railway has been awarded more than 1 billion euros in infrastructure contracts in the governments of Pedro Sanchez. From June 1, 2018 and until December 22, 2022the company run by Rafael del Pino has managed to win public competitions for this amount mainly from the Railway Infrastructure Administrator (Adif), of the manager of Spanish airports Aenaof the operator Renfeof the General Directorate of Roads and of State ports, according to the data of the Contract Platform of the Public Sector.
The year in which the business conglomerate de Ferrovial achieved a higher amount in awards by companies dependent on the Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda it was in 2019with 424.97 million euros of the total 1,014.89 million of the four years of the Sánchez era. The adjudications correspond to files with a award notice published on the platform and are owned by the companies Ferrovial Conservación SA, Ferrovial Construcción SA, Ferrovial Infraestructuras SA, Ferrovial Internacional SA, Ferrovial Transco España, SA and Grupo Ferrovial, SA
Adif, in front
The awards to Adif in recent years, in full expansion of the high speed network in Spain, they are the ones that add up to the largest amounts. The record is in the fiscal year 2019with 287.64 million, but in 2022 there are also another 256.84 million and, in 2021, there had been 142.67 million. After the railway infrastructure manager is Aena, whose contracts added the highest volume in 2020 with 14.76 million of the total of the 22.08 of that year.
Ferrovial’s move to the Netherlands has generated a real stir in political circles and economic. To the statements of president of the Government or the first vice president, has also joined this Friday the transport ministerRaquel Sánchez, has indicated that the business decision to move its headquarters to the Netherlands shows “little commitment” with Spain and that the company has forged thanks to public investment In our country. “It is a company that has been forged, has grown, thanks to public investment, thanks to those infrastructure we have paid for Spanish men and women”, he highlighted.
Sánchez took the opportunity to recall that the company has received awards in recent years for works worth more than 1,000 million euros.
“There is at least more than 1 billion reasons so that Ferrovial continues to maintain its headquarters here, and there is also 47 million of Spaniards who deserve this company to remain committed to their country”, he denounced, along the same lines as the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, during his visit to Finland.
comply with the law
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Regarding whether the change of registered office could affect awards to Ferrovial, the minister indicated that the Government complies with the law, “the legal framework that defines how to do the Public contracts“, which allows the country to have “legal security”. The holder of Transportation He has remarked that “we will always comply with the public procurement law”, with which they are very strict in their application.
“The reasons that Ferrovial has argued they just didn’t convince usI think that at least they are questionable”, stated Sánchez, who stressed that the decision “It’s not good news for Spain”. In addition, Sánchez recalled that the president of Ferrovial, Rafael del Pino, said in an act with the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, a few weeks ago that “he was going to continue working for Spain to make Spain more and better”, and that this decision does not correspond to the will that he expressed.