Bidding Process Open for 3 Waste Transfer Vessels for North Region and other Regions

The bidding opportunity for the manufacture and supply of 3 Waste Transfer Vessels under the Maldives Environmental Management Project and Climate has been announced in the 8 October edition of the Government Gazette.

The opportunity is open to suitably experienced and qualified national and international parties to submit their bids on or before 1100 hrs on November 13, 2012.As planned, all the activities that need to be carried out to establish the Regional Waste Management Facility is to be completed by November 2013, and its service will be available to the citizens of the North Region by the beginning of 2014.

The Maldives Environmental Management Project began in 2008 under a USD 13.8 million loan facility from the World Bank. This project is operated by the Project Management Unit of the Ministry of Environment and Energy. The two main objectives of this project are to improve and develop a socially and environmentally sustainable system of solid waste management in the North Region that reduces the associated environmental and public health risks and that can be replicated and scaled up across the country, and to strengthen the national technical capacity and quality of local expertise in environmental management/monitoring.

The projects that are operating under the Climate Change Trust Fund include the Clean Energy for Climate Mitigation (CECM), Wetland Conservation and Coral Reef Monitoring for Adaptation to Climate Change (WCCM) and Ari Atoll Solid Waste Management Pilot (AASWM). These projects funded by the European Union (6.5 million Euro) and AusAID (1 million Australian dollars) will be managed by the World Bank until the end of March 2015 under the supervision of the Ministry of Environment and Energy.