Claims by Roberto Rodriguez, spokesman for the elected President Danilo Medina, that the Government will not buy any goods or services without first having the money to pay cash and thus avoid future claims involving overvalued prices, caused a stir among suppliers of the state today.
A source close to this sector, with which the government maintains a multimillion-dollar debt accumulated, called into question the way the State will determine the cash purchases, without first paying off the debt.
Marchena stated that the Government will order purchases only when they have the money available for the payment, saving the State to pay the suppliers invoices in collusion with officials at overvalued rates.
The statements of Rodriguez Marchena, who is the only person so far that has issued opinions on various issues on behalf of the team of President-elect, were issued in the program Propuesta de la Noche.
They said another reason for concern among suppliers is that it was unofficially stated that there will be a review of accounts receivable, many of them for sums in the millions, because of the suspicion that many suppliers have not only overvalued bills, but In many cases the goods and services have not been delivered in full to the government agencies that order them.
Another subject of the plan that is to be imposed in the new government, always according to unofficial sources, a demand-related quality of goods and services offered to the State, and cited the cases of agencies that order goods and services in extreme higher demand such as Education and Health.
Cited about the case of Education, which has drawn attention because every year are made massive purchases of items such as desks, whose lifetime is very limited compared with similar items purchased by education centers and private schools.
He said that in the case of the health sector is targeted the procurement of medicines and equipment, as not all the area has supported the Promise effort to lower prices.
For the equipment it was said that there will be a "forensic audit" to determine the destination for hundreds of millions of pesos in goods ordered.