¿EL PRINCIPIO DE TRANSPARENCIA EN LA CONTRATACIÓN ESTATAL SE GARANTIZA A TRAVÉS DE LA IMPLEMENTACIÓN DE LAS OPERACIONES CIBERNÉTICAS DEL ESTADO?

Abstract

Colombia is a country that in recent years has been characterized by notorious corruption scandals, which have developed in part in scenarios such as state contracting. Since the bulk of public officials use this medium to favor their followers and sponsors or to profit from their coffers. The figure of state contracting has been disfigured despite having a legal framework - Law 80 of 1993 - which is regulated and complemented by Law 1150 of 2007, Laws 1437 and 1474 of 2011 and Decrees 19 and 734 of 2012 - as in the manifest urgency declared within the state of emergency by COVID - 19, where some territorial entities and the Colombian state itself squandered public resources, disrupting the selection processes and the principles of state contracting. Colombia requires more than a legal framework, to give its social conglomerate the guarantee that the public treasury emerging from the taxes that Colombians pay are invested efficiently in satisfying the needs of the State. Needs for a State that, in the face of the economic crisis as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, corruption, war and drug trafficking, cannot continue to be squandered by those who exercise public office. Thus, it is necessary to address state contracting as it is currently conceived in Colombia, safeguarding the principle of transparency and launching the transactional portal of the Colombian State - Colombia Compra Eficiente, as a modality of cybernetic operation of the State.