Afectaciones en contratos de obra pública de infraestructura por actos de corrupción: Odebrecht-Ruta del Sol 2010

Abstract

The case of Odebrecht Corruption as a member of the Ruta del Sol Consortium, not only sparked a strong controversy throughout the country, due to the investigations and imputations of charges and other relevant activities carried out by the Attorney General's Office against senior officials from different public entities; but also because of the direct effects on the applicable constitutional principles and those that regulate the contracting procedure in Colombia. In an exhaustive analysis and detailing one by one the procedures that the Colombian regulations have established as mandatory for the Public Entities to acquire a good and / or service through contracting, it was determined that as a consequence, they were seen Different procedures were affected by INCO today National Infrastructure Agency both in the award of section two of the Ruta del Sol and during the execution of contract No. 003 of 2010. This case study ended up being one of the strongest acts of corruption, because of the activities carried out in common agreement between the contractor and Public Entity; severe economic alterations were generated because there was no normal development of Public Management nor the correct integration of the main objective as it is, the fulfillment of the essential purposes of the State through its main tool: State Contracting.