Today met in special session, the Plenary of the Municipal Corporation to discuss the situation of the Service "Maintenance of green areas in the municipality of Eagles" Contract.
The mayor of Procurement, Thomas Cosentino, has been commissioned to explain the process that is drafting the technical specifications for re-advertised hiring this service, amounting to half a million euros.
Asked by Councilman Isidro Carrasco, as this extraordinary plenary session was requested by the popular local group, Cosentino has clarified that on April 22 the case was initiated in anticipation that arrived Sept. 22 the existing contract would end and it was extended.
However, changes in European legislation regarding contracts harmonized legal, led the slowdown of this process and its publication in the Official Journal of the European Community.
Another added complexity, as explained by the mayor of Procurement, is reviewing prices as deindexation the Act, can not be made with reference to the CPI.
For all the difficulties rigged this process, the government team decided to commission the preparation of tender documents to an external company to City Hall, an expert in such matters.
Asked about the popular spokesman on cost this study, amounting to 5,000 euros, Councillor of Finance has clarified that the City Council is not going to cost anything because it will be the contractor finally take charge of the service who assume spending writing this technical specifications, which is working since July.
In addition, it has also been reported that this situation does not affect the garden maintenance service, which continues to be provided normally, neither the City Council nor the citizens.
The most tense of full time has been motivated by the prosecution, by the councilor Isidro Carrasco of "giving finger work drafting specifications to an external company", which has been easily answered by the mayor Tomas Cosentino, noting that it has not made any award to finger, but a direct hiring, since the amount is less than 6,000 euros and allowed by law.
The mayor, Mari Carmen Moreno, has closed plenary noting that "the most important thing is that a good technical specifications is made, so that the future contractor provides a service best That's the only goal we have,. That maintenance of green areas is excellent. "
Source: Ayuntamiento de Águilas