Mexico awards Quintana Roo road works, voids bridge tender

Mexico’s infrastructure, communications and transportation ministry (SICT) has awarded study and construction contracts worth an estimated 6bn pesos (US$288mn) for road projects in and around tourism hub Cancún, in Quintana Roo state. 

A tender for construction of the most important of the works, the 8.8km Nichupté bridge, was declared void, according to records on procurement site Compranet. 

The road works are the estimated 900mn-peso rehabilitation of the Luis Donaldo Colosio boulevard, the rehabilitation of the junction to the Cancún airport at a cost of 200mn pesos, and the new 150mn-peso Chac Mool avenue.

BNamericas takes a look at how these projects are progressing. 

Awarded contracts

The contracts are for the rehabilitation of the Luis Donaldo Colosio boulevard, involving a 13.4km stretch running in front of the main thoroughfare in Cancún's hotel district, and the rehabilitation of the junction between Cancún airport and federal highway 307, which runs down the Yucatán Peninsula to Chetumal. 

The first of the contracts was awarded to Cemex Concretos for 1bn pesos at the end of May, according to Compranet, while the second was awarded at the same time to a consortium comprising Canteras Peninsulares and Remolcadores para Construcción for 350mn pesos. 

On Tuesday, SICT said in a statement that both projects had already begun and that investments for them would be allocated through 2023. 

The ministry also awarded two study contracts to prepare the construction tender for the 4.5km Chac Mool avenue, between the airport junction and Cancún. The road will alleviate congestion during the works on the Luis Donaldo Colosio boulevard.

A pre-investment study contract worth 3mn pesos was awarded on May 13 to a consortium comprising Sacbe Consultoría y Proyectos and Fotogrametría y Servicios Profesionale, while a 950,000-peso contract for carrying out the road’s environmental impact study was granted to Jean Cristian Blancas Hernandez on the same day. 

Voided tender

On June 7, SICT declared void the tender it had launched for the Nichupté bridge, which would cross a lagoon in the city’s hotel district. The project also included an access road at Luis Donaldo Colosio boulevard and one at Kukulkan boulevard, according to the original tender plans.

SICT had received six offers on May 19 but they are failed to meet a minimum score that took into account legal, technical and economic aspects. 

Among the bidders were GAMI Ingeniería e Instalaciones, ICA Constructora de Infraestructura, Mota-Engil México and a consortium comprising Citcocomex, FMI Proyects and La Empresa Energycocomex.

A new tender could be held, but it would be a restricted process with invited bidders, according to procurement law.