In El Salvador, the contract for the financing, design, construction and operation of the San Oscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez International Airport Cargo Terminal is tendered under the Public-Private Partnership format.
The project contemplates two phases of development: Phase 1 consists of financing, design, expansion, construction, equipment, improvement of maintenance and operation of the existing Cargo Terminal.
Authorities in Guatemala verify the progress of the bill for the rehabilitation and operation of the Escuintla-Puerto Quetzal Highway, which was presented to Congress six months ago and have yet to make a statement.
Members of the National Council of Alliances for the Development of Economic Infrastructure (Conadie) attended the Congress of the Republic, with the objective of knowing the progress of the initiative of the project of public-private alliance, which was presented since October 5, 2018 and is in control of the Commission of Communications, Transport and Public Works.
Because of the lack of progress in Congress and the fact that 2019 is an election year, there is a risk in Guatemala that the concession to rehabilitate and operate the Escuintla-Puerto Quetzal Highway will not be granted.
In July 2018, the Consorcio Autopistas de Guatemala was awarded the contract for the rehabilitation, maintenance and administration of the Escuintla-Puerto Quetzal highway, with toll collection.
Back on the table once again is discussion of a project to construct Metro Rail for Guatemala City, which would stretch 20 kilometers from the capital and require an investment of close to $800 million.
The Municipality of Guatemala, the National Agency of Partnerships for the Development of Economic Infrastructure (Anadie), Ferrocarriles de Guatemala (Fegua) and Ferrovías signed a cooperation agreement to establish the mechanisms that allow for the Metro Rail transportation system to be put into operation.
In Guatemala a proposal has been made for private companies to build toll roads, where, in some cases the State pays for the tolls, instead of charging road users.
The proposal of this investment model was raised in the context of the National Entrepreneurs Encounter (Enade), focused this year on the theme of infrastructure.
Companies from Spain, Peru, Argentina, Mexico, Colombia, the Netherlands and Italy took part in the prequalification process to build and operate the Escuintla-Puerto Quetzal highway.
The construction firms that participated in the prequalification process were:
1) Consorcio Autopistas de Guatemala (Mexico and Guatemala)
The project to build an intermodal "dry port" on the Guatemala-Mexico border, which has been valued at $40 million, will be developed through a public-private partnership.
Through an agreement between the Superintendency of Tax Administration (SAT) and the National Agency on Partnerships for Economic Infrastructure Development (ANADIE) will a plan will be developed to carry out the project to build an Intermodal Dry Port in Tecun Uman which will be developed under a public-private partnership scheme.
A feasibility study indicates an estimated cost of $770 million for building a Metro that will loop through 20 kilometers between the North and South of the capital city, a project which will be put out to tender in 2017.
The project, whose feasibility study was commissioned with the Spanish company IDOM Ingeniería y Consultoría, consists of building a light railway which will extend for 20 kilometers and will have 20 stations.The trains will run from South Centra in Villa Nueva, to Centra Norte, within the limits of zones 17 and 18.
A tender is being launched for a project to renovate, manage, operate, maintain and provide additional works for the Escuintla-Puerto Quetzal highway.
Guatemala Government Purchase 5414121:
"The National Agency of Partnerships for Economic Infrastructure Development (ANADIE) is inviting individuals and legal persons who meet the requirements of these Prequalification Rules, to express their interest in participating in the prequalification phase, which aims at, prior to the eventual opening of bids, creating a list of prequalified entities who may participate, as appropriate, in the Tender Project of the Partnerships for Economic Infrastructure Development called "renovation, management, operation, maintenance and additional works for the highway Escuintla-Puerto Quetzal with toll collection," which has the objective of improving, acquiring right of way, operating and maintaining the 2 tracks that make up the stretch of road Escuintla - Puerto Quetzal, whose administration and road management will be financed through tolls.
An announcement has been made in Guatemala that work is being done on a draft specification for the six companies already pre-qualified to participate in the tender, which is now scheduled for the first quarter of this year.
The National Agency for Development Economic Infrastructure (ANADIE) has resumed the process of hiring a company for the construction, maintenance and operation of the State Administrative Center (CAE), after having announced its postponement in December 2015. In order to clear up any doubts and clarify aspects of the project, the company met with representatives of the six companies that have been prequalified. The project has an estimated cost of $180 million.
The tender to build in Guatemala a complex of government offices through a public-private partnership has been postponed until March 2016, and the award will be made in July of that year.
Although the process for pre qualification of companies has already been completed, lack of resources and the change of government has forced the National Agency Partnerships for Economic Infrastructure Development (ANADIE) to postpone the tender to build the offices.
The current political turmoil is threatening the implementation of important infrastructure projects such as the construction of the State Administrative Center, valued at $200 million.
The resignation of several ministers in Perez Molina's cabinet, including Sergio de la Torre, Economy Minister and Commissioner for competitiveness, Juan Carlos Paiz, both members of the board of the National Agency for the Development Partnerships Economic infrastructure (ANADIE) complicates the near future of planned projects to be developed in the form of public - private partnerships.
Six companies will be able to present bids to build the complex of government offices for $200 million, including the much questioned Brazilian company Odebrecht.
The remaining five shortlisted firms are the Spanish group Ortiz Construcción y Proyectos Guatemala, Instalaciones Inabensa Spain, Consorcio CAE Guatemala, Gia Constructora and Edificadora y SBI International Holdings. From now on companies will have 3 months to submit their proposals.
Seven companies have submitted proposals to prequalify in the process to develop, under the model of Public Private Partnership, a State Administrative Center.
From a statement issued by the ANADIE:
Receipt of expressions of interest by parties interested in the process to prequalifiy as investors in the project "State Administrative Center (Spanish initials: CAE) in Guatemala City"
Odebrecht, ICA and the mexican company Marhnos are some of the foreign companies that could be interested in building the State Administrative Center, estimated at $180 million.
Grupo Spectrum and Constructora Nacional S. A. (Conasa) are the only two Guatemalan companies so far, according to authorities, who have shown interest in participating in the pre-qualification process for construction of the State Administrative Center in form of a public-private partnership.