Bainguinim waste plant seeks govt nod to float 4th tender
While politicians locked horns over a new solid waste management plant at Bainguinim, the Goa Waste Management Corporation (GWMC) has approached govt for approval to float a new tender for setting up the plant.
Once govt approves the proposal, a request for qualification (RFQ) will be floated for the fourth time.
A fresh tender would be floated for a 250 TPD (tonne per day) the waste management plant at Bainguinim. 'Once approved by govt a fresh tender would be floated,' a senior officer said.
The Rs 200 crore public-private partnership (PPP) project will be built on a design-build-finance-operate-transfer (DBFOT) basis, wherein the plant infrastructure will be erected by the concessionaire along with operations and maintenance for a period of 10 years.
The facility will be based on recycling and sorting lines, segregation, bio-methanation, and composting systems.
The bidding process for the PPP project will be divided into two stages. In the first stage, the RFQ stage prospective bidders will be shortlisted. In the second and final stage or the request for proposal (RFP) or invitation of financial bids, the shortlisted bidder will be given the RFP.
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 the GWMC.
The GWMC held a public hearing, and the environmental clearance was also obtained. At the time, the corporation also invited RFQs for the proposed plant.
In Aug 2021, all three bidders in the first tender were disqualified, as none were found eligible. Recently, Union minister for state and North Goa MP Shripad Naik urged govt to shift the plant from Bainguinim, considering the sentiment of the people.
Waste management minister Atanasio 'Babush' Monserrate and Cumbharjua MLA Rajesh Faldesai were disputing over the setting up of the waste management plant at Bainguinim.
Making it clear that the location of the project will not be changed, the Panaji MLA said that he was not sure if Faldesai would be there as an MLA when the project was inaugurated. 'He (Faldesai) will be there to lay the foundation stone (for the plant), but I am not very sure if he will be there to inaugurate it,' Monserrate said.
'We are firm that the plant will come. He was asking me for the last two and a half years, and I was telling him that the plant will come. He was ensuring that the plant did not come. He is trying to protect his people, and I don't want to comment on that. The plant will come up at Bainguinim,' Monserrate said.
After Monserrate predicted the political future of Faldesai, the Cumbharjua MLA said that Monserrate will not get re-elected in the next assembly election.
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