The detailed engineering and technical, economic, environmental and risk assessment studies for the four-lane extension project of the CA-02 Oriente stretch from Escuintla to the RN-16 fork, Chiquimulilla, Santa Rosa, are being tendered in Guatemala.
Guatemala Ministry of Communications Purchase 10787097:
"The winning Consultant will be in charge and responsible for elaborating the horizontal and vertical geometric design, of all the characteristics and specifications, adapting as much as possible to the existing alignment. If this alignment complies with the design norms, protection works must be considered to reduce the risk to which the project object of study will be submitted in the operation stage.
The Guatemalan government will liquidate the works contract to extend 100 km of the CA2 East highway, which connects the department of Escuintla and the border with El Salvador.
The Ministry of Communications announced that this month they plan to liquidate the contract with Sigma Constructores, which had as objective to expand from two to four lanes the stretch of road that goes from Escuintla and ends at the border Ciudad Pedro de Alvarado, Jutiapa Department.
Although they have not finished liquidating the contracts with the Brazilian company Odebrecht, Guatemalan authorities say that the bids to conclude the works are going ahead.
The contracts that the Ministry of Communications intends to terminate early are those corresponding to the extension of 97 kilometers of the CA-2 West highway. To conclude these works, the institution is launching new tenders, for which there is time to participate up until February 23.