The Generalitat has formally initiated the procedure to terminate the contract of €1.5 million with the company blind after the fiasco of the oppositions on April 29. This has been made public by the Government in a statement this Friday. The Catalan administration gives the company awarded the contract a period of 10 days to present its allegations, as required by law, and will subsequently break all contractual ties with the company and will present the compensation it considers for the damage caused.
This process could take between one and two months, so before September the Catalan administration plans to inform Cegos exactly how much money it will claim. The ‘Councillor’ of the Presidency, Laura Vilagraalready advanced that it would be a minimum of one million euros. From the Generalitat they already assume that Cegos will judicially appeal the sanction imposed and that the resolution of the case must be decided by a judge.
The Generalitat justifies the termination of the contract to organize the organization, surveillance and correction of the oppositions based on the 4,136 incident forms compiled during the past week, with more than 13,000 irregularities reported by the applicants. “The General Directorate of Public Function has issued the legal report, dated May 11, 2023, which concludes that these irregularities are serious and widespread and that, therefore, it is necessary to annul the tests and redo them with guarantee”.
In fact, the company is still in custody of the evidence and during the last days, at the expense of the formal communication of termination of the contract, it was correcting them. More of 13,500 opponents They were registered to take the exam on April 29 and all the tests will be repeated. The date of the repetition will be Saturdays July 1 and 8.
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In parallel to the legal process of rescinding the contract, the Generalitat is studying what funds are available to in turn compensate the more than 13,500 opponents registered on April 29 to compete for one of the 1,825 places offered.
The administration is negotiating said amount and method of distribution with the most representative unions in the Catalan civil service. They have not yet defined it, although the intention is that all those registered – who paid fees between 56 euros (ordinary) and €12.05 (large family or single parent) – get paid before taking the exam again.