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Santo Domingo. - The General Directorate of Public Procurement (DGCP) suspended ex officio the process of purchasing whistles with their whistle holders carried out by the General Directorate of Traffic and Ground Transportation Safety (DIGESETT), for an estimated amount of RD$5.6 million, after verifying the absence of the prior studies required by the regulations.
The procedure, identified with the number DIGESETT-CCC-CP-2025-0021 and directed exclusively to women-led SMEs, was convened on September 1st.
However, the preventive monitoring of the DGCP determined that the institution did not present the documentation that justifies the need for the purchase, the market analysis, or the reference costs.
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Through a press release, the governing body explained that the measure has a precautionary and corrective nature and seeks for the contracting entity to adjust its process to the current regulations and guarantee the principles of efficiency, transparency and publicity, thus protecting the rights and interests of the bidders and potential bidders.
The suspension was applied immediately in the SECP and formally notified to DIGESETT for the corresponding purposes.
Previous studies are a prerequisite for launching a procurement procedure and a tool to determine the real needs of an institution, the market value of the good, and the times in which it would be available.
Article 4 of the aforementioned regulation 416-23 defines preliminary studies as the set of investigations and analyses that support the need for the supplier selection procedure to be carried out and allows to define the object, its characteristics, the demand and supply in the market, the feasibility and the estimated budget of the good, service or work to be contracted, as well as any relevant information to satisfy the need in question.
