Six Days to Price a ₹41 Lakh Road in Dondaicha Varwade

A Six-Day Window for a ₹41 Lakh Road

Dondaicha Varwade Municipal Council published the tender on 22 October 2026 and closes submissions on 28 October.

Six calendar days, including a Sunday, to price a percentage-rate bitumen road worth ₹41,06,405.

The Directorate of Municipal Administration template — tender 2026_DMA_1346314_1, notice series DVMC_TENDERNOTICE_15_1, issued under the Government of Maharashtra — allows no pre-bid meeting and no clarification window.

The published terms, in short:

- Published: 22 October 2026
- Closing: 28 October — six calendar days, including a Sunday
- Estimated value: ₹41,06,405, percentage-rate bitumen road
- EMD: ₹41,000
- Document fee: ₹2,000, non-refundable
- Completion period: 270 days
- Pre-bid meeting and clarification window: none

Percentage Rate Puts Site Risk on the Contractor

Percentage rate means the bidder prices the council's estimated quantities and absorbs whatever the site delivers.

Marshall mix, tack coat, sub-base correction — all of it lands on the contractor after award.

EMD is ₹41,000. Document fee ₹2,000, non-refundable, on a job whose gross margin at typical municipal rates will not clear a few lakh.

The Location Clause Is the Tell

The road runs from Mahadev Mandir to Shri. Narendra Rajput's house, Ward 12, renumbered Ward 13.

The description carries no chainage and no asset ID.

Tender documents that locate a road by a temple and a private residence describe a network held in memory rather than in a register.

That matters commercially.

A stretch that cannot be referenced by chainage cannot be scheduled against performance or ranked against competing ward works on anything except political sequence.

Dondaicha, in Dhule district, runs on a cotton and agri-trading base that does not fund deferred maintenance. Ward works arrive as rolling patch tenders, not as a maintained asset plan.

270 Days of Monsoon Allowance

Nine months — 270 days — for a single ward road is monsoon allowance, not engineering.

The schedule was templated alongside the clauses.

Before You Bid

The awarded contractor absorbs the quantity delta. The one who walked the Mahadev Mandir stretch before bidding captures the upside, because six days rules out everyone else.

Contractors pricing DMA micro-packages should read this tender as the template it is: compressed bid windows and percentage-rate quantity exposure without pre-bid dialogue.

Price the site survey into the rate or decline the work.

The contractors who treat ₹41 lakh tenders as filler are the ones who fund a municipal council's maintenance backlog out of their own margin.