In Costa Rica the consortium formed by ICE, Racsa and PC Central, offered three zones for a total amount of $70.8 million, Coopeguanacaste offered to connect zone # 2 for $20 million and Telecable offered to service zone # 3, for $15.5 million.
The Superintendency of Telecommunications stated that the program Connected Public Spaces of the National Telecommunications Fund (FONATEL), received offers from two companies and a consortium interested in developing the Public Connected Spaces program to bring free Wi-Fi to 515 zones throughout the country; including parks, squares, libraries, train stations, Civic Centers and the campuses of the 5 public universities.
Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad is putting out to tender a supply of simple trunked portable communication radios.
Costa Rica Government Purchase 2017LA-000051-0000400001:
"Technical details of the required equipment:
- Compatibility with the Motorola Astro 25 trunked radio system (P25), control channel at 9600 BPS, in accordance with the ANSI / TIA / EIA 102 standard.
A contract has been awarded to the company GBM of Costa Rica to provide the service of processing and operating CSR infrastructure for a period of 3 years.
The value of the contract awarded by the Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE) is $10.3 million (5,882,747,265 colones), and consists of providing GSR infrastructure processing and operating capacity service for a period of 3 years, extendable for an additional period of equal duration or less depending on the needs of the ICE.
In the tender for 70 MHz of frequencies for telephone and mobile telephone and Internet services in Costa Rica, Claro paid $19 million for three blocks of frequencies and Movistar $24 million for four blocks.
In the against the clock auction, in a single round, the Telecommunications Superintendence (Sutel) sold the 70 MHz that had been left idle since the first radio spectrum contest was held in 2011.
In Costa Rica a tender is being launched for the implementation of 100 MB of wireless internet access in parks, plazas, train stations and other public spaces.
$45 million will be invested in the project, and the aim is to connect 985 wireless access points in 360 districts of the country's 82 cantons, including 62 public libraries, 28 train stations and 7 civic centers for peace.The delivery of offers is scheduled for November 2017.Seedetails of the tender.
For the third time the date for submitting bids in the 70 MHz tender for the radio spectrum for international mobile technology services has been postponed.
For the third time, the deadline has been changed for submitting the proposals, after the operators interested in thetender filed appeals and objections against the tender conditions.
The Superintendency of Telecommunications in Costa Rica is inviting bids for 7 projects to provide telephony and internet services to 52 districts in the Central Pacific and Chorotega Region.
From a statement issued by the Superintendency of Telecommunications in Costa Rica:
SUTEL opens competition to bring telephony and internet services to the Central Pacific and Guanacaste.
The Ministry of Finance and the state run power company ESPH have been denounced for anti competitive practices in the tender for an electronic invoicing system.
After the Ministry of Finance convened an ultra fast tenderand received only two bids for $27 million and $8 million to develop an electronic invoicing system, the union of technology companies has filed a complaint alleging anti-competitive practices.
In the tender to design and implement an electronic billing system for the Treasury, interested companies only have five working days in which to submit bids.
In a tender which requires, among other things, five years of experience in systems development, experience in project management and even a certificate from the Project Management Institute, Empresa de Servicios Público (ESPH) is only allowing five business days for interested companies to submit their proposals.
An alarming trend has been confirmed on the government of Costa Rica involving self-supply between institutions and public companies under contracts that avoid the participation of private enterprises.
EDITORIAL
The legal tangle that regulates state purchases in Costa Rica is a machine that forces to go out on a pilgrimage in order to acquire, for example, electronic bracelets for prisoners.
In order to try to control the growing air traffic of drugs an initial purchase will be made of two radars while funds are sought for eight others.
An article in Nacion.com reports that "...The Ministry of Public Security is looking for resources to purchase 10 expensive mobile radars to detect planes engaged in transporting drugs in the country. "
The Superintendency of Telecommunications has now been given approval to hold the contest of 70 MHz for mobile telephony, which had been on hold since 2011.
Four years after the last allocation of frequencies, the Ministry of Telecommunications has given authorization to proceed with a public auction, in which it is expected that Claro and Telefonica will take part but not the state run power company as it already has a larger number of frequencies than private operators.
State institutions avoid competition between telecoms companies by hiring telecommunications services, without using tender processes and without time limits, from the state run Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad and Radiográfica Costarricense.
Instead of creating tenders to generate healthy competition between telecommunications operators and to find the best cost / benefit ratio, as all private companies do, state institutions renew agreements with the state run ICE and RACSA despite the market opening of the telecommunications industry, regardless of price or terms of service that they offer.
The Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad is inviting bids for the implementation of a communications system for agencies and customer service centers nationwide.
Government Purchase 2015LA-000071-0000400001 Costa Rica:
"The goal is to implement an IP Communications System at approximately 140 sites and buildings, including agencies of the Integral Support Centers (CAICS) across the country."
The Superintendency of Telecommunications has announced a competition to provide voice and fixed internet services in 6 areas in the Huetar Atlantic Region, for a projected amount of $20 million.
From a statement issued by the Superintendency of Telecommunications:
A tender is being launched for projects to bring internet and fixed phone services to 18 vulnerable districts in the Atlantic Region.