IFAM opens tender for the urban regulatory plan of Turrubares

The Institute for Municipal Development and Advisory (IFAM) has opened Public Tender 2026FP-000013 to contract professional services for the preparation of the Urban Regulatory Plan for the Municipality of Turrubares, in its first stage titled “Preliminary Background.” The call for bids was published in La Gaceta No. 213 on Tuesday, November 10, 2026, in the Public Procurement section, and sets the deadline for the receipt of offers until 2:30 p.m. on November 26, 2026.

The contracting is financed with resources from the Pre-investment Fund of the Ministry of Planning and Public Policy (MIDEPLAN) and is part of the regulatory plans program that IFAM executes with the country’s municipalities. The official notice bears the reference IN202601138606 and is signed by the executive president of the institution, José Miguel Jiménez Araya, in Moravia, on October 30, 2026.

The scope of the study and the called stage

The contractual object is the study “Professional services for the preparation of the Urban Regulatory Plan for the Municipality of Turrubares,” which corresponds only to the first stage of the tender: the “Preliminary Background.” The legal, technical, and administrative details are set forth in the bidding terms and conditions for that stage.

The bidding documents are available to all interested parties on the IFAM website, via the path Transparency, then Open Data, and finally the “Regulatory Plans” icon, or through the link published in the official notice: https://www.ifam.go.cr/FrontEnd/transparencia/datos_abiertos/detalle/4078/112.

A program with simultaneous tenders

The Turrubares call for bids joins other tenders from the same program. Public Tender 2026FP-000012, for the Urban Regulatory Plan of the Municipality of Acosta, was published in La Gaceta No. 211 on November 6, 2026, also under the “Preliminary Background” modality and with financing from the MIDEPLAN Pre-investment Fund.

Recent history shows that the process does not always succeed: tenders 2026FP-000008 and 2026FP-000009, corresponding to the selected municipalities from groups B.1 and B.2, were declared unsuccessful by agreements twenty-two and twenty-three, chapter five, of the ordinary session 25-2026 of the IFAM Board of Directors, held on August 18, 2026, as published in La Gaceta No. 167 on September 4, 2026.

How to submit the offer

Interested parties must meet these conditions, according to the official notice:

• Bids from potential bidders will be received until 2:30 p.m. on November 26, 2026, exclusively via the email address contrataciones@ifam.go.cr.
• The bidding documents containing the legal, technical, and administrative specifications can be obtained on the IFAM website, under the Transparency option, Open Data section, “Planes Reguladores” (Regulatory Plans) icon.
• Any inquiries or clarifications must be submitted digitally to contrataciones@ifam.go.cr; no inquiries or bids will be accepted in physical format.
• The institution will not receive documents in physical format for this procedure.

The tender is published under the official reference IN202601138606 and is signed by the Executive Presidency of IFAM, indicating a single publication in the official gazette.

Impact for consulting firms and planners

The tender opens a concrete opportunity for consulting firms, architects, engineers, and professionals in urban and territorial planning who work with municipalities, in a canton that until now did not have an urban planning instrument contracted through this route. Since it involves the preliminary background stage and a project with pre-investment resources from MIDEPLAN, the process is also of interest as a sign of the pace at which IFAM is reactivating the portfolio of regulatory plans following the tenders declared void in August 2026: the deadline to bid expires in just over two weeks and does not allow for in-person delivery.

Source: La Gaceta, No. 213 of November 10, 2026, Public Procurement, page 57 (official reference: IN202601138606).