NHAI has a ₹88.80 crore, five-year operation and maintenance contract open on NH-30 from Ibrahimpatnam Circle to the Telangana border, and the NH-30 maintenance tender closes at 11:00 AM on 16 November 2026.
Seventy kilometres to keep in shape until 2031
The stretch runs from Ibrahimpatnam Circle at km 0.000 to the Andhra Pradesh and Telangana border at km 70.190 of NH-30, the road that used to be NH-221. Part of it is two-lane with paved shoulders and part is four-lane with paved shoulders. PIU Vijayawada handles the contract under reference APDIV-20024 /3/2025-PIU Vijayawada /e-285736, and the portal gives the period as 1,826 days, which is five years to the day.
Operation and maintenance work is steady money of a kind that road builders often overlook. There is no land acquisition to wait for and no design approval to chase. You take over a live highway and keep the pavement, shoulders, drains, markings and signage to the standard written into the contract, with penalties when you do not.
What a five-year O and M bid really asks
EMD is ₹89,00,000, right at 1 per cent of the ₹88,80,00,000 estimate, with no exemption, and the fee is ₹10,000. Bids open at 11:30 AM on 17 November 2026. The money comes in monthly rather than against big milestones, so a bidder with modest overheads and machines already in the Krishna and NTR districts is in a stronger position than a large EPC firm pricing a mobilisation.
This is a patching and drainage fleet, not a construction fleet. A backhoe loader does most of the daily work on drains, shoulders and culvert cleaning. Pothole repair and overlay patches need a small roller and a tipper or two, a motor grader comes out for shoulder regrading after the monsoon, and a concrete mixer handles kerbs, drain repairs and crash barrier foundations. The road construction equipment guide sets out what each machine does on a stretch like this.
Key facts
Tender ID
2026_NHAI_294520_1
Reference no.
APDIV-20024 /3/2025-PIU Vijayawada /e-285736
Issuing authority
National Highways Authority of India, Head Office (Technical), through PIU Vijayawada
Location
NH-30 (old NH-221), Ibrahimpatnam Circle km 0.000 to the Andhra Pradesh and Telangana border km 70.190, Andhra Pradesh
Operation and maintenance of NH-30, the old NH-221, from Ibrahimpatnam Circle at km 0.000 to the Andhra Pradesh and Telangana border at km 70.190. The stretch is partly two-lane with paved shoulders and partly four-lane with paved shoulders.
How long is the contract?
1,826 days, which is five years from the start date.
What is the value and EMD?
₹88.80 crore, with an EMD of ₹89,00,000 and a tender fee of ₹10,000. EMD exemption is not allowed.
Who is the issuing authority?
The National Highways Authority of India, through its project implementation unit at Vijayawada.
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