📋 Tender Overview
As a result of the International Cooperation in the Transportation Sector of the Mesoamerican Integration and Development Project the 260-meter-long and 17-meter-wide bridge that connects Panama with Costa Rica over the Sixaola River has 94 percent execution according to the public works authorities of both countries.The investment in this binational project amounts to 25 million dollars 10 million come from a non-reimbursable contribution from the Infrastructure Fund for Mesoamerican and Caribbean Countries or Mexico Fund previously called the Yucatan Fund and a contribution between the two countries of 7.5 million dollars.The work is managed by the United Nations Office for Project Services UNOPS and in charge of the construction is the Sixaola Binational Consortium made up of the company Meco SA with the participation of the Mexican companies Cal Mayor and associates and Mexpresa.During construction the work at the border posts was not affected which was achieved through the articulation of 25 organizations from the two countries harmonizing their legal institutional and operational processes.This border cooperation has its origin in the agreement that both nations signed on May 3 1992. The objective of this Agreement is to expand improve and deepen cooperative relations in all fields to contribute significantly to the development and social and economic improvement commercial environmental and political of the border region and strengthen the integration process between both countries for which programs projects or activities of pre-investment investment and technical assistance will be executed in the border region in the various development sectors.
