NHAI introduces performance assessment rating, contractors scoring below 70 face ineligibility

Bhubaneswar: The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has introduced a comprehensive rating system for performance assessment of the Concessionaires engaged in the National Highway development and maintenance.

Under this system, concessioners will be evaluated every six months and ratings will be uploaded on the NHAI website and its social media handles. The contractors scoring below 70 in ratings to face ineligibility for new projects.

The Assessment Methodology will be based on the Pavement Condition Index (PCI) as well as Defect rectification compliance on the NHAI One App where over 95 defects can be notified and monitored digitally shall also form a part of the rating assessment. Eighty Percent weightage would be given to PCI and Twenty per cent weightage would be given to compliance on the NHAI One App.

PCI, a scientific metric ranging from 0 to 100, reflects pavement conditions from ‘Excellent’ to ‘Failed’, as per IRC 82:2023 guidelines. PCI will be calculated based on six functional parameters that include roughness, potholes, cracking, Ravelling, Rut Depth and Patchwork. The data for PCI value will be calculated using the latest technology such as Laser Crack Measurement Systems through Network Survey Vehicles (NSV) and will be surveyed and processed through centrally deployed agencies by NHAI under the supervision of a dedicated team.

As per the assessed ‘Concessionaire Rating Value’, Concessionaires will be divided into different categories. Contractors scoring less than 70 out of 100 rating will be declared ‘non-performers’, thus becoming ineligible to secure new National Highway projects till improvement in its rating.