More than 10 thousand results were observed during May 2022 in tenders under the heading "health and medicines", ranging from medical treatments to equipment and machinery used in the health sector.
An analysis by CentralAmericaData's Business Intelligence department shows interesting data on the processes that during May 2022 were published with contracts to provide pharmaceuticals, equipment and medical supplies to the several Ministries of Health and Social Security entities in Central American countries and the Dominican Republic.
International tender to provide cloud infrastructure construction services to store survey data, at Empresa Nacional de Energia Electrica de Honduras.
Government of Honduras procurement LED-PEEE-042-LPI-S-:
"Empresa Nacional de Energia Electrica through the IDB Project Management Unit, bid different virtual services, which will be required for 36 months. Some of the technical specifications of the services are as follows:
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In 1971, in the early days of his company, Nike CEO Phil Knight paid a design student named Carolyn Davidson the sum of US$ 35 (about US$ 200 at today's values) to create the "swoosh" logo. We are talking about the mythical logo that still identifies the Nike brand today.
Banco Popular y de Desarrollo Comunal tenders collection management services for accounts declared by the institution as written-off operations.
Costa Rica Government Purchase 2021LN-000005-0020600001:
"The model of this contracting is conceptualized under the consumption scheme according to demand, with which it is intended to have the services of a company that meets the needs that the Bank requires in the collection management service of accounts declared as written-off operations and/or estimated at 100%, it shall locate the debtors, guarantors and/or co-debtors of these operations and recover all or part of the amounts owed by them either through the total cancellation of the customer, refinancing, payment plan and/or payment arrangement in accordance with the policies in force and established for that purpose by the Bank, prior analysis of each case by the company and the definition of the technological tools to be used for negotiation with the customer (understood by tools to: telephone calls, e-mail, sending messaging, SMS, IVR or WhatsApp and all those tools available in the market for negotiation).
The Emergency Social Investment Fund of Nicaragua bids the consultancy for the formulation of water and sanitation projects in the rural sector in the departments of Regions I, II, III, IV, IV, V and VI.
Nicaraguan Government Purchase 195/2021:
"Non-binding homologation meeting will be held for this tender.
The place, date and time of the meeting are indicated below:
Instituto Costarricense de Acueductos y Alcantarillados tender’s services for a contact center for omnichannel customer service.
Costa Rican Government Purchase 2021LN-000003-0021400001:
"This contracting is required to have a Contact Center that provides Attention Services to the users of the Costa Rican Institute of Aqueducts and Sewers in a timely and reliable manner, through an Omnichannel assistance that includes the attention of incoming calls, outgoing call campaigns, attention through digital channels such as: emails, text messages, chats, social networks (Facebook, Twitter, Telegram, WhatsApp, among others), campaigns in different channels of attention and face-to-face attention of managements at the service platforms level.
The competitive advantage of low costs of Central American companies and the possibility of making strategic alliances in Mexico and the U.S., are some of the opportunities that architectural services companies could take advantage of.
For the internationalization of this type of service, companies in the sector recognize some challenges and barriers such as the lack of information on internationalization of services, lack of knowledge on how to reach international clients, differences in design codes and applicable laws, and regulatory difficulties to internationalize plans, highlights an analysis prepared by the Costa Rican Foreign Trade Promoter (Procomer).
The Empresa Nacional de Energia Electrica de Honduras (Honduran National Electric Power Company) is putting out to tender at the international level a high-level individual consultancy service for the preparation of specialized terms of reference and budgets to strengthen the country's electricity transmission capacity.
The Banco Popular y de Desarrollo Comunal de Costa Rica is bidding for the credit card processing service and the dataphone rental and maintenance service in its various modalities, under the modality of consumption on demand.
Costa Rica Government Purchase 2020LN-000009-0020600001:
"Services are required for the processing of VISA and MasterCard for products, credit, debit and prepaid, whether they are their own or sponsored to a third party, additionally, it is required to hire the services of rental of dataphones (POS) in its various forms and preventive and corrective maintenance services of the terminals.
In Central America, nearly 5 million people are looking to purchase home services online, and 8% of these consumers are exploring options for contracting residential cleaning services.
The interactive information system developed by CentralAmericaData, monitors in real time the changes in consumer habits in all markets of the region, with fundamental information to understand the new commercial environment that has emerged in an accelerated manner.
The National Service of Groundwater for Irrigation and Drainage of Costa Rica is bidding for the topographic survey with LIDAR technology and bathymetry in the Coto Colorado River basin.
Costa Rica Government Purchase 2020CE-000001-0018800001:
"According to the current situation of the riverbeds, several studies are required in the basin, within which they are located:
The Bank of Costa Rica tenders the professional services of consulting and accompaniment in the design and operationalization of the Strategic Plan.
Costa Rica Government Purchase 2020LN-000002-0015700001:
"The services of a consulting company will be hired to carry out a strategic diagnosis of the Bank of Costa Rica so that, based on this diagnosis and the application of techniques and methodologies specific to the industry or the bidder, the Board of Directors will be advised and accompanied in transforming the strategy of the BCR and formulating a Strategic Plan for the Bank of Costa Rica for a 5-year period.
The Costa Rican Institute of Aqueducts and Sewerage tenders internationally for consulting services for water and sanitation works in different parts of the country.
Costa Rican Government Purchase 2019LI-000014-PRI:
"Implementation consultancy: Final designs and supervision of works and the drinking water program for Limón, Guacimo, Jacó and Quepos - Manuel Antonio; and sanitary sewerage for Moín, Limón."