Luanda - The Ministry of Finance (MINFIN) will suspend 15 companies for breaching contracts in the execution of works under the Integrated Intervention Plan in municipalities (PIIM), announced the deputy director general of the National Public Contracting Service (SNCP), Aldemiro Matoso.
These are companies that were assigned works and are paralyzed and beyond the deadline, with physical execution up to 30%, but financial execution between 80 and 100%.
“These situations of contractual non-compliance, at national level, in the vast majority, are linked to PIIM and those targeted are prevented from concluding new service contracts with the Angolan State, integrating the 'black list”, asserted, in statements to ANGOP, the deputy director of the SNPCP.
He clarified that the investigation process is continuous and the number of companies being blacklisted could increase according to the results of the 30 inquiries into 45 cases initiated.
The person responsible explained that, after the conclusion of the process by MINFIN, the offending companies will see their process transferred to the competent bodies (PGR, AGT and Court of Auditors), where it will be up to these bodies to apply due judicial, administrative, disciplinary and financial.
Aldemiro Matoso justified that, during the investigation of the processes, the contractors were consulted, but they did not present plausible reasons, for this reason the competent process was triggered, culminating in their inclusion in the list of companies with their NIF blocked and prevented from entering into contracts with the state.
On the black list, says the deputy director, the 15 companies will join the company “Luige Marque”, added in 2023.
For this reason, MINFIN is investigating the works at PIIM level and requests the collaboration of top managers to report situations of non-compliance and violation of public contracts, an act that completely constitutes the exemption of managers from the procedure.
The deputy director understands that it is necessary to discipline the national market and convey the idea to suppliers that, in case of contractual violations, the State will sanction because “at the end of the day, the people who lose are the people who do not see the solution to a given problem. sorted out'.
Speaking about Presidential Decree No. 213/13, on Public Contracting, Aldemiro Matoso understands that this diploma protects and stimulates national production, as well as specifying the administrative, financial and disciplinary responsibility of public managers of contracting entities.OPF/AC/DOJ
