📋 Tender Overview
In the following days there will be a company that will build tunnels. After the Comptrollers Office approved an additional work through addendum No. 9 for the installation of the slabs of the Virgen de Chapi bridge, the La Joya II Consortium restarted the administrative procedures on September 20 and in the following days they will begin to move machinery to complete the work.
Norma Mamani Coila, general manager of the Regional Government of Arequipa, reported that in this way the last stage of the construction of Component No. 1 of the Arequipa La Joya highway is being started, an emblematic project of Arequipa, the same one that was restarted last year, with the management of Governor Rohel Sanchez Sanchez.
Because the amount for the labor of the placement of the slabs was omitted in the technical file, an increase in the budget was requested from the Comptrollers Office and the amount of 3 million 300 thousand soles was approved. According to Felix Lazo Pacheco, representative of the Consortium, the bridge will be fully operational in July of next year, after passing a resistance test.
Manager Coila Mamani reported that the call for the construction of the two twin tunnels was launched, under the mechanism of works for tax and in the following days the name of the company that will be in charge of the work will be known, although the commitment for its construction has already been made. There, the Regional Government of Arequipa has committed a budget of 135 million soles.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Transport and Communications is working on prioritizing the construction of Component No. III, which is the road to La Joya, for an average of 350 million soles, a process that must be completed in December. The road interchange on the Panamericana will be executed by the Regional Government of Arequipa.
At the same time, work is being done on the construction of the La Nueva Molina highway, which will help reduce the heavy traffic currently experienced in the Northern Cone due to the large number of heavy trucks going up and down Caylloma, which will be diverted via the Virgen de Chapi bridge, using the Nueva Molina to the Panamericana. This highway will be completed before the bridge is delivered.
