# Bidding in Costa Rica as a foreign company

> Whether a company established in the EU may bid for public contracts in Costa Rica, the instrument that decides it, and the channels it would register on.

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## A trade agreement with the EU

Partly, and the agreement says how far. EU and Central America Association Agreement, public procurement title gives EU suppliers access to the procurement it lists. As with the WTO agreement, the operative part is the annexes: which buyers, which sectors, which thresholds. It is narrower than the single market, and reading it before quoting is the difference between a bid and a wasted week.

Instrument: EU and Central America Association Agreement, public procurement title.

## Where you would register

- SICOP (https://www.sicop.go.cr): Costa Rica's integrated public purchasing system.
- CGR, concursos vigentes (https://cgrweb.cgr.go.cr/apex/f?p=307:24): The comptroller's registry of active procedures.
- La Gaceta (https://www.imprentanacional.go.cr/gaceta/): The official gazette's tender notices.

## A right to bid is not a notice

9 sources publish public procurement in Costa Rica and 4 of them are read by a dedicated connector. Registering on the national portal and stopping there watches one address out of 9. Every source: https://trinta.ai/government-tenders/costa-rica

This is not legal advice. Trade agreements grant what their annexes list, and a particular procedure's documents can require local registration, an agent or local content that no agreement overrides.

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