The Spanish-American consortium made up of Ayesa Ingeniería y Arquitectura S.A, The Louis Berger Group and Metro de Barcelona will be responsible for the project management.
The Secretariat of the Panama Metro has awarded PML2 Consortium (Spanish-American) contract for Project Management (Project Management) of Metro Line 2.
According to a statement issued by the Secretariat of the Metro, "...
The Dutch-American Consortium will analyze the best alternative for building a vehicular pass in the Atlantic end of the Canal.
lowest among the five participants, $895.000.
The remaining participants were T-Y-Lin/ Fugro Panamá/ Mott MacDonald/Omniconsult ($ 943,000.00), Moffat & Nichol/ Arup USA, Inc ($ 954,059.00), The Louis Berger Group/Amman&Whitney/ D2 Consult ($ 1,248,713.92) and TYPSA / CFC SL ($ 1,495,000.00).
Odebrecth, URS Holdings and FCC Construcción are among the companies bidding for the project.
A coordination meeting (homologación) will be held on December 10th, while bids will be opened on December 21st.
"The future project is called 'Proyecto Curundú', and comprises transforming 160.000 square meters in the vecinity of Juan Demóstenes Arosmena Stadium and the Farmer's Market.
Groups "Poyry / Cal y Mayor", "Coteba", "Metro de Madrid / Mintra" and "Metro de Barcelona / Sener", submitted their bids.
On the other hand, URS Holdings and Parsons-Brinkerhoff, which had been shortlisted, decided not to bid for the consulting contract, which has a maximum price of $2 million.
"A committee composed by technicians from IDB, CAF and the Metro Secretary will evaluate the bids.
IDB and CAF announced the six consortiums pre-selected for advising through the entire Metro project.
These are URS Holdings Inc. (U.S.A.), Parsons-Brinkerhoff (U.S.A.), Metro de Madrid (Spain) , Metro de Barcelona (Spain) , COTEBA (France) y POYRY/Cal y Mayor y Asociados (Switzerland and Mexico), informed Roberto Roy, executive secretary of the Panamanian Metro.