The Government of Panama has awarded a contract to a consortium comprised Brazil’s Norberto Odebrecht and FCC of Spain for the construction of the city’s metro Line 2.
The Consorcio Línea 2 consortium offered $1.86bn for the contract and entered the best bid on the ministry’s assessment criteria.
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Consorcio Línea 2 scored 396 points in the technical evaluation and 460 in the economic assessment, an overall score of 856.
The second bidder was Consorcio Panametro, a Chinese-Spanish venture, which submitted the lowest bid at $1.67bn but only scored 770 points.
Consorcio UTE Panama II, a consortium of ACS, Spain, Mexico’s ICA and Graña y Montero, Peru, finished third with a bid of $2.08bn and a score of 737 in the evaluation.
The scope of work under the contract will include engineering design services, construction of the civilworks, and installation of auxiliary works on the line, supply and installation of the railway line, including rolling stock.
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By GlobalDataPanamá City metro Line 2 will include 16 stations and 21km of elevated track, connecting stations from the San Miguelito district to the 24 de diciembre district.
The line will run east from an interchange with Line 1 at San Miguelito to San Antonio, and Hospital del Este, terminating at Nuevo Tocumen.
FCC and Odebrecht working in a consortium with Alstom have already built the city’s metro Line 1, which opened in April 2014 making it the first metro line in Central America.
