No fruit, no protein, no bread or even milk: More than 141,000 children from Magdalena are the only children in the entire country who do not have access to the School Nutrition Programme. (PAE) so far this year.
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Two failed recruitment processes and a signal crossing are behind the cases affecting children from 643 schools in this department. The situation is so critical that the Attorney General’s Office is advancing preventive surveillance of the process, which exceeds 64,692 million pesos.
EL TIEMPO investigated the case and found that the Magdalena government was ready to enter into contracts with suppliers in January. However, the contract processes he undertook were unsuccessful.
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Firstly, The public tender opened on January 13, 2022 was declared invalid. Second, an abbreviated election opened on March 29 and was unsuccessful.
According to the Attorney General’s Office, which has organized seven working groups with the government to determine what’s going on in the PAE – The specifications of both processes claimed constraints that created a large number of contractors and lack of bids.
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What is concrete is that another route was chosen, with no provisions and an increasing abandonment rate.
Governor Carlos Caicedo’s administration has directed 46,000 million pesos in royalties with the Caribbean Regional Ocad for the implementation of PAE in a scenario where 18,682 million pesos is additional equity..
However, the process is full of obstacles that affect children as well. For example, ICBF and RAP Caribe, which had no competition, were recommended as operators.
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and yet The feasibility of the project was obtained by the Ministry of Education, Ocad voted negatively, citing “disproportionate increases in ration from 2022 to 2022” and lack of justification in the days of service provision for indigenous communities”.
To fix the player issue, The governor’s office appealed, but Jan said no, arguing that the PAE had performed poorly in its execution in 2021.
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The case reached the Santa Marta Administrative Court, where Ocad Caribe was ordered to order the government to run the program.In parallel, a clear statement of urgency began to be set to deliver the millionaire contract directly.
But after a few warnings from the Attorney General’s Office, Caicedo had to choose a new tender, which was opened on July 6, although the guardianship decision was on May 18.
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According to the program, The operator will be announced on August 29 and will receive 32,561 million pesos, which they will power for just 66 days to run the PAE. Who is responsible for children for what they stop receiving?
EL TIEMPO called Governor Caicedo and they answered on his behalf from the Magdalena Governorate.
There, they began by warning that bidders who resorted to unsuccessful processes, such as the shortened selection process, did not meet the requirement.s and other PAE regions had sanctions for noncompliance.
Moreover They denied that the specifications had restrictions that caused several bidders to advertise themselves.“This is wrong. It is designed according to legal norms, requirements of technical-administrative directives and Law 80,” said Eder Ojeda, head of the PAE office.
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Y, about delays in the new tender, only in May, advertising ports If the resources’ execution time has expired, they have handed over the execution.
In fact, Ojeda blames Ocad for the delays: “PAE did not deliver its resources to us on time (…) It took a year and three months to approve the project, which was filed in February 2021.”.
But it goes even further. He speaks of the so-called “systematic blockade” of Ocad (where a seat of Government is located), which initially chose ICBF and RAP Caribe as operators, knowing they were not competent.. According to the president, it was only when he was placed under guardianship that Jan had to hand over the execution of the program to him. And he says he asked for control organisms to intervene before he could get a response.
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Finally, He pointed out that the declaration was recommended by the Provincial Board of Education, clearly regarding the attempt to recruit through urgency. (Jude) and approved by the Social Policy Council, among other examples.
But Acknowledging that the decision to hold a new tender was taken after the Office of the Chief Prosecutor objected, he stated that the declaration of the state of emergency did not guarantee multiple bidders. The government blames the new delay.
TIME has been contacted Vicente Blel, the Bolivarian governor and president of Ocad, said in response to Governor Caicedo’s words that departments and municipalities enjoy legal autonomy in the face of contracting with the PAE.
In addition It is the direct responsibility of each governor or mayor to respond within the time limits prescribed by law, through the funding sources of each regional entity..
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“At Bolivar we managed to guarantee school meals to more than 110,000 children in 44 municipalities by 2023 directly through copyrights,” the governor assured.
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And it continued As head of Ocad, he has subscribed to the performance of certain functions with full willingness to accompany the Caribbean departments..
The Attorney General’s investigation is progressing.
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