Fertilizers: Agro Rural has not yet canceled the purchase of carbamide, despite complaints

Last Wednesday, the head of the Ministry of Agrarian Development and Irrigation (Midagri), Andres Alencastre, announced that the purchase of fertilizers from MF Fertilizadores by the company Agro-ruralafter reporting violations.

The report of the Comptroller General of the Republic warned that the company that received the approval of the process, MF Fertilizer, did not fulfill the conditions set for participation in the tender and did not provide delivery.
urea over the suggested 35 day period.

After that, Minister Alencastre assured that the purchase would be canceled and a new purchase process would begin on July 25, with the fertilizer expected to be available on August 4. Nonetheless, Agriculture this still does not cancel the second purchase process.

Carlos Ortiz, a member of the negotiating committee for fertilizer contracts, indicated to the RPP that the issuance of the invalidation report has not yet been finalized.

In addition, Ortiz accused the minister Andres Alencastre about committing an abuse of power to “put forward an opinion”.

“You have to ask the minister why he is interested in canceling it, because he should have waited to raise the remarks. The minister abused his authority to cancel because he had to use the channels,” he told RPP.

Despite allegations of wrongdoing, which also include an audio recording showing the payment of a bribe, Ortiz indicated that the process nullity A purchase must go through a series of steps to materialize.

“The controller sends a report where there are comments, then they give until June 27 to raise the comments. We have already submitted the report, now the Controller must weigh it through the OKI and see if it has been raised [las observaciones]”, held.

Ortiz adds that in case the observations were not made, the chapter Midagri could formally request an annulment through the executive director.