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- For Citizens, this is an extensive law, 347 articles, 53 Additional Provisions, 5 Transitory Provisions, 1 Repealing Provision and 16 Final Provisions, and will entail numerous changes with respect to the previous legislation for public sector contracting

- "We have well-founded reasons to believe that the City Council, with the traumatic political divorce of MC and PSOE, has not been able to take on this great transformation of the regulation of public procurement," the local spokesman of the orange training, Manuel Padín, has warned. for this reason has reported that "we have sent a letter to the Mayor's Office and the Department of Finance to ask for explanations and we are working to propose some actions"

Citizens have asked the Government of Cartagena for explanations to know if they are ready to adapt their activity to the new Law on Contracts of the Public Sector (LCSP), and has suggested that they initiate an internal and external training actions for the specialists to explain the profound changes that the officials, companies and citizens of Cartagena are approaching.

On November 9, 2017 the new Public Sector Contracts Law was published in the Official State Gazette with which the state regulation is adapted to the European directives on public procurement, this legislation entered into force yesterday, in general and introduces important modifications in the field of public procurement that "will significantly affect our City Council," warns the spokesman for Citizens in Cartagena, Manuel Padín.

According to Citizens, it is an extensive law, 347 articles, 53 Additional Provisions, 5 Transitory Provisions, 1 Repealing Provision and 16 Final Provisions, and will entail numerous changes with respect to the previous legislation for contracting in the public sector, among which , the changes in the award criteria, the intensification of competition, the increase in the participation of small and medium-sized companies, measures to combat fraud and corruption are also introduced, administrative procedures are reduced and simplified, an exhaustive regulation in the profile of the contracting party and the procedure for the appeal is modified substantially with respect to the controversies that may arise in relation to the actions related to the preparation and awarding of the contract.

Recruitment tables

In addition, orange training recalls that Article 326 professionalizes the recruitment tables, which are defined as a specialized technical assistance body.

The LCSP establishes that in the case of local entities it is allowed, but does not oblige, the political positions to be part of the Contracting Committee, but they can not represent more than a third of the total members of the same.

The personnel that have participated in the drafting of the technical documentation of the contract will not be able to form part of the Hiring Tables.

According to Manuel Padín, "yesterday we learned that the Governing Board has modified the configuration of the contracting tables, and some aspects, but it is not just that, so we consider it necessary to call a conference in order to train inform the technicians and the entire Corporation so that the application of this law is as correct as possible. "

"Many Spanish municipalities have already made several training actions with specialists to all the technical staff of the City, we have to assume that this adaptation will be difficult and we must put the batteries in this regard, but in Cartagena, with the scandalous political divorce of MC and PSOE have forgotten to do something like that. "

The Municipal Citizens Group has "well-founded reasons to believe that the City Council has not been able to assume this great transformation of the regulation of public procurement," said the local spokesman of the orange training, Manuel Padín, who for this reason has reported that " we are going to send a letter to the Mayor's Office and the Department of the Treasury to show us the measures that are being carried out for the implementation of the new regulations "

"If we do not get an answer or it does not satisfy us, we will take to the next full plenary a battery of questions and perhaps a proposal to resolve this issue, such as the creation of a specific working group with the participation of both political groups and technical managers. of the City Council, and training courses with experts to analyze the necessary actions to implement in our City Hall the requirements established by the new Contracts Law.

Source: Ciudadanos Cartagena