SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Oct. 23 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The ‘III Conference on Responsible Public Procurement of the Canary Islands’ has already opened the registration period to participate in this meeting that will be held on November 6 and 7, at the Museum of Nature and Archeology (MUNA), for the first time in in-person format, which will be complemented with online participation.
Interested persons can register through the website of the Observatory of Responsible Public Procurement of the Canary Islands.
For two days, through presentations, round tables and workshops, issues related to Responsible Public Procurement (CPR), the reservation of contracts for social companies (insertion companies and special social initiative employment centers), the new recruitment routes or opportunities for diversification of activities in new employment niches, such as digitalization or environmental sustainability.
The conference will feature the participation of Concepción Campos Acuña, an expert in public management, who will speak about ‘Integrity as the axis of Responsible Public Procurement in the management of Next Generation EU Funds’; Jaime Gómez-Obregón, activist engineer in favor of political transparency in public sector contracting or Laura Melián, professor of Labor and Social Security Law at the ULL, who will address ‘Labor rights in responsible public contracting’, among other presentations.
One of the most notable presentations will be the results of the ‘I Situation Report on Responsible Public Procurement in the Canary Islands’, by the technical advisor of the CPR Observatory in the Canary Islands Samuel García, who will take stock of how Law 9 has been applied /2017 in this matter in the period 2018-2022, after its entry into force in March 2018.
ROUND TABLE
This presentation will be followed by a round table in which the lines that should be followed in the Canary Islands in the field of Responsible Public Procurement will be debated, which will feature the participation of the Common Deputy, Rafael Yanes; the general director of Heritage and Contracting of the Government of the Canary Islands, Juan Domingo Cabrera; the Secretary of the Board of the Public Procurement Advisory Board of the Government of the Canary Islands, Teresa Peiró; and the head of the Contracting Office of the Cabildo de Tenerife, Julia Martín, collects a note from the Anagos Network.
In addition to the presentations and round tables, two workshops have been scheduled in which the keys to effectively introducing special execution conditions in contracting documents will be addressed, led by Javier Mendoza, professor of Economics at the ULL and expert in Responsible Public Procurement and the effective way to participate in public tenders, directed by Juan Carlos García, lawyer specializing in public procurement and partner at the Melián Abogados firm.
This meeting is aimed at public administration personnel, social companies, students, private sector professionals and any person or entity that wishes to deepen compliance with Law 9/2017, on Public Sector Contracts, in its fourth additional provision, which requires reserving part of purchases and contracting for social companies and incorporating social and environmental criteria in public tenders.
The conferences are organized by the Observatory of Responsible Public Procurement of the Canary Islands, an initiative of the Anagos Network, supported by the Association of Integration Companies of the Canary Islands (ADEICAN) and the European Network to Fight Poverty and Social Exclusion of the Canary Islands ( EAPN), and which is financed by the Government of the Canary Islands, through the Ministry of Social Welfare, Equality, Youth, Children and Families.
