At a glance
- The authority wants a Tier III-quality facility with redundant power and cooling, security, monitoring, underground conduits and fiber interconnections.
- Puerto Rico is already a landing point for more than a dozen current and planned cables, most coming ashore around San Juan.
- The likely anchor tenant is the 600-kilometer system Puerto Rico tendered last year, set to land at San Juan, Ponce and Mayagüez in Puerto Rico and at St. Croix in the US Virgin Islands.
Puerto Rico's Infrastructure Financing Authority is tendering a Mayagüez submarine cable landing station that can host up to four cables. Proposals are due Dec. 7 and bid documents are available Nov. 4–13.
The authority wants a Tier III-quality facility with redundant power and cooling, security, monitoring, underground conduits and fiber interconnections. The scope includes civil and structural works, electrical and mechanical installations, and the onshore and coastal infrastructure. AFI has not named an anchor cable or set a development timeline.
Puerto Rico is already a landing point for more than a dozen current and planned cables, most coming ashore around San Juan. A four-cable station at Mayagüez would give cable owners and their investors a west-coast alternative to the San Juan-area landings.
The likely anchor tenant is the 600-kilometer system Puerto Rico tendered last year, set to land at San Juan, Ponce and Mayagüez in Puerto Rico and at St. Croix in the US Virgin Islands. If that cable lands as planned, the station would still have capacity for three more. The tender covers the building and interconnection works; the cables are separate projects.
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