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Santo Domingo. - The Government, through the School Infrastructure Directorate (DIE) and with the support of the Dominican College of Engineers, Architects and Surveyors (CODIA), announced the launch of a massive bidding process and raffles, to renovate 496 educational centers with corrective maintenance, which require intervention throughout the national territory.
The initiative, which will have an estimated investment of 2.026 billion pesos, of which 1.2 billion will be awarded through raffles in coordination with CODIA and 826 million via bidding.
The same will be executed through the implementation of the "24/7-365 Plan", which consists of running jobs 365 days a year, to expedite corrective maintenance with the purpose that schools, high schools and polytechnics are in optimal conditions for students, teachers and administrative staff, thereby guaranteeing the strengthening of Education.
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Engineer Roberto Herrera, director of School Infrastructure, reported that through these tenders and raffles that will be held within the framework of the Law and with total transparency, engineering professionals and contracting companies will be hired to carry out the corrective maintenance of 496 schools throughout the national territory, following a survey by the institution's technical staff in coordination with the different sections of the Dominican Association of Teachers (ADP), the Association of Parents, Mothers and Friends of the School (APMAE), the regional and district directors of education and the directors of educational centers. During a press conference held at the School Infrastructure Directorate in the company of CODIA executives, Herrera highlighted that the project to be executed in the coming months, by instructions of President Luis Abinader and with the supervision of the Minister of Education, Luis Miguel De Camps, is part of a Strategic Plan of the Government, to continue with the definitive solution of the schools that require corrective maintenance, so that like any developed nation, it only focuses on working on preventive maintenance, which will guarantee greater tranquility to the educational family in the Dominican Republic. "Today we announce to the country and mainly to the educational community, the implementation of the 24/7-365 Corrective Maintenance Plan and the launch of a major bidding and raffle process, to intervene in some 496 school campuses with corrective maintenance, which we have identified as the most priority, and to which we must respond as a Government. These are concrete steps and actions by instructions of our President Luis Abinader and with the support of the Minister of Education, Luis Miguel De Camps, to respond to the most urgent needs in terms of school infrastructure," the official underlined. Meanwhile, the president of the Dominican College of Engineers, Architects and Surveyors (CODIA), engineer Enrique Rosario, thanked Roberto Herrera, head of the DIE, for launching these processes that will benefit the more than 50,000 members of the guild and improve the physical spaces for learning and teaching. "On behalf of the Dominican College of Engineers, Architects, and Surveyors (CODIA), I thank engineer Roberto Herrera Polanco, director of the School Infrastructure Directorate, for accepting our request and carrying out this raffle that will benefit more than 50,000 members of the College, a request we made in September 2025 and today we have favorable results," expressed the head of the entity that groups together engineering professionals. Following the arrival of engineer Roberto Herrera and a large team of professionals and technicians to the School Infrastructure Directorate, with the support of President Luis Abinader and Minister Luis Miguel De Camps, for the first time in history, from that institution the plans and actions necessary to resolve the problem of classroom deficit and solve the deterioration conditions presented by hundreds of schools throughout the country are implemented, putting into action two fundamental aspects that mark the current management: efficiency and transparency. For 2026, the School Infrastructure Directorate (DIE) aims to deliver more than 2,400 new classrooms and continue the execution of the 24/7 Plan, working 365 days a year, with the objective of continuing to reduce the deficit of educational spaces and at the same time carrying out the necessary corrective maintenance in the schools, as one of the fundamental pillars in the country's education system. In the meeting with the press, the engineers César Ramirez, in charge of Maintenance of the School Infrastructure Directorate; Osiris García, in charge of Bidded Maintenance; Carlos Zapata, in charge of the Works by Administration Unit; Carlos Martínez, in charge of Social and Community Empowerment; the journalist Vargavila Riverón, in charge of Communications of the DIE; the engineer Nelson Colón, president of the Council of the Nucleus of Civil Engineers of CODIA and the architect George Richardson, Secretary General of CODIA, were present.
