The president of Petropar awarded the call for “temporary human resource management”. This contract will free up a budget to include approximately 500 employees, all in the midst of his electoral campaign for the Governorate of Cordillera.
Source: The Nation
In the last week of July, the president of Petróleos Paraguayos (Petropar), Denis Lichi, finally consummated the award of the disputed call for the outsourcing of the civil servant hiring service. The awarded company is Dynamus Marketing Promotional SA (DYSA).
According to Resolution No. 633/22, the contract is open modality and commits about G. 48,600 million, although according to an observation to the process of the National Directorate of Public Procurement (DNCP), “the amount indicated in the multi-year document does not cover the estimated total amount.
Wiliam Wilka, director of the Petropar Cabinet, told Nación Media that the current contract with Dynamus stipulates the temporary hiring of approximately 300 people, and that with this last call already awarded, the objective is to reach up to 500 people.
It should be noted that the current contract signed in 2020 between the firm Dynamus and the state oil company is valid until June 2023, and that of the G. 36,600 million of the open contract, some G. 6,000 million are still available. However, this new award was already closed when a significant amount for the outsourcing service still remained to be executed.
In the bidding terms and conditions it is stated that Petropar will henceforth require operators for the call center, beachgoers, service station shift managers, technicians, administrative and also operational personnel.
This process apparently seeks to guarantee until December, in the midst of the internal ones, the monetary flow to be allocated to the temporary hiring of personnel that provide services to the oil company.
An analysis carried out by the Nation Media Research Team details that the referential prices of the file estimate a maximum cost of G. 85,733 million, nearly double what was made up in the call. The contract has not yet been published on the DNCP portal.
In addition, not a minor fact is that the state company announced that “if necessary, the corresponding modifications will be requested, only if necessary.” But, meanwhile, the amount to be allocated to the outsourced hiring of personnel for the oil company is about US$7 million.
All of this occurs within the framework of the party elections in December where Lichi, who has the support of Vice President Hugo Velázquez, will bid to be the List 1 candidate for the Governorate of Cordillera.
CARING FOR MONKEYS
An analysis of the records of the Superior Court of Electoral Justice (TSJE) managed to reveal the exodus of more than 50 Petropar officials and outsourced personnel to the Cordillera voting districts. Quite suggestive given that Denis Lichi seeks to reach the Governor’s Office of said department.
The “monkeys” who made the leap are detailed in 30 direct employees of the oil company and 23 employees outsourced through Dynamus. The migrants to the Cordillera polling places came mostly from the Central department, mostly from the Villa Elisa district, followed by officials who live in Fernando de la Mora, Lambaré, Luque and Mario Roque Alonso.
Surprisingly, Lichi awards and uses the same provider of human resources management services, presumably with an eye on the next December 18.
MORE MONEY AT STAKE
In addition to this award from Petropar, Lichi keeps at the door committing more than G. 65,035 million in different bidding processes that, at least, are suggestive for the amounts, for the “needs” and for the time in which they occur.
One of the large contracts in the closing process is the hiring of cleaning services, where it is expected to spend up to G. 4,435 million, stipulating to use 54% more than what was budgeted in the last similar contract from a year and a half ago.
Also added are the tenders for advertising services for the “installation of corporate image” which has a budget of G. 10,000 million; and on renting printers it intends to spend another G. 1,500 million.
Finally, another of Petropar’s recent calls for the last month is for the acquisition of air tickets for G. 500 million.
