Panama: Hospital Construction Projects ReactivatedTuesday, March 31, 2015 The Ministry of Health and the construction company IBT Health Group reached an agreement to resume construction of work in hospitals in the provinces of Darién, Los Santos and Chiriquí. In order to start construction, the Comptroller General of the Republic will authorize the agreements and documents signed between the Ministry of Health (MoH) and IBT Health Group. Panama: IBT y FCC to Build HospitalsTuesday, July 6, 2010 The bid evaluation committee recommended that these two companies should be given the $350 million project to construct five hospitals. According to the committee’s report, IBT Health (representative of General Electric) is the most suitable company to build four of the hospitals in Darién, Bugaba (in Chiriquí), Anita Moreno (Los Santos) and Manuel Amador Guerrero (Colón). Panama: $ 4 million for Hospital ManagementTuesday, January 18, 2011 Spanish company Health Lean Logistics (HLL) has won the contract to manage logistics in the Panamanian hospital network. Health Lean Logistics (HLL) is a company specialized in design, implementation and managing of solutions in the field of logistics and purchase in the health sector. Panama: Hospital Constructions ResumedMonday, November 10, 2014 After suspending contracts awarded to IBT Health Group in April, the government has resumed negotiations and announced that at the end of the year the works on four hospitals in the provinces of Darien, Colón, Los Santos and Chiriqui will be restarted. It is hoped that with the agreements reached between IBT Health Group and the Ministry of Health (MoH) the hospitals will begin operating in 2016. Construction of $5.3 Million Health Centre BeginsThursday, November 17, 2011 IBT Health are to build a Primary Health Care Center in the city of Las Tablas. The grounds of the former Gerardino De Leon general hospital were awarded in a tender issued by the City Council of the City of Las Tablas, as the location for the new Minsa-Capsi center. Offers Received for 10 Health Centers in PanamaTuesday, August 24, 2010 Five consortiums have submitted bids for the $60 million hospital construction project. The participating consortium were Consorcio IBT Health, Sociedad Española de Montajes Industriales, Omega Engineering, Ingeniería R.M. and Consorcio Termotécnica Mega Proyecto. Award of Panamanian Hospital Contracts SuspendedThursday, July 15, 2010 Due to complaints received from Samsung the public acquisitions directorate has suspended the award process. The evaluating committee had awarded the $386 million contract for five hospitals to IBT Health consortium and FCC Construcción. Korean Samsung C&T Corporation contested the decision. Panamanian Hospital Tender is ContestedFriday, July 9, 2010 The Korean company Samsung presented its dispute to the public acquisitions directorate. Manuel Batista, acting on behalf of Samsung, contests the decision taken by the evaluating committee to invalidate the company’s financial statements due to their being written in Korean. Contractual Breach in Works in PanamaTuesday, April 29, 2014 The Panamanian Government has announced the execution of bonds of two contracts for the construction of hospitals awarded to IBT Health Group. The President of the Republic, Ricardo Martinelli said that the contracts for the General construction of the hospitals Meteti, Darien and Général de Bugaba, in Chiriqui for US$36.5 and $30.6 million respectively, will be terminated and that at the same time they will follow the relevant legal procedures relating to contracts for the hospitals of La Villa de Los Santos and Colon, with the same company. $168 Million in Logistics Services AwardedWednesday, April 8, 2020 The Social Security Fund of Panama granted the Consorcio Salud en Control the contract for the service of storage, distribution and final dispensation of medicines at the national level, for a period of four years. According to official information published on April 7, the winner of the tender was the business consortium composed by the companies Intercontinental de Medicamentos, S.A. de CV and PMG Logistic Corp. Panama Pushes Back Hospital Construction BiddingThursday, July 1, 2010 The Health Ministry decided to delay by 10 days the bidding process for building 5 hospitals in the country. “The original date for opening the proposals was June, Tuesday 29. The evaluating committee explained that choosing the contractor ended up being a very complex process, and requested an additional three days”, reported Prensa.com. Panama: $160 million Hospital Work ResumedTuesday, January 26, 2016 After four years of stagnation and with the works only 25% complete, the construction of the Manuel Amador Guerrero Hospital in the province of Colon has been reactivated. From a statement issued by the Presidency of the Republic of Panama: Tender: Chemicals for $3 millionThursday, January 18, 2018 The National Institute of Aqueducts and Sewers of Panama is putting out to tender a supply of four million kilograms of granular aluminum sulphate. Panama Government Purchase 2018-2-66-0-99-LP-013701: Tender for Chemicals for Use in Water Treatment PlantsFriday, March 27, 2020 The Instituto de Acueductos y Alcantarillados de Panamá tenders for the supply of calcium hypochlorite, to be used in potentization plants. Panama Government Purchase 2020-2-66-0-99-LP-015517: Salvadoran Pharmaceutical companies create export consortiumWednesday, November 12, 2008 Five pharmaceutical laboratories set up the Affluentes consortium to export to three countries in the Caribbean Community starting next year. Affluentes, S.A. de C.V. is comprised of HealthCo, Paill, Gamma, Teramed and Pazepharm Laboratories. Some of these laboratories already export to Central America, USA, Dominican Republic, Panama and Belize but anticipate good business opportunities in the Caribbean and South America. |
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