The tender is to improve terraced rural roads in the departments of Izabal, El Progreso and Santa Rosa.
According to the tender specifications the work covers some 122 kms, distributed as 26.41 km in the department of Santa Rosa, 72.72 km in Izabal and 22.87 km in El Progreso.
The contract period is for eighteen calendar months, which will start five days after the contract has been signed.
The country signed with the IDB a loan for a new health model and improvement of rural roads.
$ 60 million will be destined to fund the "Integrated Health Program", a new health model which seeks to expand and improve the network of health units, and $ 35 million for the implementation of the Development of Rural Roads Program.
"The other international credit is for $ 20 million and will serve to implement water and rural sanitation projects, which aims to improve living conditions of population through provision of adequate water and sanitation." Laprensagrafica.com informs.
The project includes the paving of existing rural roads and the construction of new access roads.
Gerson Martínez, Head of the Public Infrastructure Ministry, stated that the funds for this investment come from the Interamerican Development Bank and the general budget.
"The main aspects of the Ministry´s work were presented yesterday to the International Cooperation Institutions," can be read at Laprensagrafica.com.
As of May 31st, the government has yet to invest 76% of the funds it obtained through loans.
Public ministries such as Public Health and Social Assistance (Mspas), which have $50 million allocated to them for the construction of three hospitals, have used only 2%.
Reporter Leonel Díaz Zeceña wrote about the construction of the hospitals in Prensa Libre’s website, adding: “The loans for the construction of these hospitals were authorized by the Inter-American Development Bank a year ago, and the state has already paid US$28,456 (Q231,000) in interest payments.”