The Institute for Access to Public Information (IAIP) has ordered the declassification and delivery of tender documents.
By order of the Institute for Access to Public Information (IAIP), the office of the Mayor of San Salvador has canceled the reservation of information about hiring Eye Tech Solutions (ETS) company to install the video surveillance system in the capital.
The municipality had reserved the information for 5 years, which started running in February 2020, but after several citizens appealed to the IAIP to provide them with the documentation because it was a public trial, the Institute decided in September last year that the mayor’s office has released the documentation and handed it over to petitioners.
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So it was that on September 23, 2020, the municipality gave the green light through a memorandum for the declassification of documents related to the hiring process, but the decision was communicated by the IAIP to some of the applicants this week.
The mayor’s office told the Institute that the delay in providing the information to reach the applicants was due to the suspension of administrative and judicial deadlines that occurred during the first months of the pandemic last year and then to the gradual progression. integration of employees municipalities in different areas.
The reasons given by the mayor
One of the reasons put forward by the mayor’s office last year, based on the Access to Public Information Act, for denying information about hiring Mexican company EyeTech Solutions SA’s CV for more than $ 84 million , that it was “national defense and public security” and that “the life, safety or health of a person was clearly in danger” as it contained “highly sensitive information” and could fall into “the wrong hands” .
On January 17, 2020, San Salvador City Council awarded for 15 years the “Public Service Concession of Smart City (Smart City) Monitoring System and Technology Platform for Violence, Crime Prevention and Local Development of San Salvador Municipality” .
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According to documents from Mexico’s Public Trade Register, Israeli Yaniv David Zangilevitch became the representative of ETS, which has done business with several Mexican cities.
Mayor Ernesto Muyshondt has said this project will install more than 1,300 cameras at at least 100 points in the capital.