The company Juan Gerardo Lezcano Bernis was awarded for a maximum value that is close to G. 7,000,000,000. The call for bids corresponded to the Contracting of Maintenance Services for Air Conditioners with Provision of Spare Parts on Demand for the IPS Central Hospital.
In this way, a total of 105 items were awarded, under the category of Cleaning Services, Maintenance and Minor and Major Repairs of Installations, Machinery and Vehicles. However, two other companies also submitted to the call and lost out despite having the cheapest offers for the convener.
Ricardo Agripino Galarza Chamorro, another of the bidders presented, had offered a total price of G. 90,000,000 and Airetec SRL, offered a figure of G. 91,000,000. For his part, Juan Gerardo Lezcano Bernis presented an offer of G. 124,041,002, G. 31 million more than the price of Airetec SRL
However, the aforementioned firm was disqualified because it allegedly did not comply with the bidding terms and conditions, in relation to the due presentation of the offer maintenance guarantee. Likewise, the company Ricardo Agripino Galarza Chamorro was disqualified because it presented a Commercial Patent with an expiration date.
ALLEGED COMPLAINTS
According to the declarations of Mauricio Vera, in charge of sales and adjudications of Airetec SRL, the adjudication process was surrounded by questions. He argued that when it came to disqualifying his company, they did not even use convincing documentation that ensures non-compliance with the bidding terms and conditions.
Mauricio Vera
On the other hand, Vera compared her disqualification in this call with a situation they went through with the SNPP. It turns out that unlike the arguments made by the IPS, the exception of the SNPP was accompanied by a series of documents, as well as reasons founded by the contracting law.
According to complaints about the winning company of the IPS call, it benefits because it appears as a proxy for a director of the Previsional. Among his 53 listed participations in his history, Juan Gerardo Lezcano Bernis has won 45 calls for bids to date and within the processes he has already benefited from four awards by the IPS.
Given this, Andrew Lezcano, general manager of the Juan Gerardo Lezcano Bernis firm and son of the legal representative, argued that the company does not correspond to the name of any IPS official and that they are not related to any person from the Social Security.
Likewise, he stressed that they have more than 20 years of experience and that their low participations and awards are due to the fact that they do not work exclusively in the field of public contracting, since they work directly with various private companies such as Cervepar and Coca-Cola. Tail.
RECORD
Since each of the IPS awards corresponds to the company Juan Gerardo Lezcano Bernis for the same service, none of their prices are presented with the same amounts. The first award, in 2016, had a maximum price of G. 3,000,000,000; the second, from 2017, was G. 1,600,000,000; the third, from 2019, was G. 4,000,000,000 and the last corresponds to the current award.
Three of the awards made to Juan Gerardo Lezcano Bernis carry a note of observation by the National Directorate of Public Procurement (DNCP), in one of them it is detailed that the convener does not accept and decides to deviate from the recommendation made by the committee, decision not recommended by the aforementioned Directorate.
