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Panama Metro Chooses Adviser

A consortium composed by POYRY-Cal and Mayor-GeoConsult was awarded the contract for consulting and advising in the design of the Metro system.

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

©image: Michel Filion

Technical bids were the most important for choosing the company, reported Roberto Roy, Metro Secretary.

"The winning consortium will develop the metro's conceptual design and prepare the documents for inviting bids for the project", reported Prensa.com. "For this task... the consortium will have 9 months".

Source: Prensa.com

Key entities

CAF Secretaría del Metro POYRY/Cal y Mayor y Asociados GeoConsult Inter-American Development Bank

Countries

Panama

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Panama subway subway Infrastructure and Construction Logistics

Panama Metro Begins Consulting Process

November 2009

The consortium Geoconsult/Cal and Mayor/Poyry formally joined the Metro task force today.

Antonio Guevara, Director at Poyry Mexico, explained that Geoconsult will conduct the geological, geotechnical and local advising studies; Cal and Mayor will conduct demand, civil structures and urban development studies; and Poyry will be the overall responsible of the system.

4 Consortium Bidding for Panamanian Metro

October 2009

Groups "Poyry / Cal y Mayor", "Coteba", "Metro de Madrid / Mintra" and "Metro de Barcelona / Sener", submitted their bids.

On the other hand, URS Holdings and Parsons-Brinkerhoff, which had been shortlisted, decided not to bid for the consulting contract, which has a maximum price of $2 million.

6 Consortiums Bidding for Panamanian Metro

August 2009

IDB and CAF announced the six consortiums pre-selected for advising through the entire Metro project.

These are URS Holdings Inc. (U.S.A.), Parsons-Brinkerhoff (U.S.A.), Metro de Madrid (Spain) , Metro de Barcelona (Spain) , COTEBA (France) y POYRY/Cal y Mayor y Asociados (Switzerland and Mexico), informed Roberto Roy, executive secretary of the Panamanian Metro.

Initial Bidding Process for Panamanian Metro

August 2009

The Metro Secretary is looking for the project's main adviser, and for that it is preparing a technical cooperation agreement with the IDB and the CAF.

Such agreement will outline a process for choosing a head adviser for the project, who will develop, in conjunction with the Metro Secretary, the bidding basis for the construction of the metro.

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