Gue-Pong Road Tender, Himachal Pradesh (BRO ICBR-III, ₹284.39 Cr)

The Border Roads Organisation has tendered the Gue to Pong road upgrade in Himachal Pradesh at ₹284.39 crore, covering 28.460 km to national highway single lane specification, with bids closing on 24 September 2026.

Twenty-eight kilometres in the high hills

This Gue-Pong road tender covers construction and improvement of the Gue to Pong to Mha road under India China Border Roads phase three, from km 0.000 to km 28.460, taking the existing alignment up to national highway single lane specification on EPC mode. The work sits under 108 Road Construction Company and 759 Border Roads Task Force, both part of Project Deepak, and the tender is run from the Chief Engineer Project Deepak’s office at Shimla.

The estimate is ₹284.39 crore. The EMD of ₹2,84,39,471 is 1.00 per cent of that figure to the rupee, which settles any question about the value being a misprint. EMD exemption is marked as allowed on the notice, but since the deposit still tracks the estimate exactly, the arithmetic here corroborates the number rather than clouding it. The tender fee is ₹30,000, the contract is lump-sum in two covers with 120-day bid validity, and submissions open 9 September before closing 24 September 2026.

The document set runs to the NIT, draft agreement, RFP, technical schedule and BOQ. Anyone who has bid Project Deepak work before will know the technical schedule is where the altitude, working-season and mobilisation constraints actually live.

Who wins work like this

Border roads at 28 km are a specialist market and the bid history shows it. Garg and Garg, LSR Infracon and a handful of regional names account for most of the bidding on this authority and work type, with Garg and Garg carrying thirteen wins across thirty-nine bids. A contractor without hill-road credentials and a plant fleet already positioned in Himachal or Ladakh will struggle to price the mobilisation honestly.

For machine owners in Himachal, this is the kind of contract that keeps a fleet busy for seasons rather than months, but it comes with real conditions. Work windows are short, access is single lane while construction runs, and equipment that goes up does not come down quickly. Rates reflect that, and so should any hire agreement signed against this job.

What the job demands from a fleet

Hill-road upgrade work is excavator country before anything else. Hydraulic excavators with rock breakers do the bulk of the cutting, since widening to national highway single lane specification through this terrain means benching into rock rather than importing fill. Tippers shift the muck to designated dumping sites, and backhoe loaders handle drains, breast walls and the constant small works along the alignment.

Protection works carry the rest of the programme. Retaining and breast walls, culverts and crash barriers pull in concrete mixers, transit mixers and small batching capacity that has to be sited close to the front because haul distances are punishing. Soil compactors and small rollers do the layer work, and a motor grader trims the formation between lifts. Drilling equipment comes in wherever controlled blasting is permitted.

Key facts

How to apply

1. Open the official portal: Defence e-Procurement (defproc.gov.in).
2. Search by tender ID 2026_BRO_783925_1 (reference no. CE (P)DPK/EPC-03 of 2026-27) under the Border Roads Organisation, HQ Chief Engineer (Project) Deepak.
3. Register on the portal and keep a valid Class III digital signature certificate ready.
4. Download the NIT, RFP, draft agreement, technical schedule and BOQ, then check eligibility, the ₹2,84,39,471 EMD and whether you qualify for the exemption noted on the tender.
5. Submit your bid online before 24 September 2026. Submissions open from 9 September 2026.

More on DesiMachines

Himachal Pradesh has both border-road and industrial civil work open at the moment. The Border Roads Organisation’s hill-road upgrade near Shimla is the closest comparison for anyone pricing altitude and access risk, while the Una bulk drug park effluent treatment plant tender at ₹273.49 crore closes 17 August for contractors working the plains side of the state.

Browse more live tenders in Himachal Pradesh or see all live tenders. For the fleet, compare excavators, backhoe loaders, compactors and concrete mixers, or check equipment finance before committing machines to a hill posting.

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