Public contracting and its impact on budget execution in the public company National Telecommunication Corporation, province of Manabí

Abstract

In Ecuador, budget execution finds a basic premise in public contracting, since it allows optimizing resources and reducing losses due to various circumstances. The general objective of this article was, "to analyze the incidence of public contracting in the budget execution of the public company Corporación Nacional de Telecomunicaciones, province of Manabí", and for which a non-experimental investigation was developed under qualitative-quantitative derivations, descriptive and field. The documentary review technique was applied to conform the state of the art, as well as to assess the real situation of the two variables of the investigation. A survey of qualified suppliers was carried out, in addition to interviews with the financial chief and director of the entity's public procurement area. One of the results was the still presence of problems around the contracting, especially in the location of part of the entity of the specifications, since it is conceived that sometimes they are directed towards a specific participant. One of the conclusions from the issuance of new public contracting regulations in Ecuador is that although the award concentrated to a few suppliers has decreased, budget execution continues to maintain low levels compared to what was projected in the initial budget. The foregoing has as its main origin delays in the transfers made by the Central Government, but also delays in choosing the most appropriate contractor due to non-compliance with requirements by the participants.

Keywords: Hiring, budget, efficiency.