SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, December 26 (EUROPA PRESS) –
For the next four years, the City Council of Santa Cruz de Tenerife will have a framework agreement through which the maintenance and conservation service of public schools, buildings and City Hall offices will be covered in order to guarantee both ordinary and extraordinary maintenance. of municipal properties. The base tender budget exceeds 39 million euros.
The mayor, José Manuel Bermúdez, has pointed out that this is “one of the most important contracts of this mandate, not only because of its amount, which is close to 40 million, but also because of the importance of correct maintenance, both ordinary and extraordinary piece of municipal heritage in terms of schools and neighborhood association headquarters, but also UTS, or the Municipal Palace itself, and reaches more than 200 facilities.
“This formula will allow us to have a series of companies to turn to as maintenance services are needed. In the design of this tender, as a framework agreement for maintenance services, the essence of the activity is the provision of hand of work, materials, machinery and auxiliary means by the contractor to undertake ordinary maintenance and extraordinary maintenance actions, without the prior drafting of any technical project being necessary,” said the councilor of the area, Javier Rivero.
As Rivero detailed, “the intention of the administration is to assist the private initiative to provide materials, labor and equipment that are necessary to achieve the result of maintaining the aforementioned facilities in a perfect state of use and conservation, with a guarantee of compliance. of the current technical and legal regulations, and those that may be dictated in the future that will be automatically incorporated into the framework agreement”.
Once the framework agreement is approved at the last Government Meeting, it may be put out to tender and awarded under the conditions established in the specifications. Thus, according to the details of the budget, the ordinary maintenance of municipal schools is estimated at 3,448,403.24 euros, while that of municipal offices adds another 2,298,935.48 euros. This ordinary part of maintenance exceeds 5.7 million.
As far as extraordinary maintenance is concerned, the specifications establish a figure of 20,223,869.48 euros for schools, while for municipal offices it will be 13,482,579.64, interventions that would add up to 33,706,449.12 million. .
In this way, the contract will entail an estimated expense of just over 39 million, without it being necessary for that budget to be exhausted, since it is the amount that has been considered in the tender as sufficient to cover both ordinary maintenance and possible conditions that may arise. arise in schools and municipal offices in an unforeseen manner.
Through this framework agreement, it is intended to guarantee the functioning and full operability of all the facilities without any exclusion. In addition, a Quality Assurance System will be implemented as a guarantee for the service, as well as a comprehensive maintenance plan. To this end, a maintenance program will be established that allows all service facilities to be in optimal operating conditions, and a computer application will be installed for comprehensive maintenance management compatible with that available to the City Council.
The document also establishes that an immediate response must be given to emergencies, so an on-call system will be established to deal with any emergency that occurs outside of normal working hours, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
Ordinary maintenance is understood as all those so-called ‘routine’ services (checking, review, verification, regulation, adjustment, fine-tuning; repair, renewal or simple replacement; cleaning and similar) to be carried out on the facilities, schools and offices, in which are integrated into these operations the renovations, replacements, replacements or simple repairs that the element requires to keep it in adequate conditions of operation and use, without any limitation or exclusion, unless it must be considered as an extraordinary maintenance operation.
Regarding extraordinary maintenance, these operations include all those repair, replacement or renovation, reform, expansion or improvement works that are necessary to recover the functionality or ornamentation of the facilities where breakdowns or damage have occurred, or the endanger regardless of the cause. The treatment of xylophages in wood carpentry will be taken into account within them.
The set of properties that are affected by this framework contract exceeds 200. Thus, there are 38 schools, while the municipal agencies total 192. Among them are the headquarters of the neighborhood associations that are municipal, passing through the properties in those where the Social Work Units (UTS) are located, the properties transferred to the carnival groups, the Municipal Palace itself or the municipal library.
