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A total of forty-four hospitals throughout the country are participating in this Centralized Tender for Energy and Electric Power. It is a 72-month purchase for an annual energy exchange that reaches 170,000 MWh / year and that will achieve savings of US $ 30 million during the supply period. The government calls the companies of the sector to participate in this tender whose closing date is May 30, 2019. Forty-four Health Establishments between Arica and Chiloé are participating in this centralized tender for Energy and Electric Power carried out by the Directorate ChileCompra ID 1060323-1-LR19 in www.mercadopublico.cl , in which demand was added to get better prices in the electricity component under a free price regime as provided in the General Electric Services Law. The government calls the companies of the sector to participate in this tender whose closing date is May 30, 2019. This process is part of the installation of collaborative purchases in the context of the state modernization plan led by the Ministry of Finance and promoted by the ChileCompra Directorate with the support of the Ministry of Health. The Undersecretary of Finance, Francisco Moreno, stressed that as a result of this centralized bidding process total savings are expected, considering the supply and distribution of electric power, close to 30 million dollars during the period of 6 consecutive years, that undoubtedly represents an important saving for the State and the health establishments, who will be able to allocate said resources to provide more and better services to the community . For his part, the Undersecretary of Healthcare Networks, Luis Castillo, stressed that this centralized purchase is also part of a series of efficiency spending strategies that we are carrying out in health centers in the country and that only in 2018 allowed to save more than 2 billion and we project 9 billion more by 2019. In particular, thanks to interministerial work, 44 hospitals met the requirements to bid power directly to generators and not to distributors and in this context, with this We already have 54 health facilities with this new energy modality that will allow us to save and dedicate more money to the health care of people, Castillo said, adding that by way of example,30 million dollars equals the acquisition of approximately 101 mammograms to prevent breast cancer. Moreno stressed that this type of action is directly benefiting citizens by translating into a better use of public resources throughout Chile. This is how we project savings in La Araucanía regions for 3.5 million dollars; in the Maule Region for 3.1 million dollars; and in the Metropolitan Region for more than 10.5 million dollars. In turn, the Undersecretary of Energy, Ricardo Irarrázabal, said that as the Ministry of Energy we have an agreement in force with the Ministry of Health to provide technical advice and generate significant savings in electricity consumption in hospitals in Chile. With this centralized purchase, and taking into account that regulated prices remain high, hospitals benefited throughout Chile, become free customers within the electricity market, so they can jointly opt for the best prices by negotiating directly with the generators, in this case, through tender . Irarrázabal also added that we are currently studying a rate change at the national level for the Ministry of Health and Healthcare Networks, which would add an estimated savings of an additional $ 1 million. The Director (S) of ChileCompra, Dora Ruiz, explained that a new model of collaborative purchases was installed in order to achieve high effective savings for the Treasury, through the aggregation of demand and the use of economies of scale. For this, we have advanced a lot in the health sector, in coordinated purchases to obtain better prices and we are innovating in new areas such as the centralization of the acquisition of electricity supply, taking advantage of the current competitive conditions of this market . Among the novelties that are considered in the tender is the possibility that the companies of the electrical sector can bid to the 12 sub-blocks of power supply arranged between Arica and Chiloé, with an aggregate power consumption that varies between 8,400 and 18,850 MWh for each sub-block and year of supply, allowing, in this way, the participation of smaller suppliers in order to encourage competition and obtain better prices for the energy supply of Health Establishments. Likewise, the tender allows to offer prices differentiated by time frames for the same sub-block of supply in order to encourage the participation of companies generating clean energy, such as solar energy and wind energy. Another interesting aspect to highlight is the positive payment behavior of participating hospitals in relation to electricity bills, where 93% of them pay within the period specified by the Ministry of Health through Letter No. 394 dated January 25, 2019, this is within a period no longer than 30 calendar days from the date of issuance of the respective invoices. Likewise, the Ministry of Health, through the Undersecretariat of Assistance Networks, provided a single centralized communication channel for payment management, where the awarded suppliers can make their inquiries and verify the payment situation of the services provided. This centralized tender is in addition to the pilot experience carried out with nine hospitals in the Biobío Region and the Regional Government at the beginning of 2018, where an annual electric energy exchange of up to 35,700 MWh / year was awarded to the Colbún provider for a period of 6 years and 4 months, obtaining total savings of $ 2,000 million for these institutions. This innovative initiative corresponded to the first centralized purchase made by the ChileCompra Directorate in the framework of the Collaborative Purchase Model. Tender deadlines Maximum time to enter questions: until 09-05-2019 Date of publication of answers: 05-16-2019 Maximum period to bid: until 05-30-2019 Estimated award date: 06-27-2019 What are collaborative purchases? Public purchases distinguish disaggregated purchases and collaborative purchases. In the disaggregated all the variables of the purchase decision, considering the complete acquisition cycle, are concentrated in the respective purchasing entity, without verification of instances of collaboration with other public entities. It is about the processes through public, private bidding and direct dealings carried out autonomously by the 850 organizations that trade in www.mercadopublico.cl , reaching an amount of US $ 9,300 million per year in 2018 of the total of US $ 13,000 million traded last year. On the other hand, in collaborative purchases, as its name indicates, different parts or actors of the public procurement system collaborate that, usually, do not interact directly. In these processes, organisms aggregate demand to a greater degree (centralized) or lower degree (coordinated) and thus take advantage of economies of scale obtaining savings for the Treasury. According to the OECD, increasing centralization in public purchases allows for savings of between 15 and 20% in purchases of goods and services from the State. This allows sectors such as Health, to spend less resources on materials and intermediate services (cleaning materials, electricity, etc.), to focus their spending on the production of public goods that directly benefit the citizens. Collaborative purchases in Chile are made with a limited number of agencies - often from the same ministerial unit: Finance, Health, etc. The aggregation of demand is always carried out regionally, promoting the participation of smaller companies and the opening of markets. For example, the Undersecretary of Healthcare Networks carried out a coordinated purchase in 2018 with health sector agencies to procure toiletries in a regional manner. The savings reached was 2 million one hundred thousand dollars. The purchase was made by macro-geographical areas that allowed suppliers from different regions to have an opportunity to bid. The proposal of collaborative purchases has the potential to help mitigate the financing problems faced by the Ministry of Health so that it allocates the resources it has to the direct generation of public goods (public health) and not to the purchase of materials. |
