El Calp Town Hall has achieved that the Central Administrative Tribunal for Contractual Appeals (TACRC) dictate the precautionary suspension of the competition of the Valencian generalitat to award the urgent and non-urgent land ambulance transport service of the ValenciaThe decision, which was announced this 3 JuneThe TACRC has halted the bidding process following an appeal filed by the Calpe town council, which considers the number of ambulances allocated to the municipality insufficient. The TACRC justified the measure by arguing that continuing the procedure could cause irreparable harm while the appeal is being examined.
The reasons given by Calp for the suspension
The precautionary suspension affects the entire bidding process and will remain in effect until the court resolves the appeal and, if applicable, orders the lifting of the measure. At the beginning of May, Calp Town Hall filed a special appeal regarding contracting against the technical specifications of the procedure.
The Calpe town council believes that the tender specifications do not accurately calculate the estimated number of ambulances needed to cover basic healthcare needs. Specifically, they estimate that the number of ambulances allocated by the Ministry of Health The funding allocated to the municipality of Calp is insufficient to meet the actual needs.
Among the reasons cited by the Calp Town Hall The City Council believes the tender specifications are invalidated by the understaffing of the ambulance service in the municipality. The Council argues that the specifications fail to take into account:
- The actual population of the municipality.
- The floating population.
- The distance between the regional hospital and Calp.
- The time it can take to reach the regional hospital during the summer season.
The Calp Town Hall It alleges a lack of justification for the method used to determine the estimated resources allocated to each municipality. It also argues that the criteria used to determine the number of ambulances have been distorted and suggests that there may have been a miscalculation of the base budget for the tender and the estimated value of the contract.
History of complaints regarding the healthcare service
The appeal filed before the Central Administrative Court of Contractual Appeals It is the last step in a series of actions of Calp Town Hall to compensate for the shortage of vehicles assigned by the Ministry of Health. In the year 2018The council requested the Valencian generalitat the delegation of the provision of the municipal health transport service, complementary to that which was previously provided by the Ministry of HealthThis request was denied by the Ministry, which determined the existence of duplication and considered that it could not be provided by the City Council as an improper competence.
Later in the year 2022, Calp Town Hall filed a claim for patrimonial liability against the Valencian generalitat, Department of Universal Health and Public HealthThe complaint stemmed from the economic cost the council was incurring by contracting an ambulance service with its own resources to supplement the inadequate provision made available by the Ministry of HealthThis claim was rejected by the Ministry.
Given this rejection, the Calp Town Hall filed an administrative appeal against the resolution of the Undersecretary of the Department of Universal Health and Public Health de August 4th, 2022The court dismissed this administrative appeal. With this new appeal, the Calp Town Hall It ultimately seeks to rectify the number of ambulances assigned to the municipality.
