DERECHO DE ACCESO A LA INFORMACIÓN PÚBLICA Y CONTRATOS ADMINISTRATIVOS

Abstract

In this paper, a study is carried out on the participation of society in the control of administrative contracts, confronting the applicable regulatory framework in our country with what happens in reality, since, from my point of view, there is a discrepancy between administrative praxis and what is established in the legal norms at stake. The issue of society's participation in the control of administrative contracts caught my attention several years ago because I worked in a Goods and Services Procurement Subdirectorate of a decentralized agency of the Ministry of Security. The scant public information provided by the State in public contracts, together with the disinterested participation of the citizenry, generated high levels of corruption in the public service, as can be seen in the cases of Skanska, IBM, Thales Spectrum, and the renamed Odebrecht. Reality shows us that there is currently no adequate compliance with the regulations on Access to Public Information, and there is much ignorance and fear in this regard. Without promoting a culture of openness and transparency, and given the organizational atomization of the State, we will only be promoting conditional access to information held by