The Environmental Protection Department is inviting parties with relevant experience and expertise to bid for the tender to construct an EcoPark in Tuen Mun. The deadline for submission is noon, April 7.

The successful bidder must construct infrastructure for the EcoPark, including site formation, construction of internal roads, drains and sewers, utilities, an administration building, landscaping and ancillary facilities. 

The department said today it aims to make available the lots in Phase I for occupation by tenants by the end of 2006, while the entire construction project is scheduled for completion by the end of 2009.

The 20-hectare EcoPark is one of the key elements of Hong Kong's waste-management strategy to promote the local recycling and environmental industry, adding it can also help jump-start a circular economy.

Central to the EcoPark is a multi-purpose administration building, with management offices, a visitor and education centre, conference rooms and other supporting facilities for use by future tenants.

The Government has published A Policy Framework for the Management of Municipal Solid Waste (2005 - 2014) last December to map out a waste-management strategy that places emphasis on waste reduction and recovery.

The aim in establishing the EcoPark is to provide the recycling and environmental industry with long-term land equipped with basic infrastructure and at an affordable rental cost.

The department said the project can encourage the industry to put more investment in advanced and value-added recycling processes.

Tender documents and details are available at Scott Wilson Limited, 38/F, 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 in the lift lobby on the lower ground floor of the Central Government Offices (East Wing), 20 Lower Albert Road (at Garden Road), Hong Kong.