Sone Barrage Tender: Building the ATPS Barrage at Chachai, Madhya Pradesh (Rs 188.08 Cr)

A new barrage across the Sone river at Chachai in Anuppur district is open for bids at ₹188.08 crore on a turn key contract, and the Sone barrage tender closes at 5:30 PM on 3 November 2026.

One structure, three years, a river in the way

The Engineer in Chief of the Madhya Pradesh Water Resources Department, through the Chief Engineer Procurement at Bhopal, wants the ATPS Sone barrage at Chachai built on the Sone river. The reference is 1188/2025-26/Einc/Etendering/ dt. 04-12-2025 and the portal records the value as ₹1,88,07,81,000, the form of contract as turn key and the period as 1,095 days. The portal uses the short form ATPS without expanding it, so confirm the full scope in the bid document.

River structures set their own calendar. Foundation and pier work has to finish inside the dry months, which in this part of Madhya Pradesh leaves roughly October to June, and anything left open when the Sone rises gets damaged.

An unusually small deposit for the size of the job

EMD is a flat ₹50,00,000, with no exemption allowed, and the tender fee is ₹50,000. On a ₹188 crore estimate that deposit is well under 1 per cent, which is low for a barrage and lower than most water resources packages of this size. It lowers the cost of bidding, so expect a wider field, and it makes the qualification criteria in the document the thing that actually filters bidders. Read them first.

Bids open at 12:30 PM on 5 November 2026. The notice has been on the portal since April 2026, so the documents are settled and any corrigenda are already published.

Madhya Pradesh has structure led work open elsewhere too, including the Gwalior ROB tender and the Lukwasa Chandanpura Ogar road tender in Shivpuri.

Plant for working in a river bed

A barrage is a concrete job with a river diversion wrapped around it. Coffer dams and approach bunds come first, built by excavators and tippers moving large volumes in a short window. Pier and raft pours need a batching setup feeding transit mixers, with a crawler crane handling shutters, gates and hoist gear. Wheel loaders keep aggregate moving to the plant through the dry season, and standby pumps are not optional in a river bed.

Anuppur is a coal belt, so operators and tipper fleets are available locally. The scarce resource on a job like this is crews who have poured a barrage raft before.

Key facts

How to apply

1. Open the official portal: MP Tenders (mptenders.gov.in).
2. Search by tender ID 2025_WRD_461722_1 (reference no. 1188/2025-26/Einc/Etendering/ dt. 04-12-2025) under the Engineer in Chief, Water Resources Department.
3. Register on the portal and keep a valid Class III digital signature certificate ready.
4. Download the bid document, confirm the full scope behind the ATPS short form, then check eligibility, the ₹50,00,000 EMD and the ₹50,000 fee.
5. Submit your bid online before 3 November 2026, 5:30 PM.

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