A failed revival. That is what thousands of micro, small and medium-sized manufacturing companies in Lima and various regions would be experiencing, since the lack of access to the public purchases, where they could operate as suppliers, is leading them to lose opportunities for more than S/600 million. This was warned by the Peruvian SME Association.
More than 20 businessmen from the capital and from eight regions such as Arequipa, Huánuco, La Libertad, Piura and Puno, denounced according to the union that “the Government of President Pedro Castillo it’s bankrupting them.”
As an example, only the opportunities for the project to acquire blankets and coat kits to combat the cold represented an opportunity greater than S/200 million, explained the President of the Peruvian SME Association, Ana María Choquehuanca.
Lack of support from ministries
“It is urgent that the ministries get their act together so that the budgets assigned to them are not returned at the end of the year, that their execution contributes and responds to the need for SMEs to reactivate themselves,” Choquehuanca asserted.
According to businessmen, the concern is that 13 ministries and the Presidency of the Council of Ministers (PCM) they have not made purchases from mypeswhile only five have chosen to make purchases from these businesses that require so much momentum for their reactivation.
In that context, the SME Association He highlighted that there are other opportunities for state purchases for these companies, such as one for purchases of more than S/160 million in wooden school furniture nationwide, another of S/150 million for Police uniforms, and another of S/145 million for the manufacture of uniforms and other goods for the Armed Forces.
