📋 Tender Overview
The National Road Institute, Invías, invests more than 168,000 million pesos in the road conservation program through routine maintenance and road administration that seeks to prevent the progressive deterioration of the state of the national road network in 30 departments, thereby ratifies its commitment to improve the connectivity and walkability of the country's regions.
The routine maintenance and road administration program generates 2,814 jobs for road administrators and microentrepreneurs who are distributed over 9,024 kilometers of national roads, through 311 contracts, in which road maintenance activities such as patching with asphalt mix, crack sealing, replacement of signs, spraying, pruning and felling of trees, cleaning of berms, ditches and sewers, emergency response and removal of landslides, facilitating mobility in adequate safety conditions for those transporting essential products and supplies, among others .
The deputy director of Comprehensive Management of National Highways of the Invías, Álvaro Ruíz, stated that, “ the benefits of this program are the result of hundreds of people who work on our roads, who are attentive to the damage that may occur, generating early warnings and preventive measures to take care of road users and the environment and providing timely attention to risks and emergencies that may arise .”
“The social results of the program are widely favorable because it has generated direct and indirect job opportunities, entrepreneurship, integration of women, ethnic, racial, and Afro-American groups, and support for groups of low-income people, managing to foster a sense of belonging for the communities.” roads,” added the deputy director.
For the second half of 2023, seven selection processes were carried out through a merit-based competition with an investment of 26,577 million pesos for the hiring of road administrators, which gave rise to 70 new contracts that are in the process of legalization.
Likewise, for routine maintenance, 27 selection processes are being developed with an investment of 49,555 million pesos that will generate 251 contracts with an estimated execution period of four months, starting this September.
With the Government of Change we move to guarantee employability, so, through future periods, for a value close to 700,000 million pesos, tenders will be opened at the end of 2023 to cover this program in the next three years and guarantee the routine maintenance of the corridors by the Institute.
Invías contributes to promoting Social and Economic Justice in Colombia, since with these projects the Entity facilitates not only the transportation of products, goods and services, but also energizes the local economy with the generation of jobs for the inhabitants who are close to influence projects.
