Sofia City Hall Announces Winning Waste Plant Bidder

The waste treatment plant will be located near the village of Yana, adjacent to Sofia. The groundbreaking ceremony took place in April last year. Photo by BGNES

The Sofia City Hall has ranked first the offer of the consortium between the Bulgarian “Stanilov” company and the German “Heilit” in the public tender for a builder of a waste treatment plant in Bulgaria's capital.

The news was officially announced Wednesday by the Bulgarian news agency BTA. Sofia's Mayor, Yordanka Fandakova, has already signed the order approving the ranking.

“Stanilov-Heilit's” price offer is BGN 208 808 700 while the cost for maintenance of the equipment is BGN 9 427 949 per year. The Greek-German consortium between “Helektor” and “Hochtief,” offering BGN 240 614 029 and BGN 9 828 899 respectively, ranked second.

The signed decision is being sent to the other bidders, which have 10 days to appeal it. The “Stanilov” company, which belongs to Bulgarian businessman, Georgi Stanilov, is taking part in the construction of the Sofia metro and has contracts to build several waste treatment facilities around the country. Stanilov had not yet commented on the news

It is expected that the signing of the contract and the groundbreaking might be delayed by 2 to 3 months since some of the bidders have already announced they will appeal the procedure before the Commission for Protection of Competition. The rejected offers include major Bulgarian companies such as “Glavbolgarstroi,” “Balkanstroi,” “Valmex,” and “Holding Patishta.”

The Bulgarian daily “Dnevnik” cited on Tuesday their own undisclosed source saying the eliminated bidders failed to fulfill important requirements such as having experts in the design and the construction of similar projects or annual turnover of at least BGN 200 M for the last 3 years while one bidder had been discarded over problems with its business registration.

The construction deadline is 2 years from the date of the signing of the contract. The plant will be located near the village of Yana, adjacent to Sofia, and it has already been delayed by a year.

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