Sorsogon Prefeasibility Study: New Buenavista Landfill Design Build Operate Contract

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) implemented a regional technical assistance, TA 8566: Mainstreaming Integrated Solid Waste Management in Asia, to conduct an assessment of solid waste management practices in five case study cities in Asia and to provide recommendations and best practices that can guide municipalities, ADB project officers and others on how to improve proper waste management and achieve a clean, livable city.

A primary focus of the TA is proposing a project that ADB could support and finance. In the case of Sorsogon City, Philippines, one of the five cities under the TA, the identification of a new landfill site and commencement of the project planning dovetailed with the development of this prefeasibility study, which proposes outsourcing of the design, building and long-term operation of this new landfill.

In addition to designing, building, and the long-term operation of the new landfill, the private contract would encompass the remediation of the closed Buenavista dumping site and the currently operating Bato site. It is proposed that outside professional management will bring multi-project experience of successful landfill project implementation and operation from elsewhere in the Philippines, and that financial contractual incentives tied to detailed objective performance standards will properly motivate their consistent achievement.

This prefeasibility report is to summarize and preliminarily assess key commercial and technical issues for the proposed private sector Design Build Operate model for a new Buenavista landfill. This report should be read together with the Solid Waste Action Plan which features a proposed terms sheet and bid parameters for this concession. This study acts as a pre-cursor to a Final Full Feasibility Study along with fully developed Prequalification and Bidding Documents inclusive of a Draft Detailed Contract, which could follow on from this TA.