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PanamaCompra to improve information system

The company is looking to offer more security and guarantee to system user and to make progress in automating the government purchase cycle.

Friday, November 21, 2008

Representatives of the Department of Public Contracts and Chilean company, SONDA S.A., signed the order yesterday to proceed with the installation of the new PanamaCompra computer platform.

This new project will transform the the computer platform allowing PanamaCompra to...

Source: pa-digital.com.pa

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Costa Rica: "New" System for State Purchases Still on Paper Only

April 2015

Two months after having announced a new platform to centralize purchases of goods and services from the State, the contract with the state telecom company Racsa is still "under review".

After several months of discussion about which system should be chosen in order to centralize government purchasing procedures, the Ministry of Finance announced in January the creation of a new platform , which would be based on the operating system Mer-Link and would be developed by RACSA. However, the new system is still on hold and purchases are still being made using the previous two platforms, Mer-Link and CompraRed.

Costa Rica: New System for State Purchases

January 2015

In a "Solomonic" decision, the Ministry of Finance has decided to settle the dispute between CompraRed and Merlink, ordering the development of a new platform, giving the moribund state telecom company RACSA something to do.

EDITORIAL

With the introduction of the yet to be developed Integrated Public Procurement System (SICOP by its initials in Spanish), an end could be given to the bitter struggle between different groups of state officials and private providers over "their" respective public procurement systems.

New Rules for Panamanian Public Purchases

October 2009

Social interest acquisitions will have shorter bidding periods and there will be a new purchasing modality, called shortened tender.

This modifications, sponsored by the Economics and Finance ministry, will change the Public Purchases Law (Law 22 of 2006).

"From now on, it will be possible to make the bidding process over 10 to 40 days for acquisitions larger than $5 million.

New Information Technology System for PanamaCompra

April 2009

With an investment of $3 million, the State’s Director of Procurements intends to launch PanamaCompra version 2.0 by mid-2009.

Since its implementation 27 months ago, there have been over 180 thousand procurements in which some 13 thousand companies participated for an amount over $2.2 billion.