March 23 (SeeNews) - Bulgaria's Kyustendil municipality said on Monday that it has launched a tender for the design and construction of a facility for pretreatment of municipal solid waste and a composting installation, worth an estimated 7 million levs ($3.8 million/3.6 million euro), VAT excluded.
The pretreatment facility should have an annual capacity of 15,500 tonnes, while the composting installation should be able to handle 3,000 tonnes annually, the municipality said in a tender notice.
The project benefits from EU funding under Operational Programme Environment 2014-2020.
The deadline for submitting offers is April 23.
Bids will be ranked based on price, with 40% weight in the final score, and technical criteria.
Bulgaria and the EU are jointly providing some 300 million levs in the 2014-2020 programming period for recultivation of municipality-owned waste deposit sites in the country. The investments envisage closure and recultivation of old waste depots which are in breach of environmental requirements as well as setting up new regional systems for waste management. There are about 110 such waste depots in the country, some of which have already been recultivated.
(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)