An ambitious $2-billion effort by the Panama Canal Authority to address the historic waterway’s dwindling freshwater supply has been restarted with a new tender set for release within two years. The agency now has contracted the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to help define the scope of work for the forthcoming bid package—in a move bidders sought to reduce project risk.
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 for hydrological, climatic and environmental conditions.
