National Health Insurance (SENASA) published on Monday on the purchasing portal and Public hiring A call to hire a technological platform aimed at managing the authorizations of medicines of its affiliates, with an estimated budget of 198 million pesos.
The tenderidentified with the Ars reference SENASA-CCC-PEEX-2025-0004, is carried out at a time when the entity is under an institutional crisis and in the midst of a investigation process by the Public Ministry for irregularities detected in the institution.
The reference indicates that proposals They can be received from Monday, September 29, from two in the afternoon, until Monday, October 20 at nine in the morning.
That same day, at ten in the morning, the Technical offers and economic in the Cosenasa Hall, located at the administrative and financial headquarters of the institution, in the Naco Ensanche.
According to the call documents, the Base budget For this hiring amounts to 66 million pesos annually (about 5.5 million per month), with a duration of 36 months, which totals the 198 million.
He Award criteria It may be by lower priceprovided that the proposal meets the Technical specifications established in the specifications.
- The award will be made by all the requested services.
The platform It must supervise the dispensing of medicines, record the billing of pharmaceutical providers, audit claims and guarantee interoperability between SENASAits network of pharmacies and affiliates.
Under investigation
SENASA is under the magnifying glass Public Ministry and the Account Chamber For a financial deficit Millionaire and complaints of irregular contracts. The investigation includes the analysis of contracts granted to private providers, with suspicions of undercover privatization of services of the subsidized regime.
He Public Ministry ensures that it advances in the research On an alleged millionaire fraud, whose amount has not yet been estimated, operated through fictitious medical authorizations and a “Call Center parallel“That managed procedures outside the official channels.
Clarification demands
Organisms of the Civil Society They have asked that the investigation be “complete, deep and transparent”, warning that the denounced irregularities could compromise the sustainability of the health system.
The Etikos Foundation He also demanded exemplary sanctions and greater scrutiny about the Public Resources Management In the health sector.
For its part, the open research line in the Attorney General’s Office Check millionaire contracts that SENASA would have signed without sufficient control or verification of the services provided. The report of the television program “N Investiga” has been summoned as evidence of payments made to private entities without certainty that the agreed services had been fulfilled.
