(Left to right) Colette Brown, Adrian Lewis, Public Services minister Bernard Flouquet and deputy minister Scott Ogier at yesterday’s discussion of the department’s solid waste report. (0583484)

EIGHT companies have been shortlisted to provide a solution for solid waste disposal. A report from the Public Services Department detailing them and how the decision was reached is scheduled to go to the States in July.

The draft, which also covers tender documentation and the criteria against which those on the list will be assessed, was yesterday passed by the department.  Mass-burn incineration remains on the table, as do  mechanical biological treatment and some combinations, giving the range of options that deputies were looking for when they threw out the planned £80m. incinerator.

Much of the department’s discussion centred on the weighting in the assessment of financial criteria compared with technical factors, which encompassed environmental issues.

A split of 60% financial, 30% technical and 10% management was proposed by consultants, who acknowledged that other jurisdictions had gone for a different split.