Bids Deadline
For Dredging
Limón Port
Construction
This Week
Technical and
economic offers
for a tender to
build and
operate a port
complex in Costa
Rica’s eastern
Limón province
must be
presented this
week, an
official from
port authority
Japdeva told
BNamericas.
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“The deadline to
present the
offers is on
Friday, May 7 at
2pm local time.
This is the
established
deadline unless
the comptroller
general requests
an extension,”
the official
said.
Once the bids
are opened,
national
concessions
board CNC will
have 45 working
days to award
the tender, the
official said.
Over 42 national
and
international
firms have
purchased the
bidding rules,
including
companies from
Brazil,
Colombia, France
and the US.
The winner will
need to invest
us$812 million
in the port.
The tender to
build the port
was first
launched in
April 2009.
However, the
process was
delayed due to
several
corrections to
the original
bidding rules.
The terminal
will be
developed 10km
from the
existing Moín
and Limón ports
and involves a
construction
area of 1,500m2.
The new port
will have the
capacity to
handle post-Panamax
vessels.
Construction
will be carried
out in two
stages. The
first phase
involves
building sea
defenses, the
first 900m of
the dock and
three docking
berths.
In a second
phase, the
concessionaire
will add 600m to
the pier and
build two more
berths. Both
phases should be
operating by
2016. The new
terminal is part
of the
government’s
port master plan
to be developed
over the next 35
years and is the
first step in
the process to
concession the
Limón-Moín port
complex.
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