South Central Railway Tender

Supplying and stacking on Railway ground alongside the alignment at specified locations/at depot machine crushed, clean, hard, angular and durable stone ballast for railway track not inferior in quality to the approved samples including collection from outside Railway limits and leading by the contractor's vehicles including loading, unloading and stacking in specified quantities with all contractor's labour, tools, vehicles, crew, consumables with all lead and lifts, rehandling, crossing of alignment, if required etc., complete as per specifications and special conditions of contract and as directed by the Engineer-in-charge. NOTE : i) Payment will be made on actual stack measurements. No deductions will be made towards voids. ii) The contractor has to make his own service roads wherever required if not available or if the existing service roads are not sufficient for leading the ballast. iii) At some locations it may be necessary to rehandle the ballast by crossing of embankment if required as there is no direct access to the place of stacking. The rate quoted is inclusive of these charges. iv) The contractor should supply measuring boxes, wire claws, sieves of required gauges and labour for the purpose 1 of sieve analysis as directed by the Engineer-in-charge. No extra rate will be paid and the rate quoted is inclusive of the same. v) The ballast has to be supplied and stacked at locations as directed by the Engineer-in-charge without causing infringement to the proposed formation. vi) The rate provided includes clearing the bushes and shrubs, cutting the ground and making the approaches for stacking the ballast. vii) The contractor's attention is drawn to para 2.3 of Specifications for track ballast, IRS-GE-, June, 2004 for size specified in Annexure ie., Retained on 65mm sq. mesh sieve - 5% max. Retained on 40mm sq. mesh sieve - 40% to 60% max. Retained on 20mm sq. mesh sieve not less than 98% for Machine crushed Ballast. Payment for over sized ballast will be made as per para 2.3.2 of "Specifications for track ballast, IRS-GE-1, June, 2004". viii) The Tenderer(s) are required to submit Ballast Test Report/ certificate from any testing laboratory as mentioned at Annexure -A of Special conditions-Technical, for abrasion, impact and water absorption value as per provisions of "Specifications for track ballast, IRS-GE-I, June, 2004" along with tender, failing which their tender will be summarily rejected. Such test report should not be older than 03 (Three) months before the date of opening of Tender. Name of the quarry, location and distance by road from quarry to ballast depot are to be indicated. Ballast test certificate submitted from other than the testing labs at Annexure-A of Special conditions Technical, will be summarily rejected