Since 2020, with the installation of a new government in charge of the President Luis Abinaderthe National Student Welfare Institute (Inabie) has had two directors who, according to Resolutions of the address of Public hiringthey have been under the magnifying glass of the authorities and have been affected by alleged irregularities in the tenders of tenders throughout their efforts.
The General Directorate of Public hiring He has issued Resolutions In the last three years that leave without effect, partially, awards and administrative acts in four bidding processes of the National Student Welfare Institute (Inabie).
Decisions, published in the portal of Public hiringrespond to formal claims for suppliers and ex officio investigations, and also include offers reevaluation orders, readjudication and publication of files, as well as sending Findings to control bodies and judicial persecution.
The accusations for alleged irregularities caused that in 2021 the then director of the Inabie, Cecilio Rodríguez Montásbe dismissed from his position when he was indicated by a bidding process that involved school lunch and his suppliers.
The Inabie and its tenders
The most recent case, dated August 11 of this year, corresponds to the process Inabie-CCC-LPN-2024-0012 for the School shoes purchase destined for public sector students.
Through resolution RIC-0106-2025, The contracting address annulled 25 awards within the procedure after detecting irregularities in the investigation.
The agency, consequently, ordered to reassess 11 offers and ordered to send the findings to the Ministry of Education, the Comptroller General of the Republic, the Chamber of Accounts and the Special Prosecutor’s Office for Persecution of Administrative Corruption (Pepca).
The measure did not mean the total cancellation of the process, but only affected the allocations observed, which will allow Inabie Correct and reassign the lots. However, the entity decided to cancel the aforementioned contracts.
In February of this year, Public hiring It issued Resolution RIC-0019-2025 on the process related to the hiring of the school lunch service for the period 2024-2026.
The decision ceased two technical evaluation acts (0136-2024 and 0194-2024) only in regards to the recurring company, happy Benjamín Rosario Guillen, SRL, and ordered to carry out a new evaluation of that offer, as well as publish in the electronic system of the electronic system of Public hiring Expert reports and reports of technical visits.
This action occurred after challenge of the company, who alleged alleged deficiencies in the evaluation of his proposal.
Older tenders
In 2023, another resolution of Public hiringthe RIC-101-2023 addressed the process Inabie-CCC-LPN-2021-0009 corresponding to the 2021-2022 School Food Program.
In this case, the institution annulled the administrative act with which the Inabie He responded to a challenge presented by an offeror, noting that the answer was insufficiently motivated and contained errors.
The entity ordered a new decision duly founded and Publish in the Institutional Portal the documents that had not been included in the public file.
Also in 2023, resolution RIC-134-2023 reviewed the school lunch process 2022-2023 in Santo Domingo province.
The control institution partially annulled the Awarding Act 0273-2022, exclusively in Relationship with certain lots and suppliersand ordered the Inabie Award according to law these segments, in addition to publishing in the portal the complete file of the procedure.
This decision sought Ranked detected errors in the allocation of contracts for these specific lots.
In all four cases, the DGCP made it clear that its Resolutions They do not imply the total cancellation of the bidding processes, but are part of a “Control exercise to correct irregularities and guarantee transparency. “
DGCP measures
Measures include from the Revaluation of technical offers and the readjudication of lots until the publication of missing information and sending findings to supervisory agencies.
In the case of school footwear, in addition, alerts were activated towards instances of control and justice, which could lead to administrative or criminal responsibility processes if irregularities are confirmed.
