An apartment tower in Honduras, the construction of a road in Guatemala and a multipurpose tower in Panama are part of the investments announced in the region for the coming months.
The interactive system "Construction in Central America", of the Trade Intelligence Unit of CentralAmericaData, includes an updated list of public and private construction projects to be developed in the coming months.
Van der Laat & Jiménez, H3 Guatemala, Constructora Codico, Bagatrac S.A. and Constructora Meco are some of the main companies that last year won contracts to design and build public works in Central American countries.
An analysis by CentralAmericaData's Trade Intelligence Unit provides interesting data on the companies that in 2019 were favored with contracts to design and build government buildings, roads, bridges, streets, overpasses and other public infrastructure works in Central American countries.
The international tender for lighting and video surveillance of 143 kilometers of road sections in El Salvador began, a contract that will be executed through a Public-Private Partnership.
Companies interested in applying for the project will have four months to submit their technical and financial proposal. After an evaluation process, the contract of the winning company must be approved by the Legislative Assembly.
The Municipality of Guatemala announced that this year it plans to build eight overpasses in different parts of the capital, which will require a joint investment of some $13 million.
The new overpasses will be in Zones 2, 6, 15 and 16, according to detailed information provided by Guatemala City Mayor Ricardo Quiñonez.
Private investors are planning to build a four-lane highway, 31 kilometers long, which would serve as a beltway for vehicles passing through the municipalities of San Bernardino, Mazatenango and Cuyotenango, department of Suchitepéquez.
This new investment would be executed in a format similar to that of the Via Alterna del Sur (VAS), which is private and operates on a toll basis, and crosses the southern municipalities of the metropolitan area between these Villa Nueva and Villa Canales, in the department of Guatemala.
Grupo Muratori S.A. was awarded the contract to build in Guatemala the overpass of Route CA-01 West at kilometer 27.5, return to San Lucas Sacatepéquez.
The evaluation report of the proposals of the tender "Construction of the uneven crossing of the CA-01 West Route Return to San Lucas Sacatepéquez" was published in the public procurement portal, which details that the amount awarded for this work is $2.6 million.
With the deadline for Congress to approve the 2020 public budget expiring, the Guatemalan government must work with the 2019 budget, so some investments in public infrastructure could come to a halt in the first months of the year.
Last November 30, the deadline for the Congress of the Republic to approve the draft budget of income and expenditures of the nation for 2020, which amounted to Q91.9 billion ($11.9 billion) and was not endorsed by most deputies.
Tender for the supply and installation of thermoplastic paint, which will serve for the horizontal signaling of several road sections of the capital of Guatemala, for a one-year term.
L&S Construcciones S.A. was awarded the contract to build the overpass of Route CA-01 Occidente, Cuatro Caminos, in the department of Totonicapán.
According to the official documentation of the event, the companies that presented their bids were Construcciones y Consultoría S.A., Constructora Conalca, Grupo Beta Constructores S.A. and L&S Construcciones S.A., the latter being the business group favored with the qualification of the examining board.
In the first half of the year, 48 environmental impact studies were presented for projects of street rehabilitation, construction and expansion of highways in Central American countries.
The interactive platform "Construction in Central America", compiled by the Business Intelligence Unit at CentralAmericaData, includes an up to date list of public and private constructionprojects for which environmental impact studies (EIA) were submitted to the respective institutions of each country.
The Ministry of Communications of Guatemala tenders the replacement of the CITO-180 highway, section crossing Zunil - Las Rosas, intersection RN-1, Quetzaltenango.
After the Guatemalan Congress voted against the bill granting the concession to rehabilitate and operate the Escuintla-Puerto Quetzal highway, the winning company asks to return the process to third reading, but some deputies refuse.
For the Guatemalan business sector, the decision by Congress to vote against the bill granting the concession to rehabilitate and operate the Escuintla-Puerto Quetzal highway "sends a negative message to potential investors."
The first positions emerge after learning that the Congress of the Republic buried the road project to rehabilitate and administer the highway Escuintla-Puerto Quetzal with toll collection, which would be granted in concession to the Consorcio Autopistas de Guatemala, under the format of Public-Private Partnership.
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.
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The Guatemalan Congress voted against the bill that granted a private company the concession to rehabilitate and operate the Escuintla-Puerto Quetzal Highway, which will require the presentation of a new bill to revive the road project.
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