The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has released lists of prequalified bidders for seven road projects under the DBFOT model. Final bids for these public private partnership (PPP) projects have to be submitted on September 29th (the three first projects of the table below) and 30th (the four final projects of the table below). The submission of the final bids will be done in e-tendering mode. InfraPPP India understands that the RFQs are already available in the e-tendering system.

Name of the road	Length (km)	State	Model	Bidders
2-Laning Jowai- Meghalaya/ Assam Border section (km 69.200 -.173.200) NH-44	104	Megha-laya	BOT (toll)	List  (29 bidders)
4-laning Hospet-Chitradurga  NH-13 (299+0 - 418+6)	119.6	Karna-taka	BOT (toll)	List (27 bidders)
Rehabilization of Cuttak-Angul NH-42 (km 00.0000 - 112.0000)	112	Orissa	BOT (toll)	List (27 bidders)
4-laning Raipur/Bilaspur section  (km 00.0 - 125.200) NH-200	125.2	Chattis-garh	BOT (toll)	List  (33 bidders)
6-Laning Agra-Etawa section of NH-2 from (km 199.660 -323.525)	124.1	Uttar Pradesh	BOT (toll)	List (33 bidders)
Rehabilization of 4-laning of MH_ KNT _Border-Sangareddy section km 348 ti jn 493 - NH-9	145	Karna-taka and Andra Pardesh	BOT (toll)	List (24 bidders)
6- Lanning Etawah-Chakeri (Kanpur) Section of NH-2 (km 323.475- 483.687)	160	Uttar Pradesh	BOT (toll)	List  (24 bidders)

Some of these RFQs were submitted in 2010.

• The location of the first project (in the state of Meghalaya) in the table has made it not very attractive to foreign bidders

• In the 6-Laning of Agra-Etawa section of NH-2 we can see a new player in the Indian market: Ascendi -the highway operator owned by the portuguese contractor Mota Engil- in a joint venture with a strong local player, Essar Infrastructure. We can also see Hochtief, the german contractor controlled by Spanish conglomerate ACS in a joint venture with SREI Infrastructure. A Russian joint venture formed by Transtoy and OJSC has also qualifed.

• In the 4-laning of Hospet-Chitradurga we still can see the very succesful joint venture of Soma Tollways and the Spanish Isolux Corsan. In other qualifications Soma is bidding on its own and Isolux has joined forces with C&C Construction.

• In the Rehabilization of the section Cuttak-Angul of NH-42, bidders were the same as for the 4-laning of Hospet-Chitradurga.

• In the 4-laning of Raipur/Bilaspur we highlight three partially foreign consortia: MSK-IIF-Leighton (subsidiary of  Hochtief), Essel Infrastructure (which bagged one of the last projects) with Assignia Infraestructuras and Tril roads with the Italian motorway operator Autostrade.

• In the Rehabilization of 4-laning of MH_ KNT _Border-Sangareddy we highlight the following partially foreign consortia: Welspun-Leighton, Isolux Corsan- C&C Construction, PNC - San Jose (Spanish company that recently bagged Jaipur ring road with Supreme Infrastructure),  Transtoy - OJSC. 

• Bidders for 6- Lanning Etawah-Chakeri (Kanpur) Section of NH-2 were the same as for the Rehabilization of 4-laning of MH_ KNT _Border-Sangareddy.