La colusión en Colombia “una práctica desleal frente a la libre competencia”

Abstract

This article aims to identify the particularities of Colombian public procurement especially public tenders and the application of existing laws to combat it, with this seeks to raise awareness of the problem, give directions and proposals to reach a more effective compliance in terms of recommendations and laws, taking into account that public procurement must be effective and comply with the State's purposes. In addition, collusion is typified in the Anticorruption Statute, but this is not enough to reduce corruption in public tenders, taking into account the above, the effectiveness of the instruments raised in the Colombian legal system and the difficulties faced by the entities must be reviewed. public, at the time of advancing bidding processes because in many of the situations it is difficult to detect by the public administration, finally a comparative study is made with the ordinances of other South American countries.