A new monitoring report Comptroller General of the Republic revealed that during the last purchase process of fertilizers on the part of Agro Rural there was no adequate evaluation of the applicant companies in the tender.
According to the document, the lack of uniformity was evidenced, by the purchasing team, in the application of criteria regarding the evaluation of the offers presented by the bidders.
It is about the presentation of the financial statements for periods less than the last 3 years required and the conditioning in the term of delivery of urea to the receipt of the letter of credit, despite having established that it is the next business day of the notification of the order of buy.
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Also, it was detected differences in delivery time, despite having been set at 45 and 60 days for the first and second batch, respectively; failing to comply with the requirements established in the updated technical specifications.
Therefore, the control body emphasized that this situation “it would not guarantee the accuracy of the results of the process, and that it has been carried out with equal treatment and in a transparent manner”.
Therefore, it was decided to send the report to Rural Agriculture in order to adopt preventive and corrective actions that, within the framework of their powers and obligations, with the aim of ensuring the continuity of the process.
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Finally, the owner of Agro Rural must notify the Institutional Control Body, within a maximum period of 5 business days, of the preventive or corrective actions taken or to be taken with respect to the detected observations.
On July 20, the Comptroller’s Office had already detected irregularities in the third urea purchase process, which is in charge of Rural Agricultureand that would put the 2022-2023 agricultural campaign at risk.
On that occasion it was detected that for the international acquisition of fertilizers “They would not have considered conditions for the amortization of advances, presentation of the anti-corruption affidavit, other penalties and deadlines in the subscription and contractual execution phases”.
