GAIL India Invites Project Management Consultant for 100MW Solar + 22MWh Storage Project

en.Wedoany.com Reported - On September 9, GAIL (India) Limited, India's natural gas company, issued a public tender to hire a Project Management Consultant (PMC) for a 100MW ground-mounted solar power plant with a supporting 22MWh battery energy storage system in Maharashtra. The tender number is GAIL/NOIDA/CNP/PROJ/26-40, under the consulting services category, using open tendering and a two-envelope submission method.

This PMC service directly corresponds to the integrated "100MW ground-mounted solar + 22MWh storage" project. The project name registered by GAIL on the central government e-procurement platform is explicitly "Hiring of PMC for Setting Up 100 MW Ground Mounted Solar Project with 22 MWh of BESS in Maharashtra," with the project owner and tenderer being GAIL Projects-Noida.

The planned service period of the tender is 730 days. The pre-bid meeting is scheduled for 15:00 on September 16, 2026, the deadline for bid submission is 15:00 on September 30, and the technical and commercial bids are planned to be opened at 15:00 on October 1. The tender documents require bidders to separately submit technical qualifications, financial qualifications, power of attorney, QCBS documents, integrity pact, and other specified materials, with the price component submitted through a separate BOQ/SOR document.

The procurement target is not PV modules, energy storage batteries, or EPC contractors, but a consulting firm undertaking project management responsibilities. The tender initiates PMC selection at the pre-construction stage, and the subsequent consulting service period covers approximately 24 months, aligning with the project construction implementation cycle. The official e-procurement platform lists the contract form as Item Rate, with the procurement category as Services.

The solar portion of the project adopts a ground-mounted centralized construction approach, with a designed capacity of 100MW, along with a 22MWh battery energy storage system. GAIL has included both parts as a single project in this PMC service procurement, rather than conducting separate independent consulting tenders.

GAIL has continuously increased its renewable energy asset allocation in recent years. In addition to its existing businesses in natural gas transmission, processing, and petrochemicals, the company is also advancing solar, wind power, and green hydrogen projects. This 100MW solar and 22MWh storage project in Maharashtra has now moved from project planning into the engineering consulting service procurement stage, and the PMC bid results will correspond to subsequent project implementation management.