Electronic bidding is preventing businesses from winning contracts, says Spanish cleaning association

19th of June 2018
Electronic bidding is preventing businesses from winning contracts, says Spanish cleaning association

In Spain, the contract cleaning association Aspel has claimed that the use of electronic bidding by national airport operator AENA to obtain new contracts is preventing top businesses from tendering for contracts in Spanish airports.

President Juan Díez de los Ríos says this form of negotiating contracts goes against EU directives and contravenes the Public Sector Contracts Act. He said: "AENA is ignoring recommendations from Brussels and the limits they have put in place on this type of bidding."

It is estimated AENA has managed to reduce its supplier costs by 20 per cent thanks to electronic bidding, a procedure whose main objective, according to the president of Aspel "is to reduce the price as much as possible, therefore leading to there being fewer businesses participating in the majority of bidding opportunities".

Díez de los Ríos stressed that "electronic bidding has reduced the number of bidders to a minimum, and that is proof the prices are not attractive enough".

He added: "In the latest round of bidding, only two or three businesses took part, and a few of the invitations to tender did not result in any contract, as in the case of the Gran Canaria and Lanzarote airports. Where there used to be eight or 10 businesses there is now one, or even none."

 

 

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