The Costa Rican Institute of Aqueducts and Sewerage tenders the construction of the building for the National Water Laboratory.
Costa Rican Government Purchase 2019LI-000013-PRI:
"The Costa Rican Institute of Aqueducts and Sewerage, plans to develop the project of the Construction of the new Building of the National Water Laboratory in its property located in San Rafael de la Union de Cartago.
The government has announced that it will allocate resources to buy 13 properties and format them for use as care homes for minors.
The government has announced that on top of the 50 million quetzales ($6.5 million) that had been requested for purchasing property for use as child care centers, another 25 million quetzales ($3.2 million) will be added, bringing the amount to nearly $10 million.
Six companies will be able to present bids to build the complex of government offices for $200 million, including the much questioned Brazilian company Odebrecht.
The remaining five shortlisted firms are the Spanish group Ortiz Construcción y Proyectos Guatemala, Instalaciones Inabensa Spain, Consorcio CAE Guatemala, Gia Constructora and Edificadora y SBI International Holdings. From now on companies will have 3 months to submit their proposals.
Odebrecht, ICA and the mexican company Marhnos are some of the foreign companies that could be interested in building the State Administrative Center, estimated at $180 million.
Grupo Spectrum and Constructora Nacional S. A. (Conasa) are the only two Guatemalan companies so far, according to authorities, who have shown interest in participating in the pre-qualification process for construction of the State Administrative Center in form of a public-private partnership.