Peru looks to revive Santa Rosa bridge and Maldonado water treatment projects this year

Bidding processes for Peru's Santa Rosa bridge in the port city of Callao and the Puerto Maldonado wastewater treatment plant in Madre de Dios region are due to resume before the end of the year. 

The process for the former should resume in September and the latter’s toward the end of the year.

The government expected to award both projects in June and July but the tenders were declared void.

SANTA ROSA BRIDGE

The call for the bridge, which will connect Santa Rosa avenue with Jorge Chávez international airport in Lima, was declared void on July 24 after the interested companies – Chavín Engineering & Construcción, Banco Internacional del Perú (Interbank) and Optical Technologies – did not submit proposals.

The project, which will be caried out via the works for taxes mechanism, is the responsibility of the transport and communications ministry (MTC) and estimated capex is 475mn soles (US$129mn). 

According to the executive director of investment promotion agency ProInversión, José Salardi, no bids were submitted because the estimated cost was not updated but the three companies remain interested. The new call is due to be launched in August and awarding is now projected for September.

MALDONADO PLANT

The tender for the construction of the Maldonado plant was declared void on June 23 after receiving no bids for the US$86mn project. At the beginning of the year, ProInversión updated the value of the project from US$59mn to US$86mn.

The agency declared in mid-July that it was working to reformulate the project to be able to award it by the end of 2023. “The idea is to have more bidders and greater competition towards the end of this year,” Salardi told government newspaper El Peruano.

Of the four companies that prequalified for the process, two did not attend the auction, namely GS Inima Environment and FCC Aqualia, while the consortium comprising Copasa and Almar, and Mexican firm Tecnología Intercontinental, did attend but did not submit bids.

BNamericas tried to contact ProInversión for more details on the project but had no response at press time.

Puerto Maldonado city is located in the central Peruvian jungle, 1,500km from Lima by road.