Vialidad tenders consultancy for the fiscal inspection of rural pavement C-834

The Roads Directorate of the Atacama Region, under the Ministry of Public Works, has called for a public tender for consultancy services for the fiscal inspection of rural pavement conservation contracts for Route C-834, between kilometers 0 and 6.500, in the commune of Caldera, province of Copiapó. The notice was published in Section IV of the Official Gazette of the Republic of Chile, edition No. 44,561 of Tuesday, September 29, 2026, under official reference CVE 2876590. The process is conducted entirely online through the www.mercadopublico.cl platform.

The call appears in the tenders, competitions, summons, and lost documents section of the bulletin, headed by the Ministry of the Interior, and bears the signature of the Regional Ministerial Secretary of Public Works of the Atacama Region. This is a consultancy contract intended for the technical and administrative control of the route’s conservation works, with sectoral financing and a fiscal inspection consultancy expenditure type.

Object and conditions of the contract

The proposal is officially titled “Consultancy for Fiscal Inspection, rural pavement conservation contracts Route S/R C-834 km 0 to km 6.500, commune of Caldera, province of Copiapó, Atacama Region”. Its main conditions are:

• Contract No.: 429810.
• Mercado Público ID: 2011-15-o126.
• Description: consultancy for fiscal inspection for the technical and administrative control of the conservation contracts for Route C-834.
• Financing: sectoral.
• Expenditure type: fiscal inspection consultancy.
• Contract type: series of unit prices, with adjustment by CPI Index.
• Term: 270 calendar days.
• Official budget: will be provided along with the tender documents.

Participant requirements

The specialty required for bidders is defined in the inspection area, with specialty 7.1 for road works and airports, in the first category. The registration is recorded in the notice via a table of area, specialty, and category, without identifying specific companies or professionals.

Process calendar

The schedule published in the Official Gazette sets the following stages:

• Deadline for inquiries: October 14, 2026.
• Deadline for responses: October 21, 2026.
• Closing for receipt of technical and economic bids: October 28, at 10:00 hrs.
• Opening of technical bids: October 28, 2026, at 11:00 hrs.
• Opening of economic bids: November 4, 2026, at 11:00 hrs.

The notice lists the year 2024 in the line for the closing of bid receipts, while the rest of the calendar and the publication date correspond to 2026; the technical opening, scheduled for the same day, is dated 2026.

Impact for the sector

The tender opens a direct space for engineering consultancies and fiscal inspection companies with experience in road works, which must certify the specialty and category required to compete for a contract of 270 calendar days in the province of Copiapó. For the Atacama Region, the process aims to reinforce the technical and administrative supervision of rural pavement conservation in the Caldera section of Route C-834, a type of work whose inspection is usually left in the hands of external advisors. Interested parties have until October 14 to submit inquiries and until October 28 to present their bids electronically.

Source: Official Gazette of the Republic of Chile, No. 44,561, Tuesday, September 29, 2026, Section IV (Tenders, competitions, summons, and loss of documents), page 1 (official reference: CVE 2876590).