Since mid-June last year, the Investigative Unit of EL TIEMPO revealed serious alerts from the Attorney General’s Office regarding a million-dollar contract that was being advanced at Fiduprevisora for the supply of computers.
The contract was going to be awarded on June 29, at midnight, but the oversight body pointed out serious risks regarding financial indicators and market studies. Some of the key documents were not even published and meanwhile, several of its leaders left the entity.
The termination
And EL TIEMPO revealed two weeks ago that the committee in charge of the contract had responded to the Attorney General’s Office that everything was fine in the process. Furthermore, that an opinion from a renowned former magistrate recommended proceeding with the contracting.
However, Rosa Dory Chaparro, acting president of the entity, told EL TIEMPO that she and her team had also found irregularities in the process.
And now, this newspaper learned that Fiduprevisora has just prematurely terminated the process.
“The early termination of the contractual selection process corresponding to Open Invitation No. 004 of 2026, whose purpose was the supply of computer equipment under the Computer as a Service (CaaS) modality, has been decided. This decision is adopted as a result of the analysis of the warning issued by the Attorney General’s Office, as well as the internal review carried out by the Entity, with the purpose of preserving the principles of transparency, objective selection, equality among bidders, proper planning, and protection of public resources,” reads a statement issued by the entity.
And they add: “In official communication addressed to the oversight body, the acting president of Fiduprevisora, Rosa Dory Chaparro, stated that, as a result of the review carried out by the entity, aspects that required deeper evaluation before continuing with the selection process were also identified”.
Additionally, aspects were identified related to the legal omission of requiring the endorsement of an engineer with a valid professional license for a contract that includes engineering activities; deficiencies in the publicity of documents supporting the structuring of the process; the incorporation of weighting factors based on greater experience without a technical justification demonstrating their objective benefit for contract execution; and an evaluation criterion related to
the execution of contracts in at least 14 departments of the country, whose reasonableness and proportionality were not sufficiently justified.
“These situations evidenced risks for compliance with the principles of planning, transparency, publicity, equality, free competition, economy, responsibility, and objective selection,” assured Fiduprevisora.
The new process
The entity also assured that they will move forward in structuring a new contracting process that allows addressing the technological needs of Fiduprevisora.
And they referred to the opinion recommending proceeding with the process: “The Entity reiterates that the opinions issued by external contractors, including those who breached the contractual confidentiality obligation, among others, are not binding and, in no case, can replace, substitute, or displace the competence attributed to the entity or its legal representative”.
(Consult all articles from the Investigative Unit of EL TIEMPO here)
For her part, Rosa Dory Chaparro, head of the entity, assured that all decisions will continue to be made with absolute transparency, technical rigor, and strict adherence to the law: “It will be guaranteed that the warnings and recommendations made by oversight bodies will be analyzed and, when appropriate, necessary actions will be taken to protect public resources and safeguard the general interest”.
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