Citizen Alternative has assured that the Arrecife City Council "intends to extend the contract with Lude until 25 years, against reports from the Government of the Canary Islands". This formation also affirms that the councilor Francisca Toledo has contracted "for 20,000 euros two reports" that the Ministry of Economy of the Government of the Canary Islands "already provided to the City Council, free of charge".
In this sense, it has indicated that on May 7, the Sports councilor signed a request for two contracts "to justify extending the contract to manage the municipal sports facilities of the Argana Pavilion and the Swimming Pool Pavilion, which the City Council has with the company Ludesport".
Citizen Alternative has been "surprised" by this signing of the contracts and has assured that on June 28, 2012, the mayor, Manuel Fajardo Feo, had already requested from the Advisory Board of Administrative Contracting, an body dependent on the Ministry of Economy of the Government of the Canary Islands, a report "for the same purpose, with the possibility of modifying the public service management contract awarded to Ludesport". This report, according to this party, was prepared "free of charge" by said advisory body.
Alternativa has insisted that the proposal presented by Fajardo Feo was based on the fact that this company "would carry out different works in the pavilions, and at the same time, the City Council would extend the contract until 25 years". And it is that Lude has always defended that it will not carry out these works until "there are guarantees of compensation for them" by the City Council, since it understands that "it is not its responsibility to execute them".
This request from Fajardo Feo was analyzed by the Contracting Board, which issued a report. According to this formation, the report states that "the intended modification is not legally viable, not only because it alters the essential conditions of the contract in the terms in which it was awarded, but also because the new services to be performed are not typical of a public service management contract, but of a contract of a different legal nature".
According to AC, the Contracting Board "goes into details, such as, that the extension to 25 years would contravene and invalidate the criteria on which the award to said company was based", for a period of eight years. In addition, it also warns that "the construction of new works or the expansion of the facilities are not contemplated in the object of the contract, and that in order to carry them out, the contract would have to be substantially modified, which would imply a substantial alteration of the award conditions".
"Ignoring the Government of the Canary Islands"
"In short, what the report prepared by the governing bodies of the Canary Islands is saying is that the intended alteration of the conditions with which the contract award was put out to tender, had the rest of the companies that presented at the time known, their offers would have been substantially different", said Alternativa Ciudadana.
For this reason, this formation wonders if the government group intends to extend this contract with Lude "until 25 years, ignoring the reports of the Government of the Canary Islands, and ordering, once again, external reports to justify themselves, and waste public money". "The best thing is for them to close the City Council, fire all the municipal staff and hire an external consultancy", this formation assured through a statement.
