Determination of the level of risk in the execution of public works by contract in the UNCP during 2010-2017

Abstract

The research had the objective of finding causes underlying risks in the execution of the public contract Works at the University, analyzing and contrasting public tenders held during 2010-2017, information extracted from the offices of logistics, accounting and infrastructure works of the entity, as well as the OSCE, CGR, MEF and Infobras portal.

Using policy instruments of Contraloría General de la República (General Comptroller of the Republic) regulating governing body from the national control system and from the OSCE; disaggregation of each processidentified that there is no adequate risk management in executing public works by contracting, which entails high risk in: opportunity as detected that the delay time doubles the anticipated one in the definitive studies of PIPs , and the oversized reference value exceeds in fifteen percent as the culmination value , corroborated with financial technical liquidations and extracted from the portal of regulating entities as well as the friendly MEF portal.

The conclusion is that the national control system in our country is anachronistic, obsolete and controversial; it is also an open door to public funds mis-using, because it is a post controland not preventive and simultaneous control involving improvements in the quality of public expenditure, the supply system responds to a traditional legal scaffolding, the law and its reglament have lacks that lead to bad practices of authorities and state officials, open to favor the contractor through resolution of disputes, being arbitration or conciliation acts, generating economic damage to the State.