NOW MURCIA requires that the City comply fully with the measures envisaged by the law referred to transparency in government procurement, including publication on the website of the Consistory of all contracts with the basic data that compose them, as well as the contracts expire during the current financial year and, on a quarterly basis, information on minor contracts.
The municipal formation take a motion for this purpose the next plenary session, as it believes that "society demands greater transparency of all public activity, especially of public expenditure and public procurement" and "the ideal would be that the City be proactive in transparency issues, but the least we must demand is that complies with the law. "
Councilman Luis Bermejo recalls that "the Law 19/2013, of December 9, Transparency, Access to Public Information and Good Governance, has a threefold purpose: to increase and strengthen transparency in public life, to recognize and ensure access to information, and establish good governance obligations to be met by public officials, as well as the legal consequences of its failure ".
The mayor stressed that "the entry into force occurred on December 10, 2014, with an important nuance for local entities and that have a maximum period of two years to adapt to the obligations contained in this Act".
Bermejo also stresses that "an essential part of the law advertising of public contracts, an aspect which is regulated in the same law," so that "the obligations of local authorities regarding the advertising of public contracts are complementary and in the case of, broader, that established by the Law on Public Sector "minor contracts.
The motion Murcia Now take the next plenary urges the local government to publish, as provided by law, on the website of the City all contracts with the basic data that compose them: object and duration;
amount of tender and award;
the procedure used for celebration;
instruments through which, if any, it has been published;
the number of tenderers in the procedure and the identity of the winning bidder and contract modifications.
Likewise, you are urged to be published on the web, at the beginning of each financial year and with sufficient visibility, the ratio of those contracts expire along the same, as well as the foreseeable procedure to be followed for future recruitment.
On the web it must also be published quarterly information on minor contracts referred to in the Transparency Act in the shortest possible time.
The motion provides, finally, that the Local Government published quarterly, in accordance with the law, statistical data on the percentage of budget volume of contracts awarded by each of the procedures provided for in the legislation of public sector contracts also covered by the Transparency Act.
Source: Ahora Murcia