India, July 9 -- The Union road transport and highways ministry plans to centralise the software platform for real-time bridge health monitoring by engaging the Indian Institute of Technology Madras and Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), even as the supply, installation and maintenance of sensors will be awarded separately through competitive bidding under a new standardised tender model for all upcoming projects.

In a July 6 circular, the ministry said all bridge health monitoring system (BHMS) components in highway contracts, where physical work has not yet commenced, must be removed and re-tendered using the new Model Request for Proposal. The move is aimed at creating a uniform framework for deploying continuous re...