Agro Rural will check urea supply offers from 22 international companies in the fourth purchase attempt

Agricultural Productive Rural Development Program (Agro Rural), attached to Ministry of Agrarian Development and Irrigation (Midagri) said that yesterday, October 15, the stage of evaluating proposals from 22 international companies, claiming the supply of 44,000 tons, began. urea for the agricultural campaign 2022-2023

Agriculture reported that as a result of the notarial deed, 22 finalists of the bidding out of 29 who applied for the competition held from October 10 to 14 last year were known through the award platform.

So run third phase new purchase process, a stage that will take place within four business days.

During the public event, representatives of the Multi-Sectoral Commission responsible for monitoring, coordinating and supporting ensuring compliance with the State of Emergency Ordinance 013-2022 regarding the provision of urea fertilizers carried out Midagri.

This commission also includes the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Tourism (Mintsetur), the Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF), the Ministry of Justice (Minyus), the Ministry of Production (Production) and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

fourth attempt

It is worth noting that this is the fourth urea procurement process organized by the sector this year, after the first three were unsuccessful due to administrative failures, complaints about shortcomings in the process, or recall of bidding companies.

As you remember, at the beginning of June Agriculture The first fertilizer procurement process was invalidated due to “non-compliance with the technical specifications requested from the bidding companies by the user area.” In the same time Controller warned of the risks, as the process did not provide adequate measures to guarantee the timely delivery of this key resource for agriculture.

June 11 Andrés Alencastre, who headed the Midagri, announced that the first batch of urea would arrive in the country before July 11. However, this was not carried out.

June 13, after the second call, the Brazilian company MF Fertilizers won a good pro buying fertilizer. It was found that the first batch of carbamide in the amount of 40 thousand tons enters the country within 35 days. That is, there will be bags of fertilizer in July, but this did not happen either.

Ten days later, on 23 June, this second tender was canceled due to warnings from the controller and MF Fertilizers stayed out of the process.

Almost two months later, namely in August, the third bidding process was interrupted after the Italian company Union Speed refuse to deal with the government. The company’s refusal forced the executive branch to invalidate the process.