The General Directorate of Public Contracts (DGCP) annulled 39 award contracts to buy uniforms, backpacks and school kits after reporting to find irregularities in the hiring made by the National Institute of Student Welfare (INABIE).
“Of 151 awarded suppliers, the DGCP decided to annul the awards of 18 contracts and ordered the INABIE to reevaluation of 25 bidders, through new technical visits made by qualified experts with mandatory audiovisual records,” he said in the case of backpacks and school kits.
He ordered to initiate the ex officio sanctioning procedure against suppliers for presenting false documentation. The measures are contained in the resolutions RIC-0113-2025 and the RIC-0114-2025
In the national public tender INABIE CCC-LPN -2024-0010, for the preparation and acquisition of backpacks and school kits for periods 2025-2026 and 2026-2027, multiple irregularities were confirmed in technical and economic evaluations, in the award and compliance with the principles of equality, transparency and free competition, ”he said.
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He added that other findings detected by the DGCP in that process and described in resolution RIC-0113-2025 are altered documentation or with indications of falsehood, presented by suppliers.
In addition, absence and inconsistencies in technical visits, including lack of videos and participation of formally not designated experts.
Other shortcomings found in the process are deficiencies in the evaluation of economic guarantees and in the motivation of awards; collusion indications and conflicts of interest between awarded suppliers.
Irregularities were also found in the bidding procedure for clothing and acquiring poles and school pants for public educational centers in the 2025-2026 and 2026-2027 school period, in the DGCP found that as in the previous processes were awarded suppliers that presented false documents and with links with each other, “verifying the existence of collusion indications”.
He argued that the INABIE Purchasing Committee granted exceptionalities after the stage of definitive technical evaluation in violation at the beginning of the current norm and did not provide evidence, or justifications to contrast the data raised by experts.
“Through resolution RIC-0114-2025 of 209 suppliers awarded the governing body decided to annul 21 awards and ordered the INABIE to designate qualified experts that are not in conflict of interest to reevaluate the offers of 64 companies with new technical visits, which must be documented with the use of the good practice of body chambers.
