Appeals filed against annulment of VIP health insurance award by Ministry of Economy and Finance and SD Health Consortium

The DNCP, through Resolution No. 3186/23, dated August 31, gave rise to the protest promoted by the firm Santa Clara SA, and annulled, for the second consecutive time, the award of VIP insurance to the Salud SD Consortium, carried out after the revaluation carried out in the month of April.

The control body ordered the Ministry of Economy take the actions back to the stage of evaluation of the offers and recommended the modification of the composition of the evaluation committee, in order to avoid new challenges motivated by a deficient analysis of the offers and granted a period of 20 calendar days to report on the results.

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The MEF presented the reconsideration appeal on Friday the 8th of this month and so did the SD Health Consortium, so the DNCP ordered the opening and appointed lawyer Idilio Mieres as the official in charge of reviewing the appealed resolution.

Contracting, in addition, recommended to the Ministry of Economy that as a measure of administrative prudence, suspend the continuity of the allocation of vip medical insuranceuntil the proposed reconsideration is resolved.

Award was made in January

The first award was made by the then Ministry of Finance, now Economy, in the month of January for an amount of G. 61,972 million (US$ 8.5 million) and the service came into effect on February 14, but more than seven months later the process remains unresolved.

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Before the Public Procurement decision, the Comptroller General of the Republic (CGR) had also ratified its opinion issued in the month of May, on the award of VIP medical insurance.

The control body recommended the cancellation of the tender carried out by the tax portfolio because the questioned facts were not distorted, regarding the fact that the inconsistencies in the specifications and conditions “could be an indication of direction of the contracting.”