Chitrakoot Link Expressway Tender, ₹568 Cr Six-Lane EPC

UPEIDA has opened the Chitrakoot Link Expressway tender, worth ₹568 crore for 15.172 km of access-controlled greenfield six-lane on EPC mode, closing 24 September 2026.

Scope of the Chitrakoot Link Expressway tender

The package runs from design chainage 0.000 to 15.172 km and is procured by the Uttar Pradesh Expressways Industrial Development Authority on engineering, procurement and construction terms. Greenfield and access-controlled means a fresh alignment built to expressway standards, with grade separation rather than at-grade junctions, so the structures content is high for a stretch this short.

The portal groups the value in a ₹500 crore-plus band; the notice figure is ₹568.00 crore, and the EMD of ₹11,36,00,000 is exactly 2.00 per cent of that, which settles which number to work from. Tender fee is ₹59,000, payable offline. It is a lump-sum contract in two covers with 120 days of bid validity. Submissions open on 10 September and bids are opened on 25 September. The document set is substantial: two highway volumes, two structures volumes, the RFP, the EPC agreement and miscellaneous schedules, about 79 MB in all.

Who this is for

Fifteen kilometres at ₹568 crore is roughly ₹37 crore per kilometre, which is expressway money rather than highway money and tells you the structures, land treatment and access control carry most of the cost. This suits mid-to-large highway contractors with expressway experience, not a firm stepping up from state road work.

UPEIDA’s bid history on this work type is an open field with no dominant incumbent across 134 past tenders, and the regulars include PNC Infratech, Ashoka Buildcon, Kalyan Toll Infrastructure and Dineshchandra R Agrawal Infracon. Bidding closes seven weeks out, which for once is a workable window to price properly. For machine owners in Chitrakoot, Banda and Prayagraj, the useful signal is timing. Award will land late in the year, and mobilisation on a greenfield alignment happens fast once it does.

Plant the alignment will demand

Greenfield means starting from farmland, so clearing, grubbing and formation come before anything else. Excavators and dozers open the corridor, tippers move the cut and borrow, motor graders set the subgrade and heavy compactors close each layer. On a Bundelkhand alignment expect a hard stratum in places, which brings breakers and drilling into the picture.

Access control on a six-lane section means structures at every crossing: underpasses, vehicular and pedestrian, plus interchange ramps. That is piling rigs, cranes, batching plant and transit mixers running alongside the earthwork rather than after it. The pavement layers then need pavers, tandem and pneumatic rollers, and a crusher feeding aggregate to keep up with a compressed programme.

Key facts

How to apply

1. Open the official portal: Uttar Pradesh e-Procurement.
2. Search by tender ID 2026_UPEID_1175521_1 (reference no. UPEIDA/2023/2665/Vol-VII_CLE) under the U.P. Expressways Industrial Development Authority.
3. Register on the portal and keep a valid Class III digital signature certificate ready.
4. Download the RFP, EPC agreement, highway and structures volumes and the BOQ, then confirm eligibility, the EMD of ₹11,36,00,000 and the ₹59,000 tender fee.
5. Submit your bid online before 24 September 2026.

More on DesiMachines

Chitrakoot is having a busy season. The NH-135BG Chitrakoot to Satna widening tender covers the corridor heading into Madhya Pradesh and closes on 19 August. The state’s biggest live road job is the Lucknow to Sitapur six-laning tender on NH-30 at ₹1,123.24 crore, closing 18 September, worth reading alongside this one if you are weighing a UP bid programme.

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