IFAM tenders the urban regulatory plan of San Mateo under 2026FP-000014

The Institute for Municipal Development and Advisory (IFAM) has opened public tender No. 2026FP-000014 to contract “Professional services for the preparation of the Urban Regulatory Plan for the Municipality of San Mateo,” in its first stage titled “Preliminary Background.” The call is published in La Gaceta No. 214 on Wednesday, November 11, 2026, in the Public Procurement section, and sets the deadline for the receipt of bids for 2:30 p.m. on November 27, 2026.

Financing and scope of the tender

The study will be financed with resources from the Pre-investment Fund of the Ministry of Planning and Public Policy (MIDEPLAN), which places the process within the state co-financing scheme through which IFAM promotes territorial planning instruments in local governments.

• Stage called: first phase of the tender, “Preliminary Background.”
• Objective: professional services to prepare the Urban Regulatory Plan of San Mateo.
• Contracting entity: IFAM, in coordination with the beneficiary municipality.
• Source of funds: Pre-investment Fund of MIDEPLAN.

Deadlines, email, and participation conditions

The call is addressed to all interested natural and legal persons. IFAM warned that it will not receive any inquiries or bids in physical format: all communication must be sent digitally to the email contrataciones@ifam.go.cr.

• Deadline date and time for receipt of bids: November 27, 2026, at 2:30 p.m.
• Sole means of submission: email contrataciones@ifam.go.cr.
• Inquiries and clarifications: also via digital means, to the same email.
• Bidding documents: available on the IFAM website, under the path Transparency, Open Data, “Regulatory Plans” icon.

The bidding documents contain the legal, technical, and administrative specifications for this first stage and are available to interested parties at the link published by the institution within its open data portal.

A series of ongoing tenders

2026FP-000014 is not an isolated process. In the November 10, 2026 edition, La Gaceta No. 213 published public tender 2026FP-000013 for the Urban Regulatory Plan of the Municipality of Turrubares, with bids accepted until November 26, and on November 6, 2026FP-000012 was disclosed for the Municipality of Acosta, both under the same financing scheme from the MIDEPLAN Pre-investment Fund and with exclusively digital submission.

The sequence confirms that the IFAM is executing a staggered schedule of tenders for regulatory plans, with consecutive deadlines in the last week of November. Previously, tenders 2026FP-000008 and 2026FP-000009, aimed at selected groups of municipalities, were declared unsuccessful by agreement of the Board of Directors and received the approval of the Pre-investment Fund through official letters CARTA-MIDEPLAN-UFP-0165-2026 and CARTA-MIDEPLAN-UFP-0166-2026, which explains the reformulation of the calls for proposals by municipality.

Closing

For consulting firms and professionals in engineering, architecture, and urban planning, 2026FP-000014 represents a two-and-a-half-week window to prepare proposals, with the particularity that only electronic submissions are permitted. For the inhabitants of San Mateo, the tender opens the institutional path toward an instrument that will define land use and urban growth for the canton, with pre-investment financing and coordination between the IFAM and the municipality. The call for proposals was signed in Moravia on October 30, 2026, by the executive president of the IFAM, Lic. José Miguel Jiménez Araya.

Source: La Gaceta, No. 214 of November 11, 2026, Public Procurement / Tenders, p. 68 (official reference: IN202601138935).