The Nationwide Electrification Institute (Inde) maintains beneath investigation a collection of technology tasks that had been awarded over the past authorities, as a result of they didn’t absolutely adjust to the necessities established within the bidding guidelines, however had been nonetheless approved.
Considered one of these is the repowering of the Santa María hydroelectric plant, positioned within the municipality of Zunil, Quetzaltenango, awarded in July 2023 for Q196.1 million to Óscar Augusto Hidalgo Ponce, proprietor of the corporate Alfa Constructores, in response to the Guatecompras system.
On the location of the Nationwide Public Funding System (SNIP), the technical opinion of the mission seems and of 12 necessities, one seems in crimson, in relation to compliance with technical standards. The newest analysis date was April 30, 2024.
Primarily based on the technical evaluation of the documentation formally introduced by the general public funding entity (EPI), the Secretariat of Planning and Programming of the Presidency (Segeplán) signifies on that website that a number of necessities have to be reviewed and issued a technical opinion pending, requesting that numerous observations be resolved earlier than persevering with with the method.
Amongst these, justify the upward variation of the quantity requested within the 2024 interval of Q196.1 million, because the quantity requested and permitted in 2022 was Q106.2 million, which represents a distinction of Q89.9 million, that’s, nearly a 85% enhance in mission price.
“Earlier than finishing up any sort of economic operation that’s associated to the mission, it is strongly recommended to confirm that it doesn’t contravene the provisions of the Natural Price range Legislation and its Rules, the Annual Price range Legislation and the State Contracting Legislation and its Rules, in pressure for the corresponding fiscal yr, since it’s the strict duty of the proposing EPI for any sort of administration it carries out,” is added in Segeplan’s observations on the aforementioned website.
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One other mission is the Building of Guacalate Photovoltaic Programs (the place the entity’s leisure park services are positioned), within the municipality of Escuintla.
This was awarded for Q116.9 million to Samuel Porfirio Ochoa de León, proprietor of the business firm Constructora Ochoa López, in response to data in the identical buying system.
Different tasks beneath investigation are: one to repower the Los Esclavos hydroelectric plant (positioned in Santa Rosa) and two different photo voltaic tasks, one to put in photo voltaic panels within the Inde central constructing in zone 9 of the capital, and one other in Alta Verapaz, which consists of particular person residential panels (some delays and mission high quality are being verified).
They’re nonetheless legitimate
Regardless of the above, the present common supervisor of Inde, Luis Martínez, stated that the tasks usually are not paralyzed, suspended or canceled, however are beneath investigation, particularly people who seek advice from the repowering of producing crops, since there are delays within the anticipated outcomes, although the businesses had been contracted in 2022 and 2023.
As well as, there have been issues with the deliveries of photo voltaic panels on the dates and throughout the deadlines that had been contracted, in response to audits carried out.
The official emphasised that every case is being analyzed as a result of “it isn’t the identical to let the mission proceed whether it is poorly deliberate. In a repowering mission, if one thing goes flawed, like a pipe or one thing technical, you must test and speak to the contractor. And if there are delays, it have to be verified if the occasions have already been met.”
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