Location
Fiji / Global islands
Project record
Fiji Kinoya wastewater treatment and Laucala Bay outfall programme
ADB lists CW02 international prequalification as closed after a 17 July 2026 deadline and says tender documents for the Kinoya wastewater treatment plant upgrade are being finalised. The estimated US$104.85 million operate-design-build-operate package includes five years of operations and maintenance. Its 36 MLD first stage will disinfect treated effluent before reusing the existing 2.4 km Laucala Bay ocean outfall; the reviewed package does not identify a new offshore pipeline.
Segment
Marine utilities
Status
ADB lists CW02 international prequalification as closed with a 17 July 2026 deadline; tender documents are being finalised / Confirmed
Last checked
16 August 2026
Coverage
Related sectors
Marine utilities is the primary work classification. Related sectors connect this record to adjacent marine delivery and market coverage.
Subject index
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Project anatomy
Contract scope and delivery roles
- Client / authority
- Water Authority of Fiji
- Delivery parties
- CW02 design-build-operate contractor not appointed; ADB lists international prequalification closed on 17 July 2026, Miya S.A.R.L. (separate Greater Suva non-revenue-water performance contract)
- Contract route
- ADB-financed international open competitive bidding with prequalification for CW02, a design-build-operate contract including five years of operations and maintenance; the February 2026 plan applies prior review, a 70:30 merit-point evaluation, and an estimated US$104.85 million package value
- Execution window
- ADB's current project page lists CW02 prequalification as closed with a 17 July 2026 deadline and says tender documents are being finalised. The February 2026 procurement plan scheduled the international process from Q2 2026; the final loan agreement closes on 30 June 2033. Current public records do not provide the shortlist, invitation-to-bid date, award, detailed-design, construction, commissioning or operating-start dates.
- Works package
- Operate-design-build-operate upgrade of Kinoya wastewater treatment plant to a 36 MLD / 180,000 population-equivalent Stage 1, including inlet pumping, screening and grit removal, primary and secondary treatment, tertiary treatment, sludge and co-digestion systems, disinfection, commissioning, and five years of operations and maintenance
- Marine interfaces
- Disinfected treated effluent returns to Laucala Bay through the existing approximately 2.4 km HDPE ocean outfall. The reviewed ESIA and procurement plan do not identify a new offshore pipeline, diffuser, dredging, or marine-construction package.
- Commercial evidence boundary
- CW02 creates a defined US$104.85 million international DBO opportunity concentrated in treatment-process design, civil and mechanical works, controls, commissioning, effluent compliance, sludge systems, operator capability, and five-year performance. The existing outfall remains an operating and monitoring interface, not an evidenced new marine works award.
Project timeline
Material developments
Dated events that changed scope, counterparties, delivery, commissioning or operating status.
Open this project in the Change LogADB lists CW02 prequalification closed and tender documents in preparation
The current ADB project page records a 17 July 2026 prequalification deadline and a closed status, correcting the earlier 28 August date observed on the utility listing. The shortlist, bidding documents, award, notice to proceed, construction and accepted performance remain unpublished.
SourceProcurement plan defines a US$104.85 million DBO with five years of operations
The plan fixes CW02 as an international, prequalified, prior-review design-build-operate competition with a 70:30 merit-point evaluation. It defines a major treatment and operating package but does not add a new offshore outfall or marine pipeline.
SourceSeparate Greater Suva water-loss contract awarded to Miya
ADB records a US$25.03 million performance-based non-revenue-water contract to Miya S.A.R.L. This is a programme delivery milestone but is separate from CW02 and does not identify a Kinoya DBO contractor or any marine works award.
SourceADB financing became effective
Effectiveness moved the programme beyond signature into an active financing period. Procurement completion, field mobilisation, plant construction and environmental performance require later evidence.
SourceFinal US$135 million loan agreement signed
The signed agreement fixes the controlling loan amount and a 30 June 2033 closing date. Together with the separate US$10 million grant it supersedes the older approval-news split, but financing signature is not a construction or operating milestone.
SourceADB approved the Healthy Oceans and Water Security programme
Approval established the sovereign programme and its intended water-security and Laucala Bay outcomes. It did not define CW02 award, detailed design, construction start, effluent compliance, or measured ecosystem recovery.
SourceEnvironmental assessment defines plant-side upgrade and reuse of the existing outfall
The assessment establishes 36 MLD Stage 1 treatment, disinfection, and discharge through the existing approximately 2.4 km Laucala Bay outfall. It also cautions that wider bay pollution has multiple sources, limiting any claim that plant completion alone proves ecosystem recovery.
SourceEvidence gap
What remains unverified
Outstanding evidence
- CW02 prequalification outcome, shortlist, bidding documents, award, and notice to proceed
- 36 MLD Stage 1 process design, hydraulic tie-in, disinfection, sludge and co-digestion scope
- Condition and operating envelope of the existing 2.4 km Laucala Bay ocean outfall
- Commissioning evidence against BOD, suspended-solids, faecal-coliform, ammonia, nitrogen, and phosphorus limits
- Bay-wide monitoring that distinguishes Kinoya discharge effects from other point and non-point pollution sources
Sources and related records
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Source collections
Project sources 7
- Fiji Healthy Oceans and Water Security Improvement Project Asian Development Bank, Current status reviewed 16 August 2026
- Report and recommendation for Fiji Healthy Oceans and Water Security Improvement Project Asian Development Bank, 11 September 2025
- Healthy Oceans and Water Security Improvement Project environmental and social assessment Asian Development Bank / Water Authority of Fiji, 2 June 2025
- Fiji Healthy Oceans and Water Security Improvement Project procurement plan Asian Development Bank, 26 February 2026
- Fiji Healthy Oceans and Water Security Improvement Project loan agreement Asian Development Bank / Republic of Fiji, 23 September 2025
- ADB approves support for ocean health and water security in Fiji Asian Development Bank, 12 September 2025
- Water Authority of Fiji current tender list: CW02 Kinoya wastewater treatment plant Water Authority of Fiji, Current list reviewed 15 July 2026