The Comptroller’s Office warned that the Peruvian Corporation of Airports and Commercial Aviation Limited Company (Corpac SA) acquired the Automatic Dependent Surveillance System (ADS-B), which was intended to strengthen air surveillance in the country, however, five years later, it is not operational.
According to the report, whose evaluation covers the period from May 23, 2018 to January 8, 2024, Corpac SA included in the contract called “Upgrading of the Secondary Radar Network” the incorporation of the functionality of said system as an accessory to said secondary radars, thereby favoring an international supplier that holds the intellectual property of the MSSR-S secondary radars.
The control commission found that it was feasible to implement the ADS-B functionality independently or as a complement in another contract, after planning the implementation of ADS-B technology in the Peruvian State, obtaining the respective authorizations and preparing a plan for putting said system into service.
The auditors’ investigation determined that there are 29 supplier companies and 45 products worldwide with ADS-B functionality.
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It should be noted that on December 13, 2018, the contract for Direct Contracting by a sole supplier was awarded, and on December 26 of that year the main contract was signed for more than US$8.7 million, having determined that the recorded cost of the goods required for the implementation of the ADS-B functionality, which was integrated into the secondary radars, corresponds to an amount of just over S/3.4 million.
RESPONSIBILITY
The Comptroller’s Office indicated that four Corpac officials are presumed criminally responsible after having been found to have unduly favored a private supplier who was awarded the contract.
The report from the oversight body recommends that the Specialized Public Prosecutor’s Office for Corruption Crimes initiate the appropriate criminal proceedings against the officials and employees involved in the irregularities identified by the oversight committee.
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