After the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) floated the tender twice and gave several extensions, the civic body will finally have a contractor for the Rs600 crore waste-to-energy plant that will be constructed at the Deonar dumping ground.

Financial bids from three companies are being scrutinised after all of them qualified for the work and civic officials said that a contractor will be finalised early next month. The BMC first started the bidding process for the project in 2016. But the project had no takers and no one responded to the proposals. However, in September, the BMC finally got responses from three bidders including one European and two Indian companies.