Due to the «abuse» that the figure of the Contracts for the provision of services In public entities, the Government of Gustavo Petro wants to limit them and that only those that are aimed at carrying out specific and specialized tasks, which are for an established period of time, are really used.
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For this reason, the country’s public entities are currently carrying out a employment formalization plan and, once completed, it could come to make decisions regarding the contractors: if they work or not, because they do not meet the conditions.
In total, according to the Public Function, for the term of 2022, 911,440 service provision contracts were signed, which were the ones currently being analyzed. Of these, 573,758 corresponded to entities of the territorial order and 337,682 of the national order.
Sena and Icbf, with the greatest magnifying glass
The entities that signed the largest number of contracts for the provision of services in the national order in 2022 were the National Learning Service (Sena), with 31,380; followed by the Colombian Institute of Family Welfare, with 6,021; and the National University, with another 5,841 contracts.
In the case of territorial entities, those with the largest service provision contracts were the Mayor’s Office of Cali, with 9,375; followed by the District Secretariat for Social Integration of Bogotá, with 6,600; and the integrated Health Services Subnetwork south west of Bogotá, with 5,171 contracts.
Therefore, it is these entities that have to do the most work internally to verify whether or not these contracts are in line with this figure designed for exceptional cases.
Square until April
The directive of the Administrative Department of the Public Function is clear: they are bound by provision of services only to workers who are considered essential.
Parachute César Manrique, Director of Public FunctionIn the last three decades, the use of the figure has been abused to carry out permanent work in public entities.
According to a circular, public entities have until April to carry out the necessary technical studies with which to establish a personnel plant that really meets their missionary and administrative needs.
After that date, in the event that the studies determine the need to reform the internal organizational structure of the public entity, the required reorganization must be proposed.
The Public Function will observe that the formalization of public employment will be promoted taking into account four mechanisms: the provision of all positions of existing and vacant personnel plants; the expansion of the existing personnel plants, provided that the technical and financial conditions so allow; the creation of temporary plants in equity, with meritocratic criteria and vocation of permanence; and the rational use of contracts for the provision of services, exclusively attending to what is established in the law and in court rulings.
Is there enough time?
The Civil Service gave the entities 4 months to formalize employment. Given this, the attorney Note that time is short and he requested that the various instances be exhausted to adjust the personnel plants and prevent the lack of officials from generating a paralysis of the State at all levels.
Similarly, the Delegate for Labor and Social Security Affairs said that entities cannot be left «without the necessary and adequate staff to meet the demand for the services they provide to citizens» and indicates that the territorial entities have of autonomy to advance the procedures in terms of personnel plants.
