stations of the Sylhet-Akhaura section.