K&M was engaged by IRHE, the national electric utility of Panama, to perform technical and financial due diligence evaluation of international tender offers for the turnkey rehabilitation and new capacity addition of the 130 MW Central 9 de Enero combined cycle power plant at Bahía de las Minas. Specifically, K&M evaluated adequacy of turbo-generator controls, whether the equipment fulfilled the necessary technical requirements of the plant and followed the terms of the RFP, and if the general standards for control (both manual and computerized) were compatible with the plant to receive and transmit the required dispatching information.