Participacion Ciudadana, the civic society group, has again publicly requested that Attorney General Jean Alain Rodriguez investigate irregularities committed by the engineering division of the Presidency (OISOE) of the renovations at the Dr. Dario Contreras Trauma Hospital. Participacion Ciudadana says they initially made their request three years ago.
They expressed hope that the case be investigated so as not to leave impugn a case of administrative corruption and violation of Law 340-06 on government procurement, irregularities that had been documented by the government itself. Participación Ciudadana says that Resolution 91/2015 dated 2 October 2015 issued by the Procurement Agency (Direccion General de Contrataciones Publicas) found evidence of serious irregularities and corruption by the Office of Supervisory Engineers of Public Works (OISOE) in the contracting of Consorcio Luxor for the remodeling of the hospital’s interior and exterior and the equipping of the teaching hospital. Among the supposed irregularities was that the tender for the repairs was categorized as “emergency renovations”, which according to Participacion Ciudadana is in violation of the law and an increase of 100% of the cost originally contracted.
13 December 2018
