Mobile Faecal Sludge Treatment Modular Unit (MFSTMU)

The British Red Cross has launched an urgent appeal to help support thousands of people who have fled their homes in Myanmar.

Massive numbers of people started fleeing violence in northern areas of Myanmar's Rakhine State into Bangladesh an estimated 519,000 people, many of whom are women and children, have crossed the border into Bangladesh.

As part of the emergency response BRC deploys an emergency Mass Sanitation Module along with hygiene and sanitation specialists' team to improve the hygiene and sanitation conditions amongst displaced people.

BRC is now planning to procure an essential part of equipment that will be part of a faecal sludge management system currently being assembled in Bangladesh.

The Mobile Faecal Sludge Treatment Modular Unit (MFSTMU) (e.g. anaerobic biodigester and/or any other technology/solution suitable for a refugees camps context) the tenderer propose will be part of a faecal sludge management system as per diagram in Invitation to Tender Document.

The treatment system proposed has the aim to remove the contaminants from sewage flows or human excreta from toilets and it can include physical, chemical, and biological processes to produce environmentally safe treated wastewater.