Before you can read anything else on this site, it helps to know how a job at Dholera is handed out, because the route decides what the rupee figure next to it actually means. There are four routes in this data and they are not interchangeable.
A tender notice goes up on the DICDL website. Firms that want the work submit their papers through a state procurement portal called nProcure. DICDL picks one, issues a letter of award, and the winner starts. The part that is missing is the middle: no tender reference number and no pre-bid cost estimate is published against any award, so the notice and the award cannot be tied together by an outsider.
The four routes, in plain words
Engineering, procurement and construction
One firm is handed the whole job. It does the design, buys the materials and builds the thing, for one agreed sum. If the work costs more than the firm expected, that is the firm's problem rather than the client's. Six of the eleven Dholera awards were given out this way.
Printed in the source as: EPC
Item rate
The client lists the work item by item, so many cubic metres of concrete, so many metres of pipe, and the firm quotes a rate against each item. The final bill depends on how much of each item actually gets used, so the total can move. The fire station was awarded on this basis.
Printed in the source as: Item Rate contract
Public private partnership
The private firm pays to build it and then runs it for an agreed number of years, keeping what it earns. Here DICDL is not paying anything out. It receives a management fee instead, and the operations period runs for ten years. Tent City works this way.
Printed in the source as: PPP (Public Private Partnership), 10-year operations period
Plot sold at auction
This is not a construction contract at all. DICDL puts a plot of land up for auction, the highest bidder wins it, and a letter of award confirms the win. The rupee figure that gets reported is what the buyer says it intends to invest on that plot, which is a promise rather than a payment. Two plots have gone this way.
Printed in the source as: Plot allotment through E-Auction; Letter of Award
Which route each contract took
Every Dholera award with a named winner, and the route it was awarded by. Source: DICDL annual report for 2024-25
| No.Item | Work | Route it was awarded by | Went to | Award dateISO |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Integrated Healthcare Facility | EPC | Joint venture of M/s SCC Infrastructure and M/s P. R. Patel & Co. | 2024-12-16 |
| 02 | Food Court | EPC | M/s. SCC Infrastructure | 2025-05-07 |
| 03 | Integrated School | EPC | M/s Build Well Engineers | 2025-02-28 |
| 04 | Accommodation Facilities for Investors | EPC | M/s Unique Builders | 2025-03-27 |
| 05 | Fire Station | Item Rate contract | M/s Aditya Infrabuilcon Pvt. Ltd. | 2025-02-28 |
| 06 | Tent City | PPP (Public Private Partnership), 10-year operations period | M/s Kamnath Private Limited | 2025-03-27 |
| 07 | ABCD Building | EPC | M/s. Cube Construction Engineering Limited (CCEL) | not published |
| 08 | Water Treatment Plant | not stated | M/s. SPML Infra Limited (SPML) | not published |
| 09 | Residential and Commercial Mixed-Use Development | Plot allotment through E-Auction; Letter of Award | M/s GAP Associates (referred to elsewhere in the report as GAP Group) | 2024-11-14 |
| 10 | Corporate 3-Star Hotel | Plot allotment through E-Auction; Letter of Award | M/s Seksaria Buildcon LLP, in joint venture with The Amore Banquet | 2024-12-24 |
| 11 | Service Area Building | EPC | Nila Infrastructures Limited | not published |
Source: DICDL 9th Annual Report 2024-25 (audited, signed 2025-08-22), pages 22 to 29 and page 100. The route is printed in the report as the award basis. All rows last verified 2026-08-04 against the cited page.
One record, the terminated water treatment plant, has no award basis printed anywhere and is shown as not stated rather than assumed to be EPC.
What is never published
Two things are missing from every single award
A tender reference number is the code that ties a published notice to the contract that came out of it. Not one of the seventeen records carries one. Without it you cannot start at a notice and follow it through to a winner, or start at a winner and find the notice that produced it.
The other missing piece is the estimate. Before bids open, a client normally works out what it thinks the job should cost. Comparing that estimate against the winning bid is how anyone judges whether a tender got a good price. No Dholera award publishes an estimate, and the live tender page shows none either, so that comparison cannot be made here by anybody.
The six tenders currently open are listed on the open tenders page, and what each figure means once an award is made is set out on price or project cost.
Sources: dholera.gujarat.gov.in/tenders, retrieved 2026-08-04 for the open tenders; DICDL 9th Annual Report 2024-25 (audited, signed 2025-08-22) for the awards. Both gaps are declared inside the published dataset.