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Press Release
Tenders invited for management services provision for EcoPark in Tuen Mun
The Environmental Protection Department (EPD) is now inviting parties with relevant experience and expertise to bid for the contract to provide management services for the EcoPark in Tuen Mun Area 38.
"The 20-hectare EcoPark is one of the key elements of Hong Kong's waste management strategy, as mapped out in the "Policy Framework for the Management of Municipal Solid Waste (2005 - 2014)", to promote the local recycling and environmental industry" a spokesman for the EPD said today (June 9).
"It can also help jump-start a circular economy in the Government's efforts to tackle the urgent and serious waste problem in Hong Kong," he added.
"The objective of establishing the EcoPark is to provide the recycling and environmental industry with long term land equipped with basic infrastructure and at affordable rental."
"This can encourage the industry to invest in advanced and value-added recycling processes," he added.
The successful bidder is required to manage and maintain the common infrastructures and facilities in EcoPark and to assist in monitoring the daily operations of tenants.
"We aim to make available the lots in Phase I for the occupation by tenants by the end of 2006. The entire construction project is scheduled for completion by end 2009." the spokesman said.
Tender documents and further information are available at Scott Wilson Limited on the 38th floor, Metroplaza Tower 1, 223 Hing Fong Road, Kwai Fong, New Territories.
Submissions should be addressed to the Chairman, Central Tender Board and placed in the Government Secretariat Tender Box situated in the lift lobby on the lower ground floor of the Central Government Offices (East Wing), 20 Lower Albert Road (at its junction with Garden Road), Hong Kong before noon on Friday, July 21 2006.
Enquiries can be made by phone at 2410 3713 or fax at 2428 9922.
End/Friday, June 9, 2006
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