He Tacoronte City Hall posted this week on the Public Sector Bidding Platformwhich centralizes public administration contracts throughout the Spainthe call for bidding for the contract for conducting an audit on the current state of the public lighting service of the municipality. This initiative, recently announced in a plenary session of the Corporation by the Councilor for Works and Services, Antonio Gil Goya (NC)seeks to clarify “the real state of this public service, which has been going on for more than a decade since it was awarded without proper maintenance or replacement”.
Gil Goya advances that the audit will be available “three months after its award”, which will allow the municipal Corporation to “convene a new contest for the public lighting service, whose validity is about to expire and, therefore, we must consult with the municipal legal services the establishment of an extension, of no more than one year”. This audit also It will serve so that the future contest can be called “under conditions that include all the necessary elements with which the new company can provide it with all the guarantees”.
“It is about knowing what we really have and what we need to get out of the current precariousness”
The acting mayor of the Works and Services area points out that “now we will be able to form a list of conditions that offers us all the guarantees, both to the Tacoronte City Hall, as well as the companies that present themselves”. In his opinion, “this audit will allow us to know aspects as simple as knowing the real number of luminaires that there are currently, their status or also knowing how many are necessary. In addition, we will have a real x-ray of the pipes, installations, wiring, the state of the material and the deficiencies ».
Gil Goya explained that the company that wins this new contest, “will know that it must incorporate into its proposal aspects that until now were not taken into account, so they will have to reflect the necessary accounts to add the streets that still do not have public lighting, the aspects related to repair and replacement, as well as the parallel elements that are linked to this type of action, such as clearing brush or digging. Aspects not contemplated in the contract that was signed in the past mandate, which has contributed to the deterioration of the facilities and the deficient provision of the service, as well as the establishment of parallel contracts for its realization.” For Gil Goya, “it is about knowing what we have and what we need, to get out of the precarious situation in which we find ourselves.”
