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The tender for the 10K project, which seeks create 10,000 digital centers in rural areas of the country and that is part of one of the largest initiatives of the Ministry of ICT, It has generated a strong controversy in recent days due to some complaints related to the process and the proponents.
Among them, last Tuesday, December 1, in the middle of the hearing for the award of the contract that has a value of 2.1 billion pesos, it was revealed that one of the legal advisers of the MinTIC, Camilo Ernesto Valencia Suescún, is also a lawyer for one of the bidders, Unión Temporal SES Inred.
The Valencia Suescún contract was signed with the Single Fund for Information Technology and Communications until December 31 of this year. Likewise, The W Radio revealed that the lawyer has had other contracts to provide services with the Communications Regulation Commission.
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Fact that was cataloged by the Red de Veedurías as a lack of “equal opportunities and transparency of the process” and the “principles of public procurement”. And that also generated that the ICT Minister, Karen Abudinen, and the Secretary General of the ICT Ministry, Adriana Meza, they were challenged and the nullity of everything that has been advanced in the process will be requested.
Likewise, these are not the only indications that the National Network of Citizen Oversight Services for the Common Good has made of the billionaire tender. In a letter that EL TIEMPO got to know, and which was sent to the MINTIC on November 25, a “citizen alert” was carried out.
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In this, the National Network of Oversight Offices indicated “it could be the case, Mrs. Minister, who There are firms that make up Temporary Unions that have participated in alleged processes of national and international corruption and that they could be the winners of this tender, a matter of extreme gravity for the country ”.
ICT Minister Karen Abudinen.
Courtesy Ministry of ICT
And they also pointed out that “The firm Energía Integral Andina SA, which forms the Unión Temporal Conexo TIC, is being the subject of a criminal and fiscal investigation for public procurement issues in the Uspec with the bids for electronic surveillance of inmates, it is also linked to the criminal investigation in Fonade for the irregular hiring in the Vive Digital programs precisely from the MinTIC itself and the relations of that company with former senator Bernardo ‘Ñoño’ Elías ” .
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MinTIC responds
After the different signs, Minister Abudinen assured that the challenge filed against her was rejected, so it is “confirmed that the bidding process has been absolutely transparent.”
Likewise, the Ministry indicated that “Camilo Ernesto Valencia Suecún, during the execution of the contract signed with the Ministry of ICT, did not have any participation in the structuring, evaluation of the process, or access to privileged information about this process, or any other.
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And they added that once it was known that Valencia Suecún was the attorney-in-fact for the proposer Unión Temporal SES Inred, the contract for the provision of services that it had with the MINICT was terminated.
Likewise, the Ministry informed that it will continue with the bidding process and that in the coming days, through the Secop platform, the new dates for the resumption of the contract award hearing.
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