Global Courant
The Mexican company Troquelados e Impresos, Sociedad Anónima de Capital Variable, which was awarded the purchase of 1,372,800 metal plates for vehicles and 924,000 for motorcycles, requested an extension for compliance with the contract, which was approved by the Superintendency of Tax Administration (SAT) for a period of 120 days.
The total award of the contract is for Q69.9 million through the tender number SAT-LI-23-2021, to acquire 686 thousand 400 pairs of metallic badges for two-plate vehicles (that is, 1 million 372 thousand 800) and 924 a thousand metal plates for those of one. In total there would be 2 million 296 thousand 800 plates.
The contract was awarded in 2022 and entered into force on May 17 of that year for a period of 495 days. The 120-day extension will take effect from next September 23.
The firm has presented delays in the deliveries that had to be made in six batches, for which the company has been fined for around Q7 million. But to date they are still pending delivery, from batch four onwards and as observed in the distribution of deliveries established in the contract (published in Guatecompras), the number of pending plates amounts to 1 million 422 thousand 960 (62%) .
The data is approximate, taking into account that the first three batches delivered, according to the aforementioned distribution, add up to 205,920 pairs (411,840 individual ones), while for one-plate vehicles, the first three batches add up to 462,000.
Despite these delays, Superintendent Marco Livio Díaz assured on May 30 that there is no risk of plate shortages this year, and with the delivery of the fourth batch there would be no risk in 2024 either.
However, the official avoided disclosing how many of these badges are in existence, for which the information was requested from the social communication office of that entity, but at the close of this edition they had not responded.
The company
The company Troquelados e Impresos, Sociedad Anónima de Capital Variable, appears in Guatecompras as a foreign company registered in the country in 2020, with fiscal domicile in zone 4. The legal representative is Gustavo Adolfo Martínez Luna.
The company’s website indicates that it is of Mexican origin, founded in 1968 and with 45 years of experience manufacturing license plates.
This is the only contract that appears registered in Guatecompras and the other bidders in that tender were GSI and Tönnjes Card International, SA
Vehicle park reached 5 million
The country’s vehicle fleet has already reached 5 million 10 thousand 426 vehicles, according to SAT records as of April 30, 2023.
Of these, 2.3 million are motorcycles, 868,300 are automobiles, 728,893 are pickup trucks, and 691,312 are vans, vans, and panel trucks. The rest is in other classifications.
Motorcycles outnumbered automobiles as of 2009 and in 10 years, from December 2012 to the end of 2022, they went from 756,438 registered units to 2,190,578 (189.6% more). In four months of 2023, 116,316 have been added.
Cars, between January and April 2023, increased by 12,932 and in 10 years they grew 50%.
