📋 Tender Overview
The Ministry of Transport and Communications (MTC) carries out prevention actions in view of the possible impacts of the El Nino phenomenon. In this way, in addition to the award concluded for the purchase of 65 heavy machinery, the sector will acquire another 55 machines to rehabilitate and free roads and bridges, affected by heavy rains.
This was reported by the Minister of Transport and Communications, Raúl Pérez Reyes, after participating in the meeting of the "Multisectoral Task Force Working Group", which coordinates preparedness and response actions, before the arrival of the El Niño Phenomenon.
On the package of 55 machines, the head of the MTC explained that the selection process is being carried out to acquire 36 tippers. In addition, a second call, which includes the purchase of 19 tanks.
"Having this machinery by December 2023 will allow us to respond quickly to the El Niño phenomenon," said Pérez Reyes.
Other actions of the MTC have been executed in the National Road Network, where through 36 interventions, covering work in 98 sectors, work was completed in 79. Meanwhile, it intervenes in 5 other sectors.
Work is also underway on the construction and installation of 62 bridges in the Departmental Road Network. Of these, 49 are definitive and 13 are modular. They are scheduled to be completed in December this year.
On the other hand, the minister said that the 43 modular bridges, acquired by the MTC, will be delivered at the emergency points.
"The idea is that these infrastructures allow us to intervene quickly, in the event that, during the El Niño phenomenon, the fall of any of the bridges occurs," he said.
The aforementioned works and purchases are carried out within the framework of Emergency Decree 011-2023, which approves extraordinary and urgent measures in economic and financial matters, in the face of emergencies due to the impact of damage or disasters due to the occurrence of heavy rains or associated dangers in 2023.
