Panama Canal Will Seek New Bids for a Revamped Supply

An ambitious $2-billion effort by the Panama Canal Authority to address the historic waterway's dire freshwater supply issues has been restarted with a new tender expected to be released by 2024. The agency has contracted the US Army Corps of Engineers to assist in defining the scope of work for the forthcoming bid package to reduce risk to bidders. In its previous request for qualifications issued in 2020, the authority said the contractor would be responsible for program concept, design and construction, which was set to include identifying sites where component projects would be built, and managing needed investigations, surveys and studies, including those to cover hydrological, climatic and environmental conditions.