The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has received bids from five contractors in response to its tender to build the skywalk outside the station in Bandra East. The civic body will take a month to issue the work order. Meanwhile, the estimated project cost has increased more than four-fold to an estimated Rs 83 crore (excluding 18 per cent GST) after the earlier contract—awarded for Rs 19 crore—was scrapped. Civic officials have attributed the cost increase to the larger dimensions of the skywalk, including its length and width, and the addition of three escalators and steel construction.

The BMC floated a tender on June 26 for the reconstruction of the skywalk. The skywalk was in the news after it was closed after the collapse of Himalaya foot overbridge at CSMT in 2019. After two structural audit reports and a Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute (VJTI) report indicated the skywalk needed repairs, the BMC decided to reconstruct it as the cost of repairing the existing structure was high. The earlier contract was awarded after inviting a tender in January 2022 for a part of the skywalk from Bandra station to the court at Anant Kanekar Marg.