March 20 (SeeNews) - Bulgaria's Vetrino municipality said on Friday that it has launched a tender for the recultivation of a landfill, which was found to be in breach of EU environmental regulations.
The contract, worth an estimated 3 million levs ($1.6 million/1.5 million euro), will be partially financed with EU funds under Operational Programme Environment 2014-2020, the municipality said in a tender notice.
Currently, there is waste on a 5.84-hectare area at the site, the municipality said.
The deadline for submitting offers is April 13.
Bids will be ranked based on price and quality criteria, with 50% weight each.
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)