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D V Sridhar Murthy stated that to investors who delegate “In the pre-bid phase, we did
his company does work for the engineering work to various the estimation of the quantities,
large concessionaires who bid contractors and appoint the constraints, key issues associated
for and win major government Consultancy to oversee the work with the project and costing basis
projects, among others. “Some for time and quality control. the market rate analysis. Our job
of the concessionaires have “We generally do a PMC by is to give them accurate quantity
their own construction wings, having a dedicated team there. for the bidding, then is up to the
some outsource to the other There are a couple of projects appetite of concessionaire to win
contractors available in the where we have worked from the bid.”
market. They want us to do the bidding stage to completion, “Our work is mainly on the
the supervision of the quality one is near Vishakhapatnam, the cost and not the revenue side.
assurance and quality control other near Hyderabad. These are We estimate YoY maintenance
part of the construction work. both national highway projects cost to the project. Routine
That includes quality, time, and won by a large construction maintenance projects include
financial control to ensure the group. cleaning highways and other
project’s successful completion
within specified timelines.
Handing over the project to
the authority happens at a later
date. Our job ends when the
construction part is over. Once
the completion certificate is
issued by the relevant authority,
our PMC services come to an end.
That’s where we will hand over
the project to the concessionaire
and he will operate and maintain
it for the period awarded to him.”
The Company also does post
construction work awarded
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