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Council tendering for Island transfer station
Bass Coast Shire Council will soon go to tender for a transfer station on Phillip Island.
At the July Ordinary meeting, Council resolved to proceed to a selected tender process for the siting, design, construction of the Phillip Island Resource Recovery Centre.In late February Council went to the market seeking Expressions of Interest for a new transfer station on Phillip Island. This allowed Council to test the market and gain a more detailed understanding of market interest, costs, and the range of solutions that may be available to provide a facility on the Island.
Council will now prepare the documents for a selective tender process and invite a number of the EOI submitters to prepare submissions.
With the tender documents being prepared and going to the market in September, a report will come to Council for consideration in February 2018.
One option Council will consider is a BOOT model where Council’s finances are smoothed over a 10 year period, and Council owns the asset at the conclusion of the contract to ensure the community would have ongoing access to a public facility.
Bass Coast Mayor, Cr Pamela Rothfield, said the majority of information is commercial in confidence, meaning details could not be made public at this stage.
"We want to make sure there is a competitive process to ensure the community gets best value for money," Cr Rothfield said.
"The industry sector is up to date with all the latest innovation and we hope to capitalise on this knowledge."
Council will consider and make provision within its Long term Financial Plan and Strategic Resource Plan for the resources required for the project to move forward where a favourable tender process is achieved. An allocation can then be made within the 2018/19 budget to manage this project.
Works will not commence until the 2018/19 financial year on allocation of funds.
Whilst Council works through this process the public place recycling facility on Dunsmore Road, Cowes provides a municipal waste facility where residents can dispose of their household and garden waste.
For more information contact:
Simone Short
media communications officer
t (03) 5671 2703 | f (03) 5671 2222 | m 0400 804 187
e simone.short@basscoast.vic.gov.au
Source: www.gippsland.com
Published by: support@gippsland.com
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