At the request of the private sector, selection of the management company for the convention center will be done directly and not through a tender.

The National Tourism Council (CNT) is the institution that will select the company that will be in charge of managing the convention center that is under construction in the Amador Causeway. According to authorities at the CNT, it was the same entrepreneurs who raised the need to avoid a tender process and instead award the contract directly.

The construction of the new convention center is 45% complete. The work, which will cost $194 million, is being carried out by the consortium CCA-Cocige, made up of the companies CCA Building Panama S.A., China State Construction Engineering Corporation Ltd. and Construcciones Civiles Generales S.A.

See: “Expansion of Amador Convention Center“

“… Sara Pardo, president of the Panamanian Association of Hotels, said that there is an urgent need to promote the complex for congresses and conventions, which will have capacity for 30 thousand people. “It is important to market the project so that it guaranteed to have events lined up when construction is complete and that infrastructure is not left idle,” she said.