The Capital Development Authority (CDA) has again taken a step forward in outsourcing cleanliness and garbage collection services for the city of Islamabad after cancelling similar tenders several times in the last 18 months.
The authority is in the process of considering technical bids from the three joint ventures which are bidding on the two major waste management contracts in the capital for urban and rural areas.
The NJC-MMC-Imperial Venture and Atlas Pak Waste Management Company (APWMC) joint ventures have offered bids for Package I and two other joint ventures by NJC, Three Brothers Construction, and Nazir Luk & Co, are competing for Package II, sources said.
The technical evaluation process will be completed and financial bids will be opened.
The CDA has divided Islamabad into two zones of functioning. Package I includes Zones I, II & III and Package II includes Zones IV & V.
Selected contractors will take care of cleanliness of the city, door to door collection of garbage, and transportation of garbage to Losar landfill site in Rawalpindi.
Businesses were told to submit bids on a waste tonne per tonne basis and the payment for the waste would be tied to the quantity of rubbish collected, sources said.
The contracts will be awarded for four years and the CDA is expected to spend almost Rs4 billion each year on these two contracts.
The CDA has been operating sanitation services in urban areas with its own personnel, paying for hired machinery and engaging private personnel since the termination of previous contracts in March last year.
However, there is no proper waste collection system in rural areas where residents have to dump garbage in open areas and drain ways.
Although established in 1960, the CDA has yet to come up with a specific landfill site for the City of Islamabad, and is still operating Losar dumping site in Rawalpindi.
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