These cash contracts assurance a shot in the arm for infrastructure companies, most of which have underutilised or idle labour and equipment. Large EPC projects are coming up for bidding in January-March and they hope to bag some of them. But there will be some aggression in bidding for these projects because people have not got large jobs in two years and they want these to utilise capacity.These cash contracts assurance a shot in the arm for infrastructure companies, most of which have underutilised or idle labour and equipment. Large EPC projects are coming up for bidding in January-March and they hope to bag some of them. But there will be some aggression in bidding for these projects because people have not got large jobs in two years and they want these to utilise capacity.

Of the orders being offered as EPC contracts by the National Highways Authority of India, 6-8 were to be bid out as BOT projects earlier but the government decided to award them as cash projects in view of the unwillingness of the developers to take up these projects.Of the orders being offered as EPC contracts by the National Highways Authority of India, 6-8 were to be bid out as BOT projects earlier but the government decided to award them as cash projects in view of the unwillingness of the developers to take up these projects.