Worley Parsons' BioVision 2020 consortium has been named the successful bidder for the $80 million Mindarie Regional Council waste management project, the largest in Western Australia.
As exclusively revealed in WA Business News last week, the company teamed up with Canadian technology supplier Conporec and funding partner Macquarie Bank to bid for the right to build, own and operate a waste-processing facility at the Neerabup industrial estate north of Wanneroo.
The proposed plant at Neerabup will process about 100,000 tonnes of municipal waste from seven Perth municipalities annually, using Conporec's composting technology.
This will allow Mindarie to substantially reduce the 350,000t of municipal waste it dumps each year in landfill from the region's 500,000 residents in the Cities of Joondalup, Perth, Stirling and Wanneroo, and the Towns of Cambridge, Victoria Park and Vincent.
WorleyParsons was named earlier this year as one of two short-listed bidders for the project, with Total Energy Services Tasmania (in a consortium with waste services company SITA Environmental Solutions) named as the second short-listed bidder.