Since mid-July, companies must submit their offers in open procedures, as is the case with smaller contracts.
The Department of Finance has organized a training session next Monday with the providers of the City for electronic submission of offers.
The City Council will abolish the role in all contracts from the middle of July.
In this way, all companies will interact with this administration in contracting procedures by electronic system, as is already happening with smaller contracts, ahead of the regulations that will impose this mandatory in April next year.
Thus, the electronic submission of tenders extends to all works contracts for an amount greater than € 50,000 or € 18,000 in the case of supplies and services.
Those of inferior amount are the smaller contracts that already are governed by this telematic system.
In this way, only natural persons can submit their bids on paper if they so decide, but from April 2018 can only submit them in electronic format.
The incorporation of these measures into municipal management aims to boost the concurrence of offers and guarantee the freedom of access to tenders, publicity and transparency in contracts, in order to ensure greater participation in these procedures.
Thus, each tenderer must present the corresponding offer from his PC with the saving of time and displacements that this entails and with all the guarantees normatively foreseen.
In this sense, the City Council has signed with Pixelware, a contract for the electronic management of procurement files and for electronic bidding.
Therefore, in order to facilitate the submission of bids to the bidders, a training session will be held next Monday, from 10:30 a.m. to 12 noon, in the Hall of Acts of the Annex Building to the Town Hall.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia