After multiple attempts to liquidate the contract and collect the bonds for the road works that were awarded to the Brazilian construction company, the Guatemalan government has finally received the money and will be able to tender the works again.
Representatives from the executive board announced that they have already received two bonds corresponding to the road works for 140 kilometers of the CA-2 highway, meaning that the path to bidding for new contracts is practically open.
Of the 40 road construction and renovation projects that the Ministry of Communications plans to develop this year, 22 consist of paving 408 kilometers of roads.
The proposal was presented by the Ministry of Communications, Infrastructure and Housing (CIV by its initials in Spanish) to the Government Cabinet on Monday.
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.
The government plans to start renovation works on 160 schools nationwide in 2018.
Officials of the Executive announced that the Ministry of Communications, Infrastructure and Housing (CIV), will be responsible for renovating 160 schools in different areas of the country.For these works, the CIV plans to invest around $95 million over a period of 4 years.
The government of Guatemala has agreed with the Brazilian construction company to bring forward the termination of contract for extending the CA-2 Occidente highway and will launch a tender for three contracts to complete the remaining 97-kilometer stretch.
The contract was awarded to construction company Odebrecht in 2012, and after the corruption cases the that it was involved in came to light, the government of Guatemala decided to negotiate the early termination of the contract. The head of the Ministry of Communications, Infrastructure and Housing (CIV), Aldo García, told Elperiodico.com.gt that "... because of the reservation there has been over the investigation of this case, it can only be anticipated that the agreement reached with the company is under legal review, a company which in 2012 obtained the contract for the extension of the CA-2 Occidente highway for US $399 million."
This year the government plans to allocate $110 million to tenders for works on renovations, cleaning and improvement of roads in different parts of the country.
The plan put forward by the Ministry of Communications, Infrastructure and Housing (CIV) is to invest $110 million in the renovation of 10,100 kilometers of roads throughout the country, including street patching, terracing and cleaning.
While options are being evaluated to terminate the contract with Odebrecht to build the CA-2 Occidente road, the government will be putting out to tender maintenance of the sections that were left unfinished.
The Ministry of Communications, Infrastructure and Housing will first make a "visual inspection" to determine the actual state of the road, both the sections which have been completed but damaged and sections that have not yet been completed.
The government has announced it will be inviting bids for river dredging in order to prevent flooding as well as maintenance of roads that are affected during the rainy season.
The Minister of Communications, Infrastructure and Housing (CIV), Aldo Garcia, stated that he was aware that the $52 million allocated to dealing with the consequences of the rainy season on road infrastructure will not be enough, but explained that " ...
An $25 million investment has been announced in four roads in the country including 10 additional kilometers to the Tecpan-Chimaltenango-El Tejar route.
The Government of Guatemala will be investing Q200 million ($25.8 million) in four road projects, said Aldo Garcia Morales, Minister of Communications, Infrastructure and Housing (CIV), in remarks published by Agn.com.gt.
Three years after the first attempt, the government has announced that the railway project estimated at $200 million will be tendered in 2017 under a public-private partnership scheme.
In 2013 the National Agency for Partnerships for Economic Infrastructure Development (ANADIE) had tried to tender the design and construction of an urban passenger train and a railway terminal, however, it never materialized. Now the government of President Jimmy Morales has taken up the project under the same scheme of a public-private partnership, only evaluating the work at $200 million and not $350 million as projected previously. Diario de Centroamerica reported that the initiative will be presented to Congress.
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