Municipality of the city of Guayaquil awards waste collection contract to Ecuadorian consortium

On August 19th, the Municipality of the city of Guayaquil awarded a contract for waste collection in the city to the Urvaseo Consortium, formed by the Spanish company Urbaser and the Ecuadorian Valango. The amount of the contract is US $ 402'072.439.15, with a value per metric ton of US $ 35.34 and an execution term of more than seven years (2.737 days). Among other obligations, the consortium has taken the commitment of increasing the number of collection units and developing a new waste transfer plant.

Valango has been in charge of waste collection in the city of Guayaquil since 1992, first as member of Vachagnon Consortium and later as part of Puerto Limpio Consortium, who has been in charge of waste collection in the city of Guayaquil since 1992.

After the contract was awarded to Urvaseo, the disqualified bidder (the Guayaquil Limpio consortium, formed by the Ecuadorian company Hidalgo e Hidalgo and the Mexican Promotora La Laguna, of the Pasa Group, whose offer was US $ 419'847.624.31), filed a claim before the National Public Procurement Service (known by its acronym in Spanish“Sercop”).

On August 22nd, Sercop notified the Municipality of Guayaquil with request for information, which threatened to suspend the process until Guayaquil Limpio’s claim is resolved. Subsequently, Urvaseo filed a constitutional injunction aimed at overturning the Sercop’s decision. On September 3rd Urvaseo's request was accepted. The constitutional judge ordered Sercop to refrain from carrying out further actions in connection with the tender and particularly, to refrain from ordering any suspension. In a public statement Sercop announced that it will comply with the decision withtout prejudice of filing any legal recourse that could assit them.

Legal Advisors

In the contract negotiation process:

Advisors of the Urvaseo Consortium

Carmigniani Pérez Abogados: Partners Eduardo Carmigniani and Carlos Andretta, senior associates Roxana Aguirre and Priscilla Falconí.

In the trial of constitutional precautionary measures:

Advisors of the Urvaseo Consortium

Carmigniani Pérez Abogados: Partner Eduardo Carmigniani and senior associate Roberto Carmigniani.