Coimbatore–Tirupur waste-to-energy plant tender deadline extended to 31 October 2026

This opportunity is a tender for a waste-to-energy plant serving the Coimbatore-Tirupur cluster in Tamil Nadu, India. The only source is a Times of India news article dated 30 September 2026, not an official tender notice or tender documents. The project was announced in the 2025 Tamil Nadu state budget. The plant is proposed at the Vellalore dump yard in Coimbatore, with a processing capacity of 1,200 tonnes of waste per day. Waste from the Coimbatore corporation area and from Tirupur would be processed there. The article does not formally name the contracting authority. It refers to the state government and to "the corporation", meaning the Coimbatore corporation.

The project cost is put at Rs 450 crore. According to a local activist quoted in the article, the core technology is waste incineration, and the machinery is to be imported. The article gives no other scope, technical standards, lots, procedure type, contract model, contract duration or operating period. It also gives no information on how or where bids are submitted, the language of the bid, or a Q&A deadline.

The tenders were uploaded in February 2026. The application deadline has since been extended several times, in April, July, August and September. The latest extension moves the deadline to 31 October 2026.

The article also reports local opposition. A Tirupur activist says the project has attracted no investors. He calls incineration unsustainable and points to the closure of the Kodungaiyur plant in Chennai after fly-ash health complaints. The Kurichi-Vellalore Pollution Prevention Action Committee asks for decentralised waste management instead of a cluster plant at Vellalore and calls for the project to be dropped.

The article sets out no eligibility, experience, staffing or technical requirements and no award criteria. These would be in the official tender documents, which were not provided. They should be obtained from the issuing authority before the requirements can be listed.