São Miguel do Iguaçu, a municipality in the state of Paraná (southern Region of Brazil), has recently announced that it has published a bidding process for the concession of the municipality solid waste services on a public private partnership basis.

The selected private party will be responsible for the waste disposal and treatment (by using plasma technology) of the municipal solid waste and other non-recyclable waste within the municipality.

The concession has a total estimated value of R$44.981.417,50 (US$12,5 million) and it will have a duration of 30 years.

The deadline for the submissions of proposals is June 28, 2016.

We have recently reported about several water & waste PPP projects in Brazil. The consortium formed by Marquise Environmental Services and Fortnort Desenvolvimento Ambiental e Urbano was recently awarded the PPP contract for the Tubaté solid waste plant project, in the State of São Paulo.