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Electric Train Project in Costa Rica: Regulatory Challenges

Costa Rica’s electric train project faces regulatory hurdles in bidding, permits, and expropriations, requiring strong coordination to enable efficient large-scale infrastructure development.

New Guide on Public Procurement Under Competition Law

This new guide helps detect and prevent collusion in public procurement, key for companies to ensure compliance and avoid risks in Costa Rica’s tender processes.

Costa Rica | The Use of Fiduciary Guarantees to Secure Investment in the Framework of Public Contracts

In a significant number of cases, particularly in medium or large-scale public projects, the companies that inject their investment into this type of project are not necessarily the entity that has directly tendered and assumed the contract with the State, or even part of the same economic group as a parent company or sister company. Economic...

The Constitutional Court Identifies Breaches to the Constitution in the Jaguar 2.0 Bill Proposed by the Executive Branch

The Constitutional Court examined the "Jaguar Law" project (legislative file No. 24.467) presented by the Executive Branch, which proposes a reform to the General Law on Public Procurement.