Panama: NO to Companies Condemned in Other Countries

A new law initiative pretends to forbid the participation of companies that have been convicted in other countries for crimes against the public administration in contracts with the State.

Thursday, January 25, 2018

The bill that was presented on January 23, requests the modification of texts in the legal framework that regulate Panamanian public procurement, to avoid awarding contracts to companies that are accused of acts of corruption in Panama and also abroad. 

From the introduction of the bill:
" ... we deem it opportune to propose the inclusion of grounds for the legal incapacity to contract, through an addition of numeral 9 to article 16 of Law 61 of 2017, since although there was a recent reform, [the text] only included as a cause of inability to contract the existence of a judicial sentence of conviction within the national territory."

" ... the proposal is to introduce, through the addition of numeral 10, the obligation of the contractor to make an affidavit stating that they have not been convicted of crimes against the public administration within the territory of the Republic of Panama or abroad."

See full legal initiative (in Spanish).

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