SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, May 16. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The Canary Islands Coalition candidate for the Presidency of the Canary Islands, Fernando Clavijo, has criticized the fact that public administrations are intervening in certain professional sectors with direct assignments to public companies and that this practice called ‘domestic contracting’ is a form of unfair competition in the job.
“If the administration, with its public companies, supplants the professional activity of engineers, architects and other groups, in the end competition is reduced, but also the quality of the projects and works,” said Fernando Clavijo after a meeting of I work with the College of Architects of Tenerife, La Gomera and El Hierro.
In this area, the Coalition candidate transferred the commitment to avoid this practice, for which he blamed the Government of the Canary Islands: “It is yet another proof of their lack of management capacity.”
The meeting, which was also attended by the Canary Islands Coalition candidate for the Presidency of the Cabildo de Tenerife, Rosa Dávila, took place after seventeen professional associations signed a joint manifesto to defend free business competition in the face of the growing presence of public companies in the market of various economic sectors.
“We share the concern that it is the administration itself that becomes unfair competition for small and medium-sized companies on the islands,” said the candidate. For Fernando Clavijo, “this situation of helplessness of different professional groups is just another example of the lack of management in these four years of the Government of the Canary Islands in the face of the business risk situation that affects small companies.”
Between the Next Generation funds and the difficulties in contracting, explained Fernando Clavijo, “the administration, through some public companies, is supplanting with its own means what is the professional activity of engineers, architects and professionals from other groups”.
With this scenario, the candidate warned of a gradual process of “destruction of the productive fabric of the islands” and also of a loss of quality in public works because, Clavijo argued, “competition means that, in the end, all infrastructure that is planned or built much more competitive.
He also endorsed the protest of the Canary Islands Council of Colleges of Architects for “use and abuse” in the public administration of domestic contracting (in house providing). Professionals have already criticized the promotion by the Government of the Canary Islands of public companies to receive direct orders for works and services, and Fernando Clavijo shared the concern of the Official College of Architects of Tenerife, La Gomera and El Hierro.
“Now this government, in the legislature’s discount time, is considering issuing a decree precisely to promote this channel of direct contracting and for public administrations to supplant professionals from those small and medium-sized companies that make up our productive fabric,” said the leader. Canarian Coalition before what the sector considers a distortion of the free market.
“In Coalición we do not agree with this procedure because we believe that public administrations should not supplant professionals if it is not exceptional, but that a Cabildo, a large municipality or even the Government of the Canary Islands supplant that healthy competition that benefits us all It is a clear abuse,” said Fernando Clavijo.
