The Indian Railways has floated revised tender for semi high-speed 44 Vande Bharat trains sets. The tender issued is for three phase propulsion, control and other equipment along with bogies for the trains sets.
The pre-bidding meeting will be held on 29 September 2020, while opening date is 17 November 2020.
The train sets will be manufactured at ICF/Chennai, RCF/Kapurthala and MCF/Raebareli. It will be a two-stage, reverse auction.
The revised tender is in line with the government of India’s preference for Make in India policy.The minimum local content percentage has been revised to 75 percent.
It is the first big tender under revised DPIIT norms of Atmanirbhar Bharat having atleast 75 percent domestic components.