The Guatemalan Social Security Institute is putting out to tender radiology services and diagnostic images at the Jalapa site and diagnostic images at the site in Villa Canales.
Guatemala Government Purchase 4322800:
"Services of Radiology and Diagnostic Imaging of Patients of the Guatemalan Institute of Social Security IGSS, Department of Jalapa.
The Costa Rican Social Security Department has announced the purchase of X-ray equipment (Stage IV).
Procurement procedure No. 2015LN-000002-3110
Contracting Entity: Costa Rican Social Department (CCSS)
Type of procedure: National Competitive Bidding
Contractual object: STAGE IV X-RAY EQUIPMENT
Opening the competition: 04/06/2015 Opening of bids: 08/27/2015
The Tax Authority of Guatemala is putting out to tender rental of equipment for two nonintrusive inspection systems using X-rays for La Aurora International Airport.
S21.com.gt reports that "interested companies should collect the tender conditions and specifications from the Financial Administration department, in the central offices. Bids will be received in those offices on April 25 from 8:00 until noon. "
The Tax Authority of Guatemala has denied the existence of a consensus among Central American countries to implement a unified charge.
The Superintendency of Tax Administration (SAT) of Guatemala denied that there is a consensus among countries to implement a one-time charge for reviewing scanned merchandise flowing through the region, as announced by the Directorate General of Customs of El Salvador.
Using the format of abbreviated tender an award has been given to Maxis-Construction Rigaservices for the construction and equipment of an imaging center at the San Miguel Arcángel hospital.
The Ministry of Health (MoH) made the award to the Consortium Maxis-Construction Rigaservices in the abbreviated best value tender for the study, design, construction and equipping of the imaging center and semi-intensive unit at San Miguel Arcángel hospital.
Authorities plan to purchase these devices for both sea and land ports, and to charge a flat rate per container.
This was announced by the chief of Interior, Mauricio Lopez. He added that the goal is for every container passing through these customs offices to pay between $15 and $20.
"... This plan will support the phytosanitary and prohibited goods inspections.
The Tax Authority has approved the implementation of a pilot program in customs offices which will reduce the time it takes to inspect containers.
According to the Indendent of Customs, Filadelfo Reyes, the plan will come into effect on August 2. "We want to facilitate foreign trade operations in customs with this new methodology," the official said.
Two mobile scanners for inspecting containers, with a value of $6 million, have been abandoned and left to deteriorate outside for three years.
Now the manufacturer, the Chinese company Nuctech, will be responsible for repairing and maintaining the two X-ray machines which are valued at $6 million and were donated by their Government and which have been damaged after being abandoned for three years.
The Costa Rican Social Security Department is putting out to Tender nine X-ray machines for the hospitals Calderon Guardia, Mexico, San Juan de Dios, Escalante Pradilla, Ciudad Neily and Monseñor Sanabria.
The call is for the Public Acquisition of nine X-ray machines for conventional use for single studies of various types (column and overhead) or modalities (digital or analog).
Businesses who provide agricultural materials in Guatemala are complaining about delays and additional costs related to the review of containers with chemical precursors.
After the detection in Guatemala of the manufacture of synthetic drugs, mandatory controls have been introduced on containers loaded with chemical precursors, led by the Attorney General, the Division of Narcotics Analysis and Information (Daia) and the Superintendency of Tax Administration (SAT), in the ports of Quetzal and Santo Tomas.
Port operators are protesting over the expected collection of $5 to $10 for the examination of each container using a scanner, which takes away competitiveness.
Payments to cover the costs of maintaining two scanners have created differences between port operators and the National Customs Authority (ANA in Spanish). One is in the port of Balboa and the other in Manzanillo International Terminal in Colon.
The Salvadoran Association of Industrialists has expressed its disagreement with a draft reform of the Customs Simplification Act.
A press release from the Salvadoran Association of Industrialists (ASI) states:
The Salvadoran Association of Industrialists expressed its disagreement with the draft reform of the Customs Simplification Act, submitted to the Legislature by the Ministry of Finance, considering that the inspection tax has becomes a non-tariff barrier to international trade.
Businesses in El Salvador have drawn attention to the need to revise the rule on payment of a fee of $20 per container for performing X-ray revisions when going through customs.
The Inter-Union Commission for the Modernization of Customs (Spanish acronym CIMA) will meet to review the amendments to the Customs Simplification Act.
One of the main observations is that Article 12B, which authorizes a $20 fee for the X-ray service could increase costs for some companies, said the president of the CIMA, Rogelio Tobar according to Laprensagrafica.com.
As of February 16th the National Customs Authority will charge a fee for the use of the new scanners.
Ten new scanners installed at ports and customs offices are expected to be in operation next month and at the same time the new charge will come into effect.
The authorities haven’t yet established the amount of the fee, but said that it will be a “minimal” charge.