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$10 Million Overpaid by Mistake in Costa Rica

A calculation error in converting cubic to linear meters in street cleaning caused the National Highway Council to pay in excess.

Friday, February 27, 2009

The problem was revealed by the Comptroller General of Costa Rica when the tendered contracts of 22 projects were studied.

In her article in Elfinancierocr.com, Leticia Vindas detailed that, "The comptroller asked Conavi's Governing Board to implement improvements in the information and records systems to support the documentation that is generated in this process, as well as for the identification of the personnel responsible for the design and supervision of such activities."

Source: elfinancierocr.com

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The National Highway Council will be extending for 12 months road maintenance contracts worth $151 million because of the inability to carry out new tenders.

It is the second consecutive time that the National Roads Authority (COSEVI) has requested authorization from the Comptroller General of the Republic to extend for 12 months highway maintenance contracts.

Costa Rica: Highway Maintenance Contracts Re-awarded

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The National Comptroller's Office has annulled the award of 22 road maintenance contracts.

Nine companies had presented a total of 11 appeals against the decision to award contracts to the construction companies Hernán Solís, Meco, Quebradores del Sur and Orosi.

"The reasons include acknowledgement that the Costa Rican Highways Authority (Conavi in Spanish) was unable to state the calculations used in the award as private," reports Nacion.com.

Costa Rica Halts Road Maintenance Contracts

March 2010

The board of the National Road Council (Conavi), stopped a process to award 22 contracts worth $226 million.

Conavi staff had recommended awarding all contracts to a single company, “Constructora Hernán Solís”.

Back in October 2009, Conavi invited companies to bid on these 3-year road maintenance contracts. 12 companies participated in the process, but 10 were disqualified.