OBS_VALUE: There are two contracting regimes in the new General Law on Public Procurement:Ordinary regime: a major bidding (licitación mayor) procedure will be carried out in the contracting of goods and services whose estimate is greater than 238,223,960 colones, minor bidding licitación menor) in the contracting of goods and services whose estimate equal to or less 238,223,960 colones but greater than 59,555,990 colones and reduced bidding (licitación reducida) in those cases in which estimate is equal to or less than 59,555,990 colones;Differentiated regime: contracts made by national non-financial public companies, municipal non-financial public companies, banking financial public institutions and non-banking financial public institutions, listed in the Institutional Classification of the Public Sector issued by the Ministry of Finance, will carry out the major bidding (licitación mayor) procedure in the contracting of goods and services whose estimate is greater than 285,868,752 colones, minor bidding (licitación menor) in the contracting of goods and services whose estimate is equal to or less than 285,868,752 colones but greater than 71,467,188 colones and reduced bidding (licitación reducida) in those cases whose estimate is equal to or less than 71,467,188 colones.The thresholds will be updated by the Comptroller General of the Republic, in the second half of December, using the amount of development units established by the Central Bank of Costa Rica for December 15 of each year and will govern from January 1 to December 31 of the year following its publication.