The Panama Canal published the tender yesterday for prequalification in the tender of a new water management system that guarantees for the next 50 years the sustainable supply of the resource, which has recorded “historically low levels in the last years ”because of the crisis climatic.
The Panama Canal Authority (ACP) He said that with this statement the process begins for the development of the “optimized system of water resource management, which considers a portfolio of projects to strengthen and modernize the current system and ensure the water supply. ” Interested parties must submit, further take place on November 12, financial and technical information, together with the history of successful project execution, which will be evaluated by the Panama Canal to choose the best prequalified before to end this year, indicated the ACP. Those prequalified will then receive the specifications of positions with the requirements for them to prepare and present, in the last quarter of 2021, your value proposition that identifies a portfolio of projects aimed at projected management, in an integral way, of the water resources of the Panama Canal, added the official letter. The Canal did not offer investment figures for the project, but a report from rating agency Moody’s last July indicated that the investments required to “address the scarcity “of the resource” are estimated at between 1,000 and 1,500 million dollars or 33% 50% of ACP’s total income. “
