The contracted works, with an estimated cost of INR 170.698 million, are expected to be completed within 91 months from award.
The storage project on the river Dibang in the Lower Dibang Valley District is designed with a 278 m-high concrete gravity dam, six horseshoe-shaped headrace tunnels varying from 300m to 600m in length, an underground powerhouse with twelve 240 MW units and six horseshoe-shaped tailrace tunnels varying from 320m to 470m. The INR 318.76 billion (US$3.85 billion) project is designed to generate 11 223 GWh in a 90 per cent dependable year as well as control downstream flooding. It is one of a series of dams planned to control flooding on the rivers, which feed the river Brahmaputra and mitigate the perennial damage caused by floods in the neighbouring state of Assam.
Complete NIT and tender documents can be downloaded and submitted through the portal https://eprocure.gov.in/eprocure/app. The site can also be viewed through the e-procurement corner of NHPC website, www.nhpcindia.com and the Central Public Procurement Portal. The date for the e-Reverse Auction shall be disclosed separately by NHPC. Bidders need to register on the website to submit their bids. Subsequent amendments, if any, shall be posted only on the aforesaid websites.
For further information, contact: General Manager (CC-I) , Contracts (Civil) Division, Room No. 218, 2nd Floor, Jyoti Sadan, NHPC Ltd., NHPC Office Complex, Sector-33, Faridabad-121003 (Haryana), India. Tel.: +91 129-2270596; Email: contcivil1-co@nhpc.nic.in
