Contraloría - Dictamen N° 58570 2016

La Contraloría dictamina que la DCCP debe aceptar cartas de recomendación de entidades privadas, aunque los cargos de los firmantes difieran formalmente de "gerentes generales", si son equivalentes y respaldadas por facturas, corrigiendo rechazos improcedentes.

• Complainants challenged the DCCP's rejection of their offers in a public tender for events and services, arguing that recommendation letters, essential for evaluation, were unfairly dismissed.
• The administrative bases of the public tender mandated recommendation letters to be signed by specific roles (e.g., public service admin chief, or private sector equivalent) and accompanied by an invoice.
• Dictamen N° 5.626/2014 established that recommendation letters must strictly adhere to the signatory requirements of the tender bases, especially for public administration clients.
• Dictamen N° 57.782/2014 clarified that the strictness of Dictamen N° 5.626 applied to public administration clients, differentiating its scope from recommendations issued by private entities.
• The Contraloría int...