{"id":505465,"date":"2026-04-22T18:29:03","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T22:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/inabie-pays-almost-double-for-rations-intended-for-employees-than-for-students\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T18:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T22:30:10","slug":"inabie-pays-almost-double-for-rations-intended-for-employees-than-for-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/inabie-pays-almost-double-for-rations-intended-for-employees-than-for-students\/","title":{"rendered":"INABIE pays almost double for rations intended for employees than for students"},"content":{"rendered":"<strong>Santo Domingo<\/strong>.- The National Institute of Student Welfare, INABIE, pays up to <strong>RD$182.90 per food ration for its employees<\/strong>, while the cost paid to suppliers for each school meal ration is between <strong>RD$90 and RD$100 pesos<\/strong>.\n\nIn <strong>2026<\/strong>, the institution awarded the company <strong>Mister Sandwich Comidas y M\u00e1s, S.R.L.<\/strong> a contract for <strong>RD$56.7 million pesos<\/strong> for the provision of lunches to its employees.\n\nThe agreement contemplates a total of <strong>310,500 rations<\/strong> over a period of one year, with a unit price of <strong>RD$155 pesos without ITBIS<\/strong>, equivalent to <strong>RD$182.90 with taxes included<\/strong>.\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><strong>You can also read: <a href=\"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/nacionales\/inabie-cancela-proceso-de-licitacion-para-adquisicion-de-gomitas-multivitaminicas\/\">INABIE cancels bidding process for the acquisition of multivitamin gummies | De \u00daltimo Minuto | Dominican Republic News<\/a><\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\nThis contract runs in parallel to the school feeding program, in which the institution itself contracts suppliers for the distribution of food to students in the public system at considerably lower prices.\n\nThe analysis was presented on the program <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9SYtYyv951k\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9SYtYyv951k\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Under the Spotlight<\/a><\/em>.\n\nThe case highlights how, within the same institution, food contracting schemes coexist with marked differences in the cost per unit, even in services involving high volumes of rations.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"9SYtYyv951k\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"EL ESTADO GAST\u00d3 RD$1,152 MILLONES EN ALMUERZOS - BAJO EL FOCO | 21 DE ABRIL 2026\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9SYtYyv951k?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santo Domingo.- The National Institute of Student Welfare, INABIE, pays up to RD$182.90 per food ration for its employees, while the cost paid to suppliers for each school meal ration is between RD$90 and RD$100 pesos. In 2026, the institution awarded the company Mister Sandwich Comidas y M\u00e1s, S.R.L. a contract for RD$56.7 million pesos [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133543,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-505465","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized"},"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","dum_api":{"author_name":"Carolina Alvarez","author_image":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c41b7d2513f99fce290b3781fa561c1b?s=96&d=mm&r=g","categories_name":["Uncategorized"],"featured_media_url":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/133543"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505465"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":505466,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505465\/revisions\/505466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}