The government has chosen the winning bidder for the design, construction and 15-year operation of an organic waste recycling centre in east Cotai.
A consortium consisting of four companies has won the tender. The winner, according to government announcements yesterday, will carry out the design and construction for a price tag of 1.147 billion patacas, after which it will receive 720 million patacas from the government during the new facility’s 15-year-operation period.
The future recycling centre will be able to generate electricity by processing organic waste such as kitchen waste.
The consortium will be required to complete the recycling centre’s design and construction in three years and two months.
The consortium will be required to pay 30 percent of its revenue generated by the centre’s operation to the government during the 15-year period.
The agreement signed between the government and the four-company consortium for the centre’s design, construction and operation was published by the Financial Services Bureau (DSF) in the Official Gazette (BO) yesterday.
The Environmental Protection Bureau (DSPA) launched a public tender in November 2022 for the centre’s design, construction and 180-month operation.
A total of four consortia submitted their respective bids, which were unsealed by DSPA officials in February last year.
The quotations proposed by four bidders ranged from 1.867 billion patacas to 3.286 billion patacas.
After bid assessments, the bureau had recently announced the winner for the tender on its website, the bidder which offered the lowest price – 1.867 billion patacas. The four-company consortium consists of China Railway First Group Company Limited Macau Branch, Tongfang Environment Company Limited, Zhejiang Wangneng Environment Protection Company Limited, and Omas Construction Group Limited.
The organic waste recycling centre will be located next to the city’s only construction waste landfill in East Cotai.
The recycling centre, which will cover an area of around 30,000 square metres, will comprise kitchen waste processing plants and wastewater treatment plants.
The DSPA website notes that the centre will generate electricity through biogas, i.e., a type of renewable energy similar to natural gas, generated by anaerobic digestion.
According to the website, in the first phase after the centre comes into use, it will be able to process 150 tonnes of kitchen waste per day, and 420 cubic metres of wastewater per day transported by tanker trucks, namely greasy wastewater retained in grease traps in kitchens in restaurants, and wastewater from mobile toilets.
According to the agreement published in the gazette yesterday, the four-company consortium will carry out the organic waste recycling centre’s design and construction for a price tag of 1.147 billion patacas.
During the centre’s 15-year operation, according to the agreement, the government will pay 720 million patacas to the consortium.
According to the DSPA website, the centre’s construction is scheduled to be completed in July 2027.
This artist’s rendition downloaded from the Environmental Protection Bureau’s (DSPA) website yesterday shows the future organic waste recycling centre in east Cotai.
