New tender for Bainguinim waste plant in 15 days: Michael Lobo

PANAJI: Waste Management minister Michael Lobo on Sunday said that the state government will float a new tender within the fortnight for setting up of the solid waste management plant at Bainguinim. Lobo said that the tender document is “ready, with modified criteria”.
Lobo told TOI that as per the earlier tender document not a single bidder was eligible as decided by Central Public Work Department (CPWD) and that was the reason the state government is now issuing a fresh tender with modified criteria.

The plant, estimated to cost Rs 200 crore is expected to cater to the entire Tiswadi taluka and would have facilities for recycling and sorting lines, segregation, bio-methanation and composting systems.
Last month all the three bidders had been disqualified, after which the Goa Waste Management Corporation (GWMC) started a fresh tendering process. The companies that had expressed interest were Hindustan Waste Treatment pvt ltd, Maaviya Engineering Consultants pvt ltd and Three R Management pvt ltd. The bids of these firms had been placed before the technical advisory committee for scrutiny. Due to inadequate offers received, the state government had extended the time for accepting bids four times, the last being on January 31.
In 2008, the Corporation of the City of Panaji (CCP) acquired land at Bainguinim to set up the waste management plant and in 2017 the land was handed over to GWMC. A public hearing was held by GWMC and the environment clearance was also obtained. The corporation had also invited a request for qualification (RFQ) for the proposed plant.
GWMC decided to undertake the project through a public-private partnership (PPP) on a design-build-finance-operate-transfer (DBFOT) basis, wherein the plant infrastructure will be implemented by the concessionaire along with operations and maintenance for a period of ten years.
Union Ayush minister Shripad Naik had said the location identified for the solid waste management facility at Bainguinim is “wrong and the government has to rethink over it”.