In the tender for supervision of the construction of the South Terminal of the Airport of Tocumen five companies have submitted bids valued at around $19 million.
The five bids were below the reference price of $22 million. The business groups who submitted bids to oversee the construction of the multi million dollar terminal /0} had prices which varied by no more than $2000.
With an investment of $20 million the Crowne Plaza Panama Airport will be constructed, one minute from Tocumen International Airport.
Intercontinental Hotels Group and Bern Hotels & Resorts have signed an agreement to build the Crowne Plaza Panama Airport, which will be located on the premises of Global Business Terminal in Torremolinos, Tocumen.
The project which will open in the next 24 months, will be the closest to the Tocumen International Airport, a distance of about one minute.The hotel will have 126 rooms, a restaurant, exercise room, business center, bar and meeting rooms, however there are plans to increase the number of rooms to three thousand in the future.
The Public Procurement Directorate ordered the management company of the airport terminal to suspend the tender for the redevelopment of the Immigration and Customs area.
This is the second time that the bidding is suspended due to complaints filed by the participants.
The claim, admitted by the directorate, was presented by the consortium Azyza-As-Fagar, who is dissatisfied with the score received in the line of previous experience.
Spain’s Global Exchange complained before the Airport Council of Latin America and the Caribbean of irregularities in the award of currency exchange services.
In a letter presented to the president of the ACI-LAC, Philippe Baril, Global Exchange remarks the long process for the award of the concession for currency exchange services at Tocumen International Airport.
In Panama, the administrators of Aeropuerto Internacional Tocumen SA are putting out to tender comprehensive inspection and monitoring services for the construction of the South Terminal.
The purpose of the tender is the procurement of Comprehensive Monitoring Services, Inspection and Control of Construction Works Project of the South Terminal of the International Airport of Tocumen.
In a reversal of the decision of having them administered by Tocumen SA, the airports of David, Colon and Rio Hato will be granted in concession to private companies.
The Panamanian government now believes that it would not be suitable for Tocumen SA to manage – along with Tocumen International Airport - these airport terminals, which are being remodeled at a cost of $138 million.
President Martinelli has announced that in November there will be a tender for an ‘airport city’ in the east of Panama City.
At the opening of the Expo Logistics Panama in the Atlapa Convention Center, Martinelli reported on the development of Panama as a global logistics hub, and infrastructure projects in the making.
The Administration of Tocumen International Airport has put out a tender for the design and construction of a new access road to the cargo terminal.
The tender is for the study, design and construction of airport facilities at the Access Control Point and operational reorganization of existing infrastructure, and the freight terminal of the International Airport of Tocumen, SA
The Brazilian company Norberto Odebrecht, with an bidding price of $679.4 million, will build the South Terminal of Tocumen International Airport.
The tender also featured the participation of Costa Rican Meco, Conalvías group from Colombia, and the China Harbour Engineering Company. A total of 33 companies were interested in bidding, participating in the approval process of the tender.
Six consortia have presented bids for $10 million for the refurbishment of the Immigration and Customs area.
The least expensive bids were by the consortia Landscape Vision Corp. and Remodelación Sector Migración for $8.87 million.
Meanwhile the bid by the consortium Ceinsa y SC Aeropuerto was $8.88 million and the rest were over $9 million.
Prensa.com reports that, "Ramon Zambrano, project manager of Tocumen SA, explained that the work will take about eight months. Upon completion it will allow the handling of the volume of passengers for the next three years, when construction of the south terminal is expected to be finished.
The technical proposals have finally been opened in the tender for the construction of a South Terminal at Tocumen International Airport, which will require an investment of $600 million.
The Brazilian company Norberto Odebrecht, Costa Rica's Meco, and Grupo Conalvías from Colombia, along with the China Harbour Engineering Company, were the four companies who submitted proposals for the required technical and financial proposals.
The opening of bids, originally scheduled for August 13, 2012, has been extended to August 22.
This postponement is due to modifications made in the specifications, which now include the refurbishment of the existing terminal and its connection with the new extension.
"The construction of the South Terminal, which will have 20 gates and allow Tocumen to receive between 15 million and 17 million passengers a year, is estimated to cost about $400 million.
The Airport Administration has amended the requirements for the tender for the design and construction of the South Terminal, increasing the amount of reserves which businesses must have to $100 million.
The reserve amount was originally established at $60 million, and with the change it has increased by $40 million. This amount will not form part of the financial offer to be submitted by companies.
The date of the tender for the design and construction of the southern terminal at Tocumen International Airport has been postponed until August 13, 2012.
The administration of the airport terminal, at the request of the companies involved in the project, has agreed to postpone the ceremony for the opening of bids scheduled for August 3.
Among the thirty-one companies who participated in the approval meeting are Sacyr, Odebrecht and Riva.
42 companies met yesterday with representatives of Tocumen SA for details of the works spanning 65,000 square meters and which have an estimated cost of $400 million.
The works comprise the construction of a main building, a third runway, a taxiway, a control tower and access areas to the North Terminal.
"Juan Carlos Pino, general manager of Tocumen, SA, said that with the construction of the South Terminal, Tucumen will have the ability to move 16 million passengers a year, compared to the 8 million it is currently handling", writes José Antonio De Gracia, for Panama America.