In the middle of the pandemic, the president of Petropar, Denis Lichi, who clings to the position, signed last December a contract to outsource the personnel of the oil company, for G. 36,600 million, one of the highest in recent years.
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January 04, 2021 – 01:00
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The president of Petropar, Denis Lichi, awarded on December 10 the tender for the “hiring of a specialized firm to support the management of temporary human resources” to the firm Dynamus Marketing Promocional SA (DYSA), represented by Rodolfo Fiegelist Nielsen and Francisco Limon. The amount of the contract, which was signed 5 days after the award date, is for no less than G. 36,600 million, one of the highest budgets that the state firm will allocate to increase the number of employees through outsourcing.
This contracting scheme (open contract modality) began in the state company during Horacio Cartes’s presidency and continues until now, with the difference that they currently allocate more resources. The last award dates from 2018, during the administration of Patricia Samudio, for a maximum amount of G. 24,255 million (also by way of the electronic auction).
Petropar has almost 1,000 employees, but apparently they do not provide enough for its operation and, in addition, they justify continuing with this scheme that at the time was even questioned by the Comptroller General of the Republic (CGR). Denis Lichi, who continues to hold on to the position after the scandal of the secret agreement with Texos Oil SRL, even hastened the signing of this outsourcing contract, according to official documents.
It is to “face business units”, they say
From the Communications Directorate of the state company, they reported that this type of bidding has been held in Petropar since 2016 and that to date three bidding processes have been completed. “In 2016 the company Dynamus Marketing Promocional SA was awarded, in 2018 the company Jobs SRL was awarded and in the month of December 2020; the bidding process was again awarded to Dynamus Marketing Promocional SA ”, reads in the letter that they sent to our newspaper.
It highlights that the oil company carries out this contract in order to “deal with several of its business units” which are: Petropar’s own service stations (5 own service stations; located in Villa Elisa, Ñu Guasu, FAP 1, Mauricio José Troche and San Juan Misiones, in addition to the sale of liquefied petroleum gas, production of absolute alcohol and commercialization of lubricants. However, they do not clarify the number of employees that will be hired for “business units”, since they are hired from according to “needs”.
Likewise, they highlighted that Petropar currently has 188 outsourced workers, including beach workers, service station administrators, head of service stations, shift managers of service stations, junior commercial personnel, senior commercial personnel and commercial representative.
At the same time, they justified that the state oil company is a commercial company and “due to the business units it develops” has a high mobility of personnel, especially beachgoers and service station personnel. “This is so that if there is a person who needs to be changed for any reason, their services can be dispensed with and suitable personnel can be hired for these jobs,” he adds.
Finally, they indicated that the “outsourcing” work modality is extremely useful, since these outsourced personnel are not part of the Petropar staff of officials and the company that won the tender is responsible for paying the salaries of the employees. themselves, as well as the benefits established in the labor legislation, as well as the severance payments, social security (IPS).
The press criticized at the time that this type of outsourced hiring is used to locate in Petropar “recommended” or “relatives” of the high command. However, Petropar says it continues to use it to serve its “business units.”
Clings to office
The head of Petropar, Denis Lichi, clings to the position after the scandal of the secret agreement he signed with the Argentine company Texos Oil SRL, to which they gave almost 7 million dollars to extinguish a legal case. After annulling this disputed pact, the case will be defined in a court. Texos Oil won a Petropar tender on December 10, 2009 for the supply of diesel, but later they decided to annul the award and Petropar argued that it did not want to sign a contract for US $ 68,000,000 with a company that had a capital of only 10,000 Argentine pesos. When the contract was not signed, the company sued the State (first in Argentina and later in the country).
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