SAUNI Yojana Tender: Pumping Station and 22 km Twin Pipeline

The SAUNI Yojana tender for Additional Link 2 and 4 puts ₹685.72 crore behind a pumping station at Wadhwan Bhogavo II reservoir and 22.074 km of twin 3200 mm pipeline, closing 21 September 2026.

Pumping station first, then 22 kilometres of steel

Sauni Yojana Division at Rajkot has tendered this as an engineering, procurement and construction contract. The contractor builds a pumping station at the Wadhwan Bhogavo II reservoir, then supplies and lays a twin mild steel pipeline of 3200 mm internal diameter with an 18.5 mm plate thickness, running 22.074 km from the pumping station to the Link-4 Package-1 approach channel. All allied works sit inside the same price. Operation and maintenance of the commissioned system runs for ten years after that.

The ten year maintenance tail is why this tender gets filed under a services heading on some listings. Read the identification block instead of the heading. Category is Works, the contract form is Works, and the document set carries a separate price bid volume alongside civil, mechanical, electrical and instrumentation specifications. This is a construction contract with a long service obligation bolted on, not a maintenance contract.

Who is equipped for this

Pipe of 3200 mm diameter in 18.5 mm plate is not ordinary water supply work. Each length is heavy, the trench is deep and wide, and welding and coating standards on a pressure main of this size are strict. Bidders need pipeline laying credentials plus the mechanical and electrical capability for the pumping station, which is why the document set splits specifications four ways. The earnest money deposit is ₹6,85,72,000, exactly 1 per cent of the estimate, with EMD exemption allowed and a tender fee of ₹18,000. Bid validity is 120 days and withdrawal is not permitted.

For a machine owner in Saurashtra this is one of the better hire prospects of the year. Twenty two kilometres of open trench moves through farmland and stays busy for months, and the ten year O and M period keeps a smaller maintenance fleet in the area long after laying finishes.

The fleet a pipeline of this size needs

Long boom excavators open the trench, and on a pipe this large you are cutting deep enough to need shoring or benching in most soils. Pipe layers and heavy hydra cranes handle the sections into place. Tippers and dumpers cycle spoil out and bedding material in. Soil compactors and rollers close the trench back up in layers. The pumping station itself brings the usual building spread: piling or open foundation gear, a batching plant, transit mixers, concrete pumps and a tower or mobile crane for the pump house structure. Add welding sets, dewatering pumps and generators across the whole alignment.

Key facts

How to apply

1. Open the official portal: Gujarat nProcure.
2. Search by tender ID 2026_NWRSauniYo_337014_1 (reference no. 8 of 2026-27) under Sauni Yojana Division, Rajkot.
3. Register on the portal and keep a valid Class III digital signature certificate ready.
4. Download the standard bidding document, the civil, mechanical, electrical and instrument specification volumes, the O and M volume, the price bid and the drawings, then check eligibility, the ₹6,85,72,000 EMD and the ₹18,000 tender fee.
5. Submit your bid online before 21 September 2026. Bid validity is 120 days and withdrawal is not permitted.

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