The Ministry of Public Health of Guatemala, through an international bidding process, requires the supervision of the design, construction and equipment of the hospitals to be located in the departments of Mazatenango and Jutiapa.
Guatemala Government Purchase 17512654:
"The Special Unit for the Execution of Health Programs and Projects of the Ministry of Public Health and Social Assistance, is conducting an international public tender for turnkey contracts to build hospitals in two departments of the country.
Professional services are tendered to assist the project financed by the IDB and promoted by the Panama Tourism Authority, called Integral Urban Development Program for Cities with a Vocation for Tourism.
Panama Government Purchase 2022-1-45-0-99-LP-015740:
"Panama requires hiring consultants to provide specialized support services in the management of loan 4944/OC-PN with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) that seeks to finance the Integral Urban Development Program for Cities with a Vocation for Tourism, which is executed by the Panama Tourism Authority (ATP).
After the contract was signed for the designs of the Penas Blancas and Tablillas border control posts, it is expected that in July 2021 the international bidding process for the construction of these enclosures can be initiated.
The Ministry of Foreign Trade (Comex) informed that on October 28, Duayner Salas, head of the institution, signed with the Consorcio Norte Sur Arquitectos, of Costa Rica, and the company C y C Asesorias Profesionales Limitada, of Santiago de Chile the contract for the design of the border control posts, whose works, as a whole, imply an intervention of an area of approximately 700,000 square meters.
In El Salvador, the terms of reference were announced to be published in November 2020, with details of the tender to design a biogas plant in the country.
According to directors of the Executive Hydroelectric Commission of the Lempa River (Cel), an ambitious investment plan is being worked on which, in addition to the new biogas plant, includes the development of new geothermal plants.
The expansion of the Highway to the Port of Vacamonte and the construction of the connection of the Cinta Costera 3 to Amador, are two projects that are expected to be tendered in Panama during August 2020.
In order to revive the construction industry, the Minister of Public Works, Rafael Sabonge, reported that next month will be tendered two infrastructure projects whose investment is around $100 million.
In El Salvador, the competition rules are being prepared to design and build a plant that will generate energy from solid waste and wastewater, which will be located on the Acelhuate River.
The project of the new plant, which will have an installed capacity of 5.2 MW and whose investment will amount to $32 million, was announced by the presidency of the Executive Hydroelectric Commission of the Lempa River (CEL).
The Salvadoran government is preparing to begin the tender process in 2020 to build a new photovoltaic plant in Usulután, which will have a capacity of 20 MW and will require an investment of approximately $19 million.
The project of the new solar power plant is contemplated in the General Budget of the Nation of 2020, therefore, if approved by the Legislative Assembly, the Executive Hydroelectric Commission of the Lempa River (CEL) will initiate the public tender next year.
Empresa Eléctrica de Guatemala is preparing three tenders for the energy supply, which will be for one, four and fifteen years.
Empresa Eléctrica de Guatemala, S.A. (EEGSA) reported that the first tender it has planned is a one-year contract from May 2019 for the supply of 71 MW.
In El Salvador, it was announced that between December and February 2019, a tender will be published for the construction of 27 educational centers, which will require a $30 million investment.
From the statement of FOMILENIO II:
November 16th, 2018. Vice President Óscar Ortiz, authorities from FOMILENIO II and the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) met with mayors from the country's paracentral and eastern regions to coordinate efforts and begin construction and rehabilitation of 27 educational centers.
CEPA authorities in El Salvador announced that they are still drafting the bases for re-tendering the concession for the port terminal operation.
In August, the authorities of the Executive Autonomous Port Commission (CEPA) reported that in October they planned to publish the tender documents to manage the Port La Union. However, recently announced that the bases are not yet ready.
In El Salvador, at least 16 companies have registered as bidders in the tender for 28 MW of non-conventional renewable energy, for distributed solar generation and generation using biogas.
Without giving more details about the interested companies, it was reported that more than 16 investors have registered as bidders for technical and financial projects for alternative energy generation.
The government will allocate resources for the purchase of medicinal and pharmaceutical products, laboratory supplies, medical surgical instruments, and X-ray equipment, among other things.
From a statement issued by the Ministry of Economy and Finance:
An Additional Supplementary Credit to the General State Budget for the fiscal year 2018, was approved at an ordinary meeting of the National Economic Council, with allocation in favor of the National Oncology Institute and the Santo Tomás Hospital, up to the sum of 16,846,685 balboas, of which about 6 million 596 thousand 74 balboas will correspond to the National Oncology Institute and 10 million 250 thousand 611 balboas to the Santo Tomas Hospital in order to ensure the availability of medicines and supplies.
The Morales administration has asked Congress to approve an additional $40 million to buy food to supply the inhabitants of the drought-affected areas.
The Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Food (MAGA) put before the deputies a request to approve an additional item of Q300 million ($40 million) to buy food for the approximately 300,000 families that have lost their crops in the Dry Corridor that includes the departments of Santa Rosa, Jutiapa, Jalapa, El Progreso, Zacapa, Chiquimula and part of Izabal and Baja Verapaz.
Authorities at the CEPA in El Salvador announced that in October they plan to publish, once again, the tender to grant the operation of the port terminal in concession.
In September 2017, here at CentralAmericaData we published: "Almost nine years after its inauguration, Puerto La Union in El Salvador is still not operating to its full capacity, and two years have now passed without a private company managing to take over its operation."
The government of Guatemala has announced that in September the specifications will be ready to tender 5,000 devices for control and telematic tracking of people.
Of the 5,000 devices that the Ministry of the Interior plans to acquire, 750 will be bracelet types, and the remaining 4,250 will be anklet types.
The Minister of the Interior, Enrique Degenhart, explained to the Congress that "...