The Government confirmed that it will give intervention to the National Competition Commissionafter it was known that there was a single offer for the tender of the Paraná-Paraguay Hydrovia.
The bidder in question is the Belgian company Dredging Environmental and Marine Engineering NV (Deme)which had filed a series of complaints against the bidding sheet.
This was confirmed at a press conference the presidential spokesman Manuel Adorni, who affirmed that the Government He was in charge of making a “Transparent and competitive tender that guarantees the best service for Argentine producers.”
In turn, the spokesman reported that from the beginning it was clarified that “If there was a single offeror the tender would be discharged.”
“During the procedure, policy sectors, media and business sectors made lobby in favor of their own interests and sued the government to lower the technical standards of the specifications only for their own benefit,” denounced Adorni.
The spokesman said that “Each of the challenges received by the potential bidders was answered in a detailed way by the national state“, While he said that Justice validated the government’s arguments three times, and there were no irregularities “In the selection procedure or in bidding documentation.”
Thus, the spokesman said that “he can” have careful “to have received a single offer” despite having more than 11 companies registered to participatehaving received formal consultations and having informal knowledge that some companies They were already preparing their bidding documentation to compete“In addition, he emphasized that Deme, the only bidder, “The company that dealt with the process with complaints about an alleged lack of transparency that was not such.”
So, announced: “The National State decided to give immediate intervention to the National Commission for the Defense of Competition to investigate the possible pressure by the only offeror, to me, on the remaining companies or the existence of an alleged illegal association to the detriment of the National State and the producers Argentines “.
Adorni said the government “It will be relentless before Any attempt to manipulate the results and also to bring to criminal justice to those responsible for wanting to defraud the Argentine people. “
Executive Director of the National Agency for Ports and Navigation: “We maintain commitment to Argentine producers”
The spokesperson gave the executive director of the National Agency for Ports and Navigation, Iñaki Arreseygor, who argued that they will move on “Following the president’s order to advance in the bidding process of the National State.”
“In this aspect We are not warm like the government of Alberto Fernández And we maintain commitment to Argentine producers to modernize the trunk navigable route, “the official chicaneó.
Finally, he insisted: “We are going to investigate and pursue with all the weight of the law those involved in this attempt of bidding sabotage”, and concluded: “Once this process is over from the agency We are going to work on the new sheets immediately. “
Source: Ambito
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