Soyla Reservoir Tender, Jhalawar Rajasthan (₹681.71 Cr)

The Soyla reservoir tender puts ₹681.71 crore of turnkey water infrastructure into Jhalawar district on an item-rate contract, with bids closing on 27 August 2026.

What the Jhalawar package covers

Rajasthan’s Water Resources Department, through the Kalisindh Irrigation Project Division at Jhalawar, has tendered the Soyla Artificial Reservoir Project at village Soyla in Raipur and Jhalarapatan tehsils. It runs on EPC single-responsibility turnkey terms across schedules 1 to 8, so design and execution stay with one contractor from start to handover.

The estimate is disclosed at ₹681.71 crore. The EMD of ₹13,63,41,944 works out at exactly 2.00 per cent of that, which corroborates the figure even though the notice records that EMD exemption is allowed. Tender fee is ₹80,000 offline. This is a two-cover open tender, but note the bid validity is only 21 days, unusually short and worth factoring into your rate build-up. Submissions opened the day the notice went out and the bid opening is at Jhalawar on 31 August.

Who should chase it

The department’s bid history here shows something you rarely see on packages this size: a set of genuine local regulars. Mashapuran Construction, Balaji Construction of Jhalawar, Gautam Enterprises and Merotha Construction all show heavy participation on this authority and work type. That means the competition is known, it is regional, and a firm without a Hadoti track record is walking into an established field.

Nineteen days to close on a ₹680 crore turnkey job is short. If you are pricing it, the reservoir earthwork quantities in schedules 1 to 8 are where the bid is won or lost, not the structures. Machine owners around Jhalawar, Kota and Baran should treat this as a hire opportunity first, because a reservoir of this size runs a standing fleet for a long stretch, and the winning contractor will be renting rather than buying most of it.

Fleet the reservoir will run on

An artificial reservoir is an earthmoving contract wearing a water project’s name. Basin excavation and embankment dominate: large excavators on the cut, dozers spreading and pushing, and a tipper fleet sized to the haul lead between borrow and bund. Motor graders trim each embankment layer and heavy vibratory compactors bring it to density. On bund work the compaction fleet is what governs progress, not the excavation.

The Hadoti belt sits on hard rock in places, so budget breakers and drilling capacity rather than assuming free digging. Inlet, outlet and spillway structures pull in batching plant, transit mixers and cranes for gate erection and larger pipe sections. Water tankers are a standing line item through the dry months here, and on a 21-day pricing window they are easy to under-cost.

Key facts

How to apply

1. Open the official portal: Rajasthan e-Procurement.
2. Search by tender ID 2026_WRDAS_583704_1 (reference no. NIT 09 of 2026 27 CE WR Zone Kota) under the Water Resources Department, Kalisindh Circle Jhalawar.
3. Register on the portal and keep a valid Class III digital signature certificate ready.
4. Download the NIT, tender document and BOQ, then confirm eligibility, the EMD of ₹13,63,41,944 and the ₹80,000 tender fee.
5. Submit your bid online before 27 August 2026.

More on DesiMachines

Rajasthan’s Water Resources Department now has four large packages running at once, and two of them sit in this same Jhalawar district. The Manoharthana dam and pressurised irrigation tender at ₹802.55 crore and the Chhoti Kalisindh irrigation project tender at ₹611.74 crore both close on 2 September. Further north, the Dhanoti reservoir tender in Churu at ₹800.07 crore closes a day before this one. Anyone building a Rajasthan water bid book should be reading all four together.

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