The Civil Guard has detected irregularities in the contracts that Red.es awarded to businessman Barrabés. According to the report, scores and evaluation criteria were modified to favor his bids. For citizens, this reveals a possible arbitrary management of public money, where private interest was prioritized over seeking the most efficient option for everyone.
How the manipulation of technical criteria affects public procurement 🔍
In bidding processes, evaluation criteria define which offer is the most advantageous. If scores are altered arbitrarily, fair competition is broken. This means that, instead of selecting the best technical or economic proposal, a specific supplier can be favored. In the case of Red.es, the modification of these technical parameters would have benefited Barrabés, distorting the principle of transparency in public procurement.
The art of adding points where there are none 🎲
It seems that at Red.es they had a special calculator. If a bid did not reach the cut-off score, the exam could always be changed. It is like playing Parcheesi and moving your piece to the finish line while others roll the dice. The curious thing is that, for citizens, the result is the same: everyone's money goes down a drain of flexible criteria and elastic scores.