MOP tenders technical consultancy for the fiscal inspection of the Chañaral airfield

The Airport Directorate of the Atacama Region, under the Ministry of Public Works, published this Thursday, November 12, 2026, in the Official Gazette of the Republic of Chile, the public tender for the “Technical Advisory to the Fiscal Inspection for the Routine Conservation of Fences and Movement Area of the Chañaral Aerodrome.” The process is handled electronically on the www.mercadopublico.cl platform under Public Market ID No. 1041-8-O126 and Contract No. 438.888, according to official notice CVE 2898965 published in Section IV of the bulletin (No. 44,597).

The purpose of the contract is to support the Fiscal Inspector in controlling the correct execution of the items that make up the routine conservation work of the fences and the movement area of the aerodrome. The expenditure is classified as the contracting of consultancies with sectoral financing, which places the contracting within the scope of external project advisories that the MOP hires to reinforce the supervision of its regional projects.

Budget and contract conditions

The notice sets the economic and execution conditions of the service:

• Official budget: $111,896,662, net value.
• Contract type: series of unit prices, with readjustment.
• Execution period: 180 days.
• Financing: sectoral.
• Expenditure type: contracting of consultancies.

These conditions imply that bidders must quote by unit items and that payments will be adjusted according to the readjustment mechanism defined in the terms and conditions during the six planned months of advisory.

Required specialty for participants

The participation requirement focuses on a single technical specialty:

• Acronym 7.1, denomination “Road Works and Airports”, category Second.

That is, the tender is limited to consultants and professionals registered in the MOP contractor registry in that specialty and category, not to any engineering service provider. For the regional market, this reduces competition to a limited universe of companies qualified in road and airport works.

Process calendar

The official schedule establishes five successive milestones:

• Deadline for inquiries: November 23, 2026, at 12:00 hrs.
• Deadline for responses: November 27, 2026, at 17:00 hrs.
• Closing for receipt of technical and economic bids: December 4, 2026, at 09:45 hrs.
• Opening of technical bids: December 8, 2026, at 10:00 hrs.
• Opening of economic bids: December 15, 2026, at 10:00 hrs.

Inquiries and responses are channeled through the same electronic platform, so that clarifications regarding the terms and items are recorded before the closing, scheduled for the first week of December.

Regional issuance and scope

The notice was issued by the Regional Ministerial Secretariat of Public Works of the Atacama Region and appears in the tenders, competitions, and summons section of the bulletin, under the heading of the Ministry of Public Works, Undersecretariat of Public Works. The publication in the Official Gazette grants the call official status and constitutes the public reference for any potential claims or clarifications regarding the process.

The tender is of direct interest to engineering consultancies and public works contractors from the Atacama Region qualified in specialty 7.1, Second category, seeking a six-month supervision contract with a net budget exceeding 111 million pesos. The Chañaral airfield is part of the regional airport infrastructure network that the MOP maintains through its regional directorates, and the advisory to the fiscal inspection is the instance that guarantees the technical control of those conservation works.

Source: Official Gazette of the Republic of Chile, No. 44,597, Thursday, November 12, 2026, Section IV (Tenders, competitions, summons, and loss of documents), page 1 (official reference: CVE 2898965).