The Guatemalan government endorsed the modernization of La Aurora International Airport, which costs about $117 million, through a public-private partnership.
After the consulting firm Deloitte Tetra Tech was hired to prepare feasibility studies, with the aim of establishing contract models that could be applied to modernize the Guatemalan air terminal, it was recommended that a public-private partnership (PPP) is the most efficient way.
The process to build an Administrative Center for the State of Guatemala is still making progress, but now an cultural and commercial alternative to the complex of public offices has been suggested.
In 2015, the National Agency of Partnerships for the Development of Economic Infrastructure (ANADIE), proposed the construction of the State Administrative Center (CAE by its initials in Spanish) on land belonging to Ferrocarriles de Guatemala located in Zone 1 of the capital of the country.
Seven months after announcing the decision to take up once again the project for construction of a building complex for $240 million, it has now been announced that a tender will be launched later this year.
Included in the portfolio of investment projects that the government plans to develop are the State Administrative Center, an Intermodal Dry Port at Tecun Uman and the Metro Rail.
From a statement issued by the Ministry of Economy:
Guatemala, April 20, 2016. Acting President, Jafeth Franco Cabrera, addressed the fourth meeting of 2016 of the Economic Cabinet, accompanied by the Minister of Economy and representative of the Technical Secretariat of the Economic Cabinet, Ruben Morales.
Three years after the first attempt, the government has announced that the railway project estimated at $200 million will be tendered in 2017 under a public-private partnership scheme.
In 2013 the National Agency for Partnerships for Economic Infrastructure Development (ANADIE) had tried to tender the design and construction of an urban passenger train and a railway terminal, however, it never materialized. Now the government of President Jimmy Morales has taken up the project under the same scheme of a public-private partnership, only evaluating the work at $200 million and not $350 million as projected previously. Diario de Centroamerica reported that the initiative will be presented to Congress.
An announcement has been made in Guatemala that work is being done on a draft specification for the six companies already pre-qualified to participate in the tender, which is now scheduled for the first quarter of this year.
The National Agency for Development Economic Infrastructure (ANADIE) has resumed the process of hiring a company for the construction, maintenance and operation of the State Administrative Center (CAE), after having announced its postponement in December 2015. In order to clear up any doubts and clarify aspects of the project, the company met with representatives of the six companies that have been prequalified. The project has an estimated cost of $180 million.
The current political turmoil is threatening the implementation of important infrastructure projects such as the construction of the State Administrative Center, valued at $200 million.
The resignation of several ministers in Perez Molina's cabinet, including Sergio de la Torre, Economy Minister and Commissioner for competitiveness, Juan Carlos Paiz, both members of the board of the National Agency for the Development Partnerships Economic infrastructure (ANADIE) complicates the near future of planned projects to be developed in the form of public - private partnerships.
Out of a portfolio of seven infrastructure projects estimated at $1.3 billion and which are essential to the economic development of Guatemala, only one is just beginning to see the light.
The project to build the State Administrative Center, estimated at $200 million, is the only one that has started to be implemented since the National Agency for Partnerships for Economic Infrastructure Development (ANADIE) was created in 2013.
Two investment projects totaling $200 million are mired in the bureaucratic processes required to start up this type of business model for the first time in Guatemala.
S21.com reports that "The National Agency for Partnerships for Economic Infrastructure Development (ANADIE) plans to put out to tender the construction of Puerto Seco Intermodal Tecum Uman, located in San Marcos, and the Administrative Center of the State, in the capital , before the end of the year, but due to bureaucratic processes it is still not known on what date these contests will be started.
Railways, an industrial park, port terminals, and roads are concrete investment projects that will be presented during the next Guatemala Investment Summit 2013.
The National Alliance for the Development of Economic Infrastructure (ANADIE by its initials in Spanish) is preparing a series of infrastructure projects that will be presented during the 2013-Guatemala Investment Summit organized by the Chamber of Industry (CIG by its initials in Spanish) for next May, with the expectation of attracting over U.S. $1.3 billion in investments this year.
A recently passed law allows the government to declare that an infrastructure project is of ‘public interest’, making it easier to expropriate the required properties.
The Bill of Alliances for Economic Infrastructure Development (APD) created a new institution called the National Agency for Alliances in Economic Infrastructure Development (ANADIE). This entity will maintain a public registry of all the projects and will be responsible for declaring public interest, collective utility or social benefit when conducting an expropriation.