The Technical Secretariat of the Public Procurement Advisory Board made available to the contracting bodies of Catalonia, in October 2023, the document on Recommendations and good practices in the use of the Public Procurement Services Platform (PSCP) and the tools eLicita, which highlights aspects to take into account to guarantee the rigor of the data and compliance with the guiding principles of contracting, highlighting that of transparència, equal treatment and public access to information.
This May, the document has been updated by the same competent body, to include the aspects detailed below:
– A section on advertising is added and transparència of the traces of opening of the envelopes containing the offers. Specifically, it is noted that, in order to comply with the principles of advertising and transparència –and given that by using electronic means in public procurement procedures, it is not required to open the envelopes containing the bids in public–, must be included in the minutes of the meetings that are published in the PSCP the opening record generated by the Digital Envelope tool with the traces of the actions taken to open the offers, which guarantee the secrecy of the offers until the moment of opening, in accordance with the fifteenth additional provision of Law 9/2017, of November 8, on public sector contracts.
– In the section relating to the setting of deadlines for submitting bids, It is remembered that if the deadlines are set in calendar days, to provide for this in a law –as is the case with the twelfth additional provision of the LCSP– or European Union law, this circumstance must be stated in the corresponding notifications, in accordance with article 30.2 of Law 39/2015, of October 1, on the common administrative procedure of public administrations.
See details at press release from the Technical Secretariat of the Public Procurement Advisory Board and the document of Recommendations and good practices in the use of the Public Procurement Services Platform (PSCP) and the tools eLicita
