The tender turns out to be a very common administrative act at the request of the public administration from which a public body demands works, services, goods, among others, from the private sector of the economy.
Administrative procedure through which the public administration contracts services and goods in the private area
Normally, the announcement or order is made through an official bulletin that will provide details of the needs and demands; the fact that appears by this means will try to guarantee that all the private companies that can provide the good or service can know the tender and present themselves if they want to.
Seek transparency in the process through rigorous control of each proposal
The main mission is that the tender shines for its transparency and avoid, for example, corrupt maneuvers that affect public funds, something that unfortunately we must say is common in these procedures.
The tender is a process by which different responsible bodies act to determine who will be the creditor or person responsible for some type of work, service or action that has to do with the funds and institutions of what is known as the public sector. However, previously there has been an offer that can be made at the request of an auction or a public tender. The tender can be long and slow if several projects are presented for a work offer since each of them must be controlled and reviewed in a sensible and thorough way in order to choose the one that best suits the needs, the possibilities, and to the reality of each work in particular.
The tender is an act whose main objective is to find, in an adequate and serious manner, a person in charge of a service or benefit that is offered in the public sector.
In this way, the State (and also its ministries, institutions and public offices) is unable to choose for its own convenience this or that company or individual to carry out a specific job.
The tender therefore seeks to ensure honesty and transparency.
Thus, the tender also serves to limit that companies that are incapable or unsuitable for the job are put into operation for the particular convenience of the State.
The bidding process begins with the announcement.
The purpose of the announcement of the tender is to open the call to all the projects that want to present themselves to take charge of a job or action, for example, the laying of subway lines.
As this issue concerns the space and the public sector, the company that will be chosen as responsible for such action cannot be chosen informally but has to go through arduous control and selection work.
When the tender is announced, the budget to be assigned to the work is also announced and interested companies or individuals must present a detailed work project and budget that must then be corroborated by the appropriate entities.
It is very important that when choosing a company or project manager, in addition to the budget or its solvency, the skills and abilities of those who will carry out the work are taken into account.
Once a project is accepted, the contract is drawn up for a specified number of years in pursuit of what is foreseen in the project between the State and the contracted party.
The scourge of corruption
When addressing this issue, we cannot ignore the underlying problem of previously arranged bids, between the state and a company, an arrangement in which of course there is bribery since the company to win the bid without competition pays a bribe to an official or entity of the state, meanwhile, this official, in return, places the proposal in the first place.
Undoubtedly, tenders are a great fundraising box for corrupt public officials because in this way they get quick and easy money; they simulate the bidding process but the winner is already chosen, even many times other alternatives are not even presented but there is only one company that presents itself and is the one that wins, these cases make the arrangement more seer.
The field of public works is undoubtedly one of the most agglutinating cases of corruption.
Normally, it is always the same companies, in many cases friends of the governments of the day, which win the tender to do a work or public infrastructure, undoubtedly, it is one of the great legs of corruption of the states.
We must also say that a large part of that money that is collected by trout tenders is taken by officials to increase their personal living standards or the coffers of political parties to be able to face their electoral campaigns.
