Paradip Dredging Tender: Dredging and Reclamation for an Industrial Estate

Dredging Corporation of India is dredging and reclaiming land to create an industrial estate at Paradip, and the Paradip dredging tender closes at 3:00 PM on 24 November 2026.

Making land instead of deepening water

The scope is dredging and reclamation work for establishment of an industrial estate at Paradip, Odisha, tendered by Dredging Corporation of India under the Ministry of Shipping, reference DCI/HO/OPS/IDCO-Dredging and Reclamation/Paradip/2026, on an item rate contract.

Reclamation dredging is a different trade from maintenance dredging. The dredged material is the product, not the waste: it gets pumped into bunded cells, allowed to settle and drain, and becomes the platform the industrial estate is built on. Grain size and fines content decide how long that settling takes, which is the main schedule risk.

The portal leaves two fields blank

Neither the tender value nor the period of work is published. The EMD is ₹1,00,00,000 with no exemption and the fee is ₹8,850. At the usual 2 per cent, that deposit points to a contract of about ₹50 crore, which should be treated as an indication and confirmed from the bid document.

Paradip already has the three-year maintenance dredging contract out, so two dredging jobs at one port are live at the same time. On the east coast the Kamarajar Port second container terminal is open as well.

Plant on the bund, not just in the water

The dredger and its pipeline do the moving, but reclamation runs on land plant that most people forget to price. Bunds have to be built and raised ahead of filling, so excavators work the perimeter continuously and a compactor keeps the bund crest sound.

Once a cell drains, wheel loaders and tippers spread and level the fill, and a motor grader shapes the platform to grade. Outfall and weir structures need mixers and a crane for pipe sections. Odisha fleet owners near Paradip and Kujang can get continuous work on the land side of a dredging contract without owning any marine plant at all.

Key facts

How to apply

1. Open the official portal: Central Public Procurement Portal.
2. Search by tender ID 2026_MoS_904219_1 (reference no. DCI/HO/OPS/IDCO-Dredging and Reclamation/Paradip/2026) under Ministry of Shipping.
3. Register on the portal and keep a valid Class III digital signature certificate ready.
4. Download the bid document, confirm the contract value, the quantity to be reclaimed and the completion period, then check the ₹1,00,00,000 EMD and the ₹8,850 fee.
5. Submit your bid online before 24 November 2026, 3:00 PM.

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