The General Directorate of Migration and Immigration in Costa Rica is putting out to tender an intelligent international migration control system.
Government Purchase Costa Rica 2017PP-000013-0016200001:
"Requirements are for the acquisition, implementation, maintenance as per securityand quality requirements, of a technological solution for migratory control, that integrates Biometrics and Reliable Passenger, as well as the issuance of Migratory Documents, that comply with the recommendations indicated in Document 9303 of the ICAO, in addition to the supply of the different notebooks for the aforementioned documents, using PKI technology, Ordinary Passport, Emergency Passport, Safe Conduct, Travel Documents, Travel Identity Documents and Neighborhood Permits.
In Guatemala the government is preparing to make a new diagnosis of the immigration control system to structure a new tender in the future.
The Ministry of the Interior in Guatemala has announced that feasibility studies are to be made for implementing a new system for migration control and also that they could be willing to build the foundation to develop a new contract, though a date for the competition was not given.
A contract was awarded to the Swiss company Security Assistance Group, SA but it is one of the disputed contracts in the context of the corruption that has been uncovered in the country.
The contract was awarded in July 2014 and the tender was made in the form of "emergency contract".
"... This was one of the contracts challenged last week by the business sector, which demanded that the President cancel it as part of the "specific actions" needed to curb corruption. "
The Ministry of the Government of Guatemala has awarded Security Assistance Group Guatemala the development of a system for the registration and documentation of migration control in the country.
The ministry tendered the work in the form of "Contract by case of emergency."
From the terms of reference of the tender:
"The DEPARTMENT will make a contract for Specialised Technical Services for the development of high-tech systems for the registration and documentation of immigration control at the country's borders.
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