$1 million tourism website cheap – Martinelli

The Tourism Authority of Panama (ATP), by Solomon Shamah, paid $ 1 million to Pensanómica, SA for the design and administration of visitpanama.com, but an advertising company Paid less than $150,000 for the same service.

La Prensa reports that advertising company BB & M, SA paid $149,520. For the service in 2010.

That is, the ATP disbursed $447,000 in 2012 and $600,000 in 2013 for an identical service.
According to the contract between BB & M, SA and Pensanómica, S.A. "The parties agree that the total cost of the project and the provision of accommodation services and administration as well as any costs associated with the resources that the provider [Pensanómica, SA] provide for the execution of the services is $149,520, plus ITBMS
The contract, which was seen by La Prensa also states that "the service must be billed and paid based on a monthly cost of $12 460, plus taxes.
However, on Aug. 19 while addressing the National Assembly, Shamah said the contract between the institution that owns and Pensanómica, SA had been inherited.
The president, Ricardo Martinelli, said Monday, August 1 that the payment by the ATP of $1 million to Pensanómica, SA is "cheap". "This is not a website. It is a complex project. Here have wanted distort everything. When this project was presented in the Cabinet, I personally saw itas cheap … if you want to know the truth, "said Martinelli.