Since last April 1, own assets and under the responsibility of the National Electoral Council (CNE) they are safeguarded against risks that may expose them until next year.
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Last April 27, The entity awarded, in a special regime process, the contracting of nine policies for the protection of assets of the parent company and the 24 provincial delegations, which have an insured value of $ 43.5 million.
“The policies of the general insurance program constitute a solution to the need to protect the institution against the occurrence of unforeseen events that may economically affect the institutional patrimony”, justified the entity to carry out the contract, when it was a few days before the end of the coverage period.
The insurance contracted against fire and all risks cover assets such as buildings, furniture and office equipment, electoral material, money, machinery, vehicles, electronic equipment and even 4 drones owned by the entity. (see graph).
Eduardo Franco Enriquez, financial administrative coordinator of the CNE, signed the contract award a Sucre Insurance, by $ 352.985,80. The state insurer was the only one invited to the process, “for reasons of convenience and technical and economic feasibility”, as indicated by the electoral body in the pre-contractual specifications published on the portal of Public Purchases.
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“The offer of Seguros Sucre is taken into consideration, which is related to the historical institutional rates, acceptance of all additional coverage requested in its quotation and the accident rate of the National Electoral Council “, mentions the organism.
EXPRESS consulted the CNE about the reasons that led to the ruling out common regime processes such as bidding, which give the opportunity to compete to several bidders and allow more convenient offers for a contracting entity. Until the closing of this article there was no response from the agency.
With this new contract, the CNE continues a contractual relationship with Sucre. In 2019, it also directly conferred a contract for $ 556,656.70, which had two term extensions.
The initial validity of these policies were from October 4, 2019 to October 3, 2020, But due to the lack of budgetary allocation last year to call a new contracting process, the CNE and the insurance company agreed to a 90-day extension, which ran from October 3, 2020 to January 1 of this year.
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In early 2021, the electoral body had the same resource allocation problems, for which it was forced to ask for a new 90-day extensions in the term of the insurance, which ended on April 1.
In a report prepared on March 21 on the administration of the insurance contracted to Seguros Sucre in 2019, the CNE notes that the movements of the policies for inclusions, exclusions and notification of claims presented to that insurer “were attended to and fully compensated.”
Throughout the 18 months of validity of these policies, the CNE reported 40 claims to the insurer that affected electronic equipment and vehicles (see subnote).
In this regard, the report, signed by three officials of the administrative direction of the organization, clarifies that “The payment of deductibles and the RASA (Automatic Restitution of Insured Amount) generated by the coverage of the damaged goods are still pending, which are still in the billing, repair and replacement status.”
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THE DETAIL
Process. The electoral body began the hiring process on March 23 and four days later awarded the contract.
Pending claims for claims
During the term of the contract that ended on April 1, The CNE reported to Seguros Sucre the occurrence of 28 accidents that affected various electronic equipment. For such events, the insurer gave the electoral entity compensation of $ 113.059,66, but “There are pending claims for coverage and payment of obligations due to administrative procedures of the insurer”, points out a report signed on March 11. There were also 12 vehicle accidents (mainly due to crashes), for which Sucre awarded compensation of $ 13.507,99, According to the document.
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