The national Public Procurement service (SNCP) informed that, for the proper execution of the General State budget for the 2024 financial year, all budgetary units (Uo) that do not publish their annual contracting plans (PAC) may have their expenses blocked
The SNCP made adjustments to its process of preparing and publishing PACs to ensure the planning and management of public procurement procedures and contracts to be renewed, extended or continued.
Therefore, the SNCP dispenses with its intervention for the purposes of verifying the compliance or otherwise of the PAC and assigns to public contracting entities (EPC) or budgeted units the duty to publish their respective PACs on the Ministry of Finance portal, within 15 days. useful, counting from the date of publication of the law approving the OGE.
The institution that oversees public contracting reinforces, however, that PACs must be signed by the highest body of the EPC and sent to the SNCP for publication. “In case of non-compliance with the above, the SNCP will notify the Internal Control Unit of the Ministry of Finance to block EPC/UO expenditure”, he warns.
In the document to which OPAÍS had access, the EPC/UO is also informed that they cannot trigger procedures that are not provided for in the respective PAC. However, if new contracting needs arise during execution, they must update them, including the new procedures, and publish them on the Ministry’s website.