Item rate, percentage rate, EPC and hybrid annuity, across roadways, redevelopment and structures. Registrations current, accounts audited, guarantees arranged. When a tender lands, the only work left is pricing it.
Roadways and redevelopment each get their own page, because the work and the buyer are different. Structures covers the built scope that sits either side of them.
Every NHAI project and every NHAI tender we qualify for, plus state and municipal road work.
Land that already has people living on it, taken from consent through to conveyance.
The built scope that sits either side of a road or a rebuild.
We turn down more packages than we bid. A tender we cannot staff or cannot fund is a tender that ends in an extension request, and clients remember those longer than they remember a low quote.
Bill of quantities work. We price against the drawing and the site rather than against last year's schedule of rates.
Design, procurement and construction under one contract, with the design consultant sitting on our side of the table from the first sketch.
Where the authority funds part of the work and the balance rides on annuity payments. We bid these only where the maintenance window is one we can genuinely staff for its full length.
Packages taken from a lead contractor, and joint ventures where our plant or our registration covers a gap in someone else's bid.
Most disqualifications are administrative. An expired certificate, a missing affidavit, a solvency letter dated too far back. On an NHAI package a single similar completed work has to be worth at least 35 per cent of the estimated project cost before it counts at all, and the turnover and net worth thresholds move with the package rather than sitting at a fixed number. So the file is kept current and re-dated every quarter rather than assembled per bid.
| Constitution | Registered entity, with the incorporation documents |
|---|---|
| Contractor registration | Class, issuing department and the value ceiling it permits, with the enlistment certificate |
| Tax | PAN and GST registration certificates |
| Employment | Provident fund and state insurance codes |
| Labour | Contract labour licence and registration under the Building and Other Construction Workers Act |
| Enterprise | Udyam registration, for earnest money exemption where it applies |
| Management systems | ISO 9001, 14001 and 45001 certificates, with validity dates |
| Accounts | Audited balance sheet and profit and loss for the last three financial years |
| Bid capacity | Computed per the standard formula, with the working attached rather than asserted |
| Solvency | Certificate from a scheduled bank, dated for the current bid |
| Similar work | Completion certificates for comparable packages, in the format the tender asks for |
| Plant | Schedule of owned equipment with registration numbers |
| Personnel | Key staff with qualifications and years, in the tender format |
| Litigation | Declaration, whether nil or listed |
The file is kept current rather than assembled the week a tender closes. Certificate numbers, figures and dates travel with the bid, or come across on request to anyone with a reason to ask.
Almost every package we win has work in it that somebody else does better than us. Rather than hunt for that contractor after award, we would rather already know who you are. Pull up a chair and the desk will send you what is open.
Contractors, suppliers, plant owners and specialist trades all use the same door. You do not need a registration class to talk to us, and you do not need to have worked with us before. If the trade is one we buy, we will send you the package list and the closing dates.
Name, phone number and email address. That is the whole form.
Bituminous work, structures, piling, finishing, electrical and plumbing packages on a building, and anything with its own crew.
Pavers, rollers, cranes, transit mixers and tippers, on a package or on a monthly hire against a running job.
Aggregate, bitumen, steel, cement and ready-mix, quoted on landed cost against a stated lead distance.
Where your registration, your turnover or your plant closes a gap in a bid, and ours closes one in yours.
A low quote is the cheapest mistake a contractor can make, and we have made every one of these at some point. They are why the desk now runs the way it does.
The bill of quantities and the drawing disagree more often than anyone admits. We re-measure the big items before pricing, and we raise the difference in the pre-bid meeting.
Bitumen, steel and diesel do not sit still. Rate analysis gets rebuilt on current landed cost and current lead distance, every single bid.
Plant that is already on another package is not available, whatever the schedule says. Availability is checked against the running jobs before a number goes in.
It is the one moment a clause can still change. Somebody from our side attends, with the queries written down beforehand.
The pack carries the registrations, certifications, audited accounts, plant schedule and bid capacity working an evaluator asks for, dated and current.