2023-08-11 00:33:10
The purchase of the other batch of ambulances, the ICU type, was completed on March 25, 2022, when the director signed another contract with Turcios Medical Supply for 2.8 million dollars. How that decision was made following the offer had originally been rejected is something that cannot be known from minutes 4038 of that meeting, because that point is censored. What did become clear is that competition would be generated and 11 companies would be invited that, according to the market survey, might apply, and among them were that of Turcios and a Mexican company, Ambulancia Network.
In the end, the contract signed by Mónica Ayala and the legal representative of Turcios Medical Supply, Pedro Élmer Bonilla Estrada, specifies that each ambulance valued at 144 thousand 9 dollars and 58 cents will be a Peugeot/Ambulancia Network brand. That was the Mexican company that made the shipments, by land, from April 2022, to the San Bartolo customs, in Ilopango. And when the director made the delivery ceremony, the brand “Ambulancia Network” was visible on the front of the ambulances.
Omen fulfilled: ambulance stranded for a month and a half
The weeks passed and by June 2022, when President Bukele was serving three years in office, Turcios had somehow managed to overcome the technical objections to his offers and accumulated the subscription of three contracts for a total of more than 6 million dollars. . And on the 27th of that month, at the meeting of the board of directors, they voted in favor of declaring, once once more, the urgency to renew the ISSS vehicle fleet through the purchase of more than 100 vehicles of various types that would be used to transport personnel. or of goods. Thus, Social Security would open the door for Turcios to his juiciest contract with the institution. Minutes 4056 have the entire discussion censored, but agreement #2022-1204.JUN. posted on the Comprasal portal shows that they made a direct invitation to seven companies, including Turcios.
Direct contracting No. 4G22000017 originally intended to purchase 119 vehicles, including an SUV for management, with a total budget of 5,341,115 dollars and 49 cents.
The only offer to supply pickups, minibuses, trucks and an SUV was, once more, from Turcios Medical Supply. The discussion of this point in the session is partially censored, but it is possible to understand that it was objected once more and was excused for offering a brand that does not have an official distributor in El Salvador, and that in several of the models the prices were higher than those of the market
On July 25, 2022, the board of directors decided to award him the contract, amid objections. “Mr. Walter Ernesto Pineda Valdez asked what brand the LANTREK 4×4 double cab pickup is” offered by Turcios. Pineda Valdez represented the labor sector on the board of directors. The administrative deputy director replied: “Campos Romero replied that it is a Peugeot brand and those that say Urvan are a Nissan brand.”
The chart they were looking at raised many questions even for the council adviser, who noted a confusing mix of models, brands, and countries of origin. “Dr. Mario José Ayala Orantes, advisor to the Board of Directors, observed the tables that are being presented and has doubts regarding the brands and models of the vehicles, including the country of origin, because although it is true they point out that the URVAN the country of origin would be Japan, so when they detail the country of origin Guatemala, brand LANTREK or URVAN, FUSO FJ, CANTER, there are different models of vehicles but the brands do not correspond, he recommended that they review the table and detail the brands well so that the gentlemen of the board of directors approve this process in due form”.
The last line of page 59 of Minutes 4061 records the response given by Blanca Patricia Munguía, head of the Purchasing Department, and which also evidenced Turcios’ lack of experience in presenting the information in such disorder. “The engineer Munguía Molina stated that the information in this case is in accordance with the offer presented.”
There were those who questioned whether a mistake was being made when buying vehicles in Guatemala and brands like Peugeot, without distribution in El Salvador. Juan Carlos Martínez Castellanos, representative of the labor sector, as he did when they bought the first Fiat ambulances assembled in Mexico, questioned how the provision of spare parts and the factory guarantee would be resolved, if it would not be Social Security that would buy them directly from distributors in Guatemala, but an intermediary company. “Because five cents are not being invested in this fleet.” They were more than 5 million.
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