The Dominican Alliance Against Corruption (Adocco) is asking the rector of the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo (UASD) to sue those responsible for contracting the state university’s technology platform. Rector Mateo Aquino Febrillet says that the contract was already in place when he took office, but he requested an audit from the Chamber of Accounts and is awaiting the results.
Adocco said the UASD contracted the service for integrating the administrative, teaching and student areas’ computer systems but their objectives for the investment of US$16 million have not been achieved.
Julio Cesar de la Rosa Tiburcio, general coordinator of Adocco, said that a notice circulated by then-rector Roberto Reyna on 18 October 2007, said that the UASD’s new Integration Information Registration System would turn the university into one of the most modern in the region. The SIRI-UASD system is based on the SW Banner of SunGardHE.
Adocco says that Reyna ordered the disbursement of the full sum of the US$14 million loan when the contract had established that the disbursements would be made upon delivery. Tiburcio says this is evidence of an irregularity with the purpose of benefiting a company that was handpicked despite the university having received other more advantageous and less costly options.
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