Now the Ministry of Health has asked the General Directorate of Public Contracting to reject the claim presented by the consortium Camce Hospital del Niño, in the tender to build and furnish the hospital in Panama.
The work, which has already been five years without being awarded, now depends on what the General Directorate of Public Contracts (DGCP) decides, in response to the proposal of the Ministry of Health (Minsa).
The Third Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice did not admit the warning of illegality presented by the CAMCE Consortium in the tender process for the construction and equipping of the new Children's Hospital in Panama.
According to the report of the Evaluation Commission, published on May 22, 2019 on the PanamaCompra portal, the CAMCE Consortium's proposal, which totaled $613 million, obtained a score of 72 and that of Consorcio Acciona Construcción, S.A., which totaled $614 million, its rating was 87.92. See evaluation details.
A hospital in Panama, a multi-purpose building in Guatemala and a medical device factory in Costa Rica are part of the projects planned for the coming months in Central America.
The interactive platform "Construction in Central America", compiled by the Trade Intelligence Unit at CentralAmericaData, includes an up to date list of public and private construction projects that are expected to be built in the coming months.
The tender to build and equip the new Santo Tomás hospital in Panama, whose publication was originally scheduled for June this year, has still not been held.
In March of this year the Ministry of Health gave assurances that the construction and equipment of the hospital would be tendered in June, but it has not even been able to complete the design and study stage.
The contract for the work has not yet been sent to the Comptroller to be endorsed, despite the fact that it has been nearly two months since the award of the design of the hospital to the consortium DHN.
Bureaucracy in the Panamanian state apparatus has prevented a contract between the Ministry of Health (MoH) and the consortium Diseño Hospital del Niño (made up of the companies Pinearq, S.L.P.
Seven companies submitted bids in the tender for the architectural design, cost analysis and development plans for the new Children's Hospital in Panama.
An article on Prensa.com reports that "... The event took place at the headquarters of the Ministry of Health (MoH) and attended by representatives from American, Spanish and Panamanian companies, which were associated in seven groups: Consorcio Nuevo Hospital del Niño, Hospital del Niño Panamá, Grupo Latinoamericano de Diseño, KMD, Diseño Hospital del Niño, Tapia Watson-Ingeniería Atlántico-Samudio and Symx-Hospital del Niño. "
The Ministry of Health announced that on June 30 it will publish the specifications of the tender for the design and construction of the hospital, with a price tag of $8 million.
PThe new tender will be published in PanamaCompra, where interested companies must use as a reference the "medico-funciona" plan prepared by professional and administrative staff of the Children's Hospital, and must provide 400 parking spaces, areas for kiosks and pedestrian areas.
An announcement has been made for the start of a tender for the design of the plans, with an estimated value of between $8 million and $10 million.
After announcing that the second tender specifications will be published in late 2014 , the Ministry of Health is still working on the development of the specifications for the design of plans for the project .
The Ministry of Health and the construction company IBT Health Group reached an agreement to resume construction of work in hospitals in the provinces of Darién, Los Santos and Chiriquí.
In order to start construction, the Comptroller General of the Republic will authorize the agreements and documents signed between the Ministry of Health (MoH) and IBT Health Group.
The Ministry of Health is preparing specifications for a new tender for construction of the hospital and expects to publish them before the end of the year.
After having detected anomalies and the subsequent cancellation of the tender to build a Children's Hospital, the Ministry of Health has announced the year-end publication of new specifications on the Panama Compra website, after having said that they would be ready in mid-2015.
After suspending contracts awarded to IBT Health Group in April, the government has resumed negotiations and announced that at the end of the year the works on four hospitals in the provinces of Darien, Colón, Los Santos and Chiriqui will be restarted.
It is hoped that with the agreements reached between IBT Health Group and the Ministry of Health (MoH) the hospitals will begin operating in 2016.
The Panamanian Health Ministry is putting out to tender the design, and construction of, as well as equipping and installation of medical equipment, at the new hospital in Bocas del Toro.
Panama Government Purchase 2014-0-12-0-01- 010967 - AV :
"STUDIES, DRAFT DESIGN FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF FINAL PLANS, SPECIFICATIONS , CONSTRUCTION, EQUIPMENT AND INSTALLATION OF BOTH MEDICAL AND NON MEDICAL FIXED EQUIPMENT, MEDICAL AND NON MEDICAL MOBILE EQUIPMENT, HOSPITAL FURNITURE, OFFICE FURNITURE, INSTRUMENTAL FURNITURE, INCLUDING TRAINING AND INSTRUCTION OF PERSONNEL FOR PREVENTIVE AND CORRECTIVE MAINTENANCE FOR (3) YEARS FOR NEW HOSPITAL IN BOCAS DEL TORO, ISLA COLON LOCATED IN THE PROVINCE OF BOCAS DEL TORO. ORDER 130019 . "
Participating companies have reported irregularities in the award of the work.
Companies interested in the tender for study, design, plan development, construction and financing of the new Children's Hospital in Panama have alleged there are irregularities in the award of the project.
The latest complaint was presented by Agrupación Nuevo Hospital del Niño y Acciona Infraestructura, against a staff report prepared by the evaluation committee of the Ministry of Health (MoH), where the virtual winner is FCC Construction.
The Ministry of Health is to assess the economic proposals presented in the tender for the construction of a new Children's Hospital.
Under the order of the Public Procurement Directorate, the Ministry of Health will review again the economic proposals of the companies that participated in the tender for the construction of the new Children's Hospital, on 18 November.
Using the format of abbreviated tender an award has been given to Maxis-Construction Rigaservices for the construction and equipment of an imaging center at the San Miguel Arcángel hospital.
The Ministry of Health (MoH) made the award to the Consortium Maxis-Construction Rigaservices in the abbreviated best value tender for the study, design, construction and equipping of the imaging center and semi-intensive unit at San Miguel Arcángel hospital.