Gandhidham-Mundra Port Six-Laning Tender, Gujarat (₹834.47 Cr)

NHAI has tendered the six-laning of the Gandhidham (Kandla) to Mundra Port road in Gujarat, 71.40 km of NH-41 at ₹834.47 crore on EPC, with bids closing on 25 September 2026.

The road that carries two ports

NH-41 runs between Kandla and Mundra, which between them handle a large share of India’s container and bulk cargo. The Mundra Port six-laning tender covers the full 71.40 km from km 0/000 to km 71/400 and takes the road to six lanes on EPC mode, at a disclosed estimate of ₹834.47 crore. That is close to ₹11.7 crore per kilometre, which reads as a widening job on an existing alignment rather than a greenfield build, with the value sitting in pavement, additional carriageway and the junction work along a heavily used freight route.

The commercials line up cleanly. Product category is Civil Works, category is Works, the contract form is item rate across two covers with 120-day validity, and the EMD of ₹8,35,00,000 is almost exactly 1 per cent of the estimate, so there is no value-parsing doubt on this one. The tender is run through PIU Gandhidham under reference PROJ 19012/4/2025, with a tender fee of ₹90,000.

What makes this one harder than the number suggests

Widening a live freight corridor is a traffic management job as much as a construction job. Kandla and Mundra move trailers around the clock, and the contractor who wins this will be building alongside that traffic rather than on a closed site. Diversions, night working and staged handover of carriageway sections tend to decide whether the programme holds.

The other factor is ground. This part of Kutch sits on saline flats in places, and subgrade treatment on such stretches can move quietly from a line item into a major cost. Anyone pricing the work should read the soil investigation reports in the document set before settling embankment and pavement rates.

Fleet the job will absorb

Seventy-one kilometres of widening pulls in a long earthmoving train. Excavators strip and open the widened formation, dozers spread, motor graders bring it to level and soil compactors close each layer. On a run this long the borrow haul is what sets the tipper count, and in Kutch that haul is rarely short.

Pavement follows in volume: pavers, tandem and pneumatic tyred rollers, and a hot mix plant with the capacity to feed a wide front. Structures along the corridor bring in cranes and piling rigs, with batching plant, transit mixers and concrete pumps for culverts, underpasses and any grade separation. Water tankers stay busy through the dry months, and on a saline stretch it pays to plan the water source early rather than treat it as a site problem later.

Key facts

How to apply

1. Open the official portal: Central Public Procurement Portal.
2. Search by tender ID 2026_NHAI_287468_1 (reference no. PROJ 19012/4/2025 PIU Gandhidham/272834) under the National Highways Authority of India.
3. Register on the portal and keep a valid Class III digital signature certificate ready.
4. Download the NIT and tender documents, then check eligibility, the ₹8,35,00,000 EMD and the ₹90,000 fee. Read the soil investigation and the traffic management conditions before you finalise rates.
5. Submit your bid online before 25 September 2026.

More on DesiMachines

NHAI put two large Gujarat packages out on the same day. The other is the Amritsar-Jamnagar missing link tender at ₹713.11 crore, also closing 25 September, and a bidder working Saurashtra and Kutch may want to look at both together. Further inland, the NH-168A Thavar to Zerda widening tender closes 17 September, and the CPWD border outpost tender covers other work in Kutch.

Browse more live tenders in Gujarat or see all live tenders. On machines, compare excavators, motor graders, compactors and wheel loaders, or check equipment finance before you scale up.

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