📋 Tender Overview
The Ministry of Transport and Communications, through Provías Nacional, strengthens the work teams in the Zonal Units at the national level by increasing the pool of machinery for the regions by distributing new mechanical equipment that will optimize the service on non-concessioned national routes, as well as the attention to road emergencies that are generated by the arrival of the Global El Niño Phenomenon.
Since our priority is to maintain the passability of the non-concessioned National Road Network, our priority is to attend, in the shortest possible time, to the effects that interrupt or restrict vehicular traffic, which are normally caused by the intense rains that trigger mudslides, landslides and floods, among other types of road emergencies.
The mechanisms for deploying and responding to road emergencies are carried out by direct administration through the 19 Zonal Units strategically distributed throughout the national territory or through contractor-conservative companies that manage some routes or road corridors under the contract modality, responsible, in addition, for the attention of road emergencies.
Through the Zonal Units, road emergency interventions are carried out, for which they have human resources (engineers, technicians, specialists, among others), as well as machinery, tools and materials.
There are 120 new pieces of mechanical equipment that will be distributed, including hydraulic crawler excavators, front loaders, motor graders, rollers, backhoes, tanker trucks and dump trucks.
For this reason, new machinery will be available with the purpose of strengthening the service capacities on the national roads not concessioned, as well as attending to eventual road emergencies that arise, especially those that are generated due to the intense rains of the upcoming season, and before the arrival of the FEN.
From Provías Nacional, we reiterate our commitment to maintain traffic on the national non-concessioned road network and continue working on the attention of road emergencies generated by natural phenomena and thus guarantee the restoration of traffic in the shortest possible time.
