New Delhi April 10

The Indian Railways has cancelled its first station modernisation bidding process wherein it had qualified about seven companies based on technical evaluation. It has now issued a fresh tender — reinviting bids from consultants — for a relatively narrow scope of work.

Earlier, it had invited expressions of interest from consultants to advise Railways on the detailed design parameters, technical, financial and legal aspects of the process to be adopted for modernising the New Delhi Railway Station.

It had already technically qualified about seven firms for providing advisory services that include the Italy-based Grandi Stazioni SpA Via, Chinese firm East China Architecture and Design Institute and the UK headquartered Mott Mac Donald.

Modernisation Plan

However, the Planning Commission recently asked the Railways to define broad parameters only and let developers design the stations, as was followed in the airport modernisation plan.

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