$480,000 tender for cleaning truck suspended

The public tender for the acquisition of a $480,000, suction truck to clean sewers proposed by the mayor’s office led by José Luis Fábrega, has been suspended.

The Administrative Court of Public Procurement admitted an appeal against said tender, presented by the company Distribuidora David, SA.

The company was one of the participants in the tender. In a “conduct report” in response to the appeal, Mayor Fábrega details how the public act was.

He said that the tender was called last February and an approval meeting was held in March, in which five interested companies participated.

On the day the proposals were received, May 4, only two companies submitted offers: Grupo Tiesa, SA, which submitted a proposal for $479,360; and Distribuidora David, SA, which offered $469,000.

An evaluation commission of the public act concluded, in its report of May 11, that Distribuidora David, SA “has not complied with all the requirements established in the statement of objections.”

Therefore, the Mayor’s Office proceeded to award the contract to the Tiesa group, through a municipal resolution on May 19.

Distributor David did not sit idly by and challenged 10 days later. The company requested that the award be revoked and a new tender is called “so that this act can be awarded under the principle of equal opportunities. “

According to Fábrega, the company did not comply with what was established in the statement of objections and supports the decision of the evaluation commission. For this reason, it asked the Procurement Court to confirm the award resolution in favor of Grupo Tiesa, SA.

The act remains suspended until the Court rules.

According to the statement of charges, the vehicle would be assigned to the district of El Chorrillo “due to the need in all sectors of the district to provide hygienic security, in terms of preventing the different streets, avenues and existing pipes from collapsing, due to the accumulation of earth, mud, stone and garbage that occurs mainly during the rainy season and when the tide rises.