In the midst of a global food crisis, the Rural Agricultural Productive Development Program (Rural Agriculture), of the Ministry of Agrarian Development and Irrigation (Midagri) reported that the fertilizer acquisition process was declared void as the technical specifications requested from the bidding companies by the user area were not met.
“It was declared void after the evaluation committee of the foreign proposals for the acquisition of agricultural fertilizer (urea) thoroughly reviewed them and determined, in a public session, that none of the bidders complied with the technical specifications prepared by the user area.”, he indicated.
He pointed out that in the next few hours the file will be sent to the user area for it to proceed, according to its powers. This is in accordance with Emergency Decree No. 013-2022.
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It should be noted that hours before, Agro Rural mentioned that the choice of the company comes after an intense day of the evaluation committee, whose members had to thoroughly analyze last Saturday, June 4, each of the 22 sales proposals that came to the semifinal stage, after exceeding the requirements stipulated by the working group.
“There were 22 intentions or proposals for the acquisition of fertilizers received from foreign companies from the countries, Brazil, Panama, United Arab Emirates, Turkey, United States, Russia, Mexico, Egypt, China, Venezuela, Czech Republic and Paraguay, of which three were valid and 19 invalid”, said the executive director of Agro Rural, Rogelio Huamaní.
He added that among the three accepted proposals, there was a company that has presented different plans on two occasions.
“Therefore, the evaluation committee is only admitting two proposals that will be evaluated today to define who will be the next provider of urea from the country“, accurate.
In this sense, it was expected to acquire 73,529 tons of urea perlada to be distributed to the less favored farmers of the national territory.