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Mexico opening highway tender process

Four highway concessions will be due for tender shortly. The country’s Secretariat for Communications and Transport (SCT) is working on these four motorway concessions and intends to open the tender process in the next few months. The highway projects being considered for tender include a new link Indios Verdes and Santa Clara, the Las Varas-Puerto Vallarta connection, the Tulum highway and Orizaba highway. SCT recently put the Hermosillo highway project out to tender recently and this is generating interes
March 16, 2015 Read time: 1 min
RSSFour highway concessions will be due for tender shortly. The country’s Secretariat for Communications and Transport (3067 SCT) is working on these four motorway concessions and intends to open the tender process in the next few months. The highway projects being considered for tender include a new link Indios Verdes and Santa Clara, the Las Varas-Puerto Vallarta connection, the Tulum highway and Orizaba highway. SCT recently put the Hermosillo highway project out to tender recently and this is generating interest from a number of firms.

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