The Goa Waste Management Corporation (GWMC) has approached govt for approval to float a new tender for setting up of the Baingunim Waste plant. 

Once govt approves the proposal, a request for qualification (RFQ) will be floated for the fourth time.

 
A fresh tender would be floated for a 250 TPD (tonne per day) the waste management plant at Bainguinim, "Once approved by govt a fresh tender would be floated, a senior officer said.

 
The Rs 200 crore public-private partnership (PPP) project will be built on a design-build-finance-operate-transfer (DBFOT) basis, wherein the plant infrastructure will be erected by the concessionaire along with operations and maintenance for a period of 10 years. The facility will be based on recycling and sorting lines, segregation, bio-methanation, and composting systems.

 
The bidding process for the PPP project will be divided into two stages. In the first stage, the RFQ stage prospective bidders will be shortlisted. In the second and final stage or the request for proposal (RFP) or invitation of financial bids, the shortlisted hidder will be given the RFP.
In 2008, the Corporation of the City of Panaji (CCP) acquired land at Bainguinim to set up the waste management plant, and in 2017, the land was handed over to the GWMC. The GWMC held a public hearing, and the environmental clearance was also obtained. At the time, the corporation also invited RFQs for the proposed plant.