The Panamanian Association of Business Executives has joined other unions in criticizing the direct extension of the contract with Mexico's ICA.
Fernando Aramburu, president of the Panamanian Association of Business Executives (APEDA) regrets that the contract signed by the Government with the company Ingenieros Civiles y Asociados Asociados (ICA) does not give more options to the National Highway Company (ENA).
The clarification meeting for the tender for the construction of the Panama Children's Hospital was attended by 24 companies.
Prensa.com reports that "Among the companies interested in the contract are Constructora Norberto Odebrecht, FCC Construcciones, Constructora Meco, Ingenieros Civiles y Asociados (ICA), who have won contracts worth millions in this administration" ... and "the firm Mallol & Mallol Arquitectos".
The directorate of the Panamanian State has dismissed a claim submitted by the builder ICA concerning defects on the bidding process used to select the builder of the Convention Center at Amador.
In response to complaints by the Mexican company Ingenieros Civiles Asociados (ICA), the directorate said that the Tourism Authority of Panama complied properly with the format for publishing all the information related to the bidding process, therefore it resolves that the claim is inappropriate.
The Mexican construction firm ICA has pointed to defects in the bidding process in the selection of the builder for the Amador Convention Center.
Now the State Procurement Directorate has five working days to resolve the complaint that has been lodged.
The company that filed the complaint alleges that the Tourism Authority of Panama (ATP) "published and called for the participating companies in act of opening financial bids without first making the three candidates public.
The consortium HPC-Contrata-P&V obtained a technical score of 66 points, compared to 46 and 41 of ICA and Odebrecht, offering to build the Convention Center in Panama for $194 million.
The long awaited opening of envelopes containing the financial proposals of the bidders in the tender for the construction of the Convention Center on the Amador Causeway, in the capital of Panama, has finally taken place.
The companies Constructora Norberto Odebrecht, Ingenieros Civiles y Asociados (ICA), and the consortium HPC-Contratas-PIB have submitted their proposals for the construction of the new convention center.
The best value tender is for the design, equipment, and construction of a center for conventions, events, and exhibitions, in Amador, Panama City.
The consortium will have 26 months to develop the oil dock project at Moin, at a cost of $96 million.
The Costa Rican Petroleum Refinery has awarded the construction and commissioning of the new oil dock to the consortium ICA - MECO, made up of the companies Ingenieros Civiles Asociados de CV and Constructora Meco S.A.
According to the schedule the construction phase is expected to begin during the first quarter of 2012, finishing in the months of June / July 2014. In total this will be 26 months of construction, costing $96 million. The project involves the construction of a dukes quay berth, on which products that the country needs, such as oil, gasoline, diesel and A-1 jet fuel, can be safely downloaded
The project includes the design and construction needed to improve 12.3km of the "Avenida Domingo Díaz" road as part of the city's highway upgrades program.
A consortium headed by ICA's civil construction division has signed a fixed price construct worth approximately $238 million with Panama's ministry of public works to rebuild and widen the main highway running through the center of Panama City, called Avenida Domingo Díaz.