Skip to main content

New road tender packages for Brazil being offered

Brazil is launching the tendering process for a series of road projects that extend a total of 16,000km. These projects are being planned to open for tender by 2021. From 7,000-8,000km of road projects will open for tender in 2020 and another 8,000km will open to tender in 2021. In addition a number of other road projects will open to tender in 2022. A series of feasibility studies are being carried out at present for a number of major road projects. Approval for the BR-101 highway project in Santa Catarina
September 18, 2019 Read time: 1 min
Brazil is launching the tendering process for a series of road projects that extend a total of 16,000km. These projects are being planned to open for tender by 2021. From 7,000-8,000km of road projects will open for tender in 2020 and another 8,000km will open to tender in 2021. In addition a number of other road projects will open to tender in 2022. A series of feasibility studies are being carried out at present for a number of major road projects. Approval for the BR-101 highway project in Santa Catarina is due shortly.

Related Content

  • Consortium competing for concession contract in Brazil
    August 29, 2014
    The tender process for a major highway project in Brazil attracted only one offer. The tender concerns a 66km stretch of the northern metropolitan road in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais State. The offer came from the Rota Metropolitana Norte consortium, comprising Odebrecht TransPort with a 60% share and EcoRodovias and Barbosa Mello Participacoes e Investimentos with 20% each. The deal has yet to be confirmed. Once signed, the contract will be valid for 30 years with the possibility that it could be then ext
  • Series of new road projects in planning for Guatemala
    August 14, 2014
    A series of major road projects in Guatemala now look set to go ahead. A US$340 million loan from the Brazilian National Development Bank (BNDES) will most likely fund work to widen the 131km Mayuelas-Puerto Santo Tomas de Castilla route to four lanes. A final decision on the financial package required for this project is due in September 2014. Meanwhile the tender process is opening for a 100km stretch of road running through El Rancho, San Agustin Acasaguastlan, El Progreso to Mayuelas, Gualan, Zacapa. Th
  • Panama road widening work
    September 19, 2022
    Road widening will be carried out on a key route in Panama.
  • Chile highway tender in 2020
    November 18, 2019
    The tender process will be opened for a new highway project in Chile in early 2020, with technical and economic bids due in the first quarter. The project aims to widen and upgrade the Route 5 stretch connecting the cities of Talca and Chillan in central Chile. The project is expected to cost US$796 million and the route will be offered under a concession package lasting 25 years. The route is run under a concession by ISA Intervial at present, which is due to cease in June 2020.