MADRID, Spain.- The regime Nicaraguan Daniel Ortega will pay 400,000 córdobas (more than 11,000 dollars) of funds from the State of Nicaragua to the official Cuban media Latin Pressto carry out “economic, social and political analyses” addressed to the Presidency of the Republic.
“The Cuban news agency Latin Press was favored in Nicaragua with a contract of more than 400,000 córdobas to provide information analysis services to the Presidency of the Republic, in charge of the dictator Daniel Ortega,” the Nicaraguan media reported this Wednesday. Office 505.
According to documents to which he accessed Office 505, Latin Press won a public tender for the Information Bulletin Service for the Presidency of the Republic, against the Nicaraguan printers Editora Gráfica SA and OK Impresa y Publicidad SA
The call for tenders was published on November 22, 2022 in the Electronic Administrative Contracting System (Siscae).
A specialist in State contracting procedures, who asked to remain anonymous, explained that the contracting of services is a normal and lawful procedure in the State, but that “the problem arises when there are elements that point to signs of corruption, lack of transparency, as in this case, that they have chosen suppliers who do not even provide the service”.
The expert makes the clarification since the terms to win the tender required parameters related to the business scope of the applicant for the newsletter service provider, as well as guarantees of efficiency, effectiveness and quality; and the two national companies “did not meet the profile of the defendant service provider.”
These printers are dedicated to the production of key chains, pens, mugs, screen printing, T-shirt embroidery, among others, but not to the production of news, the information specifies.
Therefore, “the result could not be other than to declare the Latin American Information Agency the winner Latin Press”, points out the specialist.
“The simple selection of unqualified bidders is enough to suspect that they are ghost bidders, that there is collusion behind them,” he added.
The agreement will enter into force on January 2, 2023 and Latin Press will offer this service for one year, for a monthly payment of $929.43, with the possibility of extending the contract to a longer term.
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