LOS COMITÉS ESTRUCTURADORES Y EVALUADORES FRENTE A LOS PRINCIPIOS DE PLANEACIÓN Y SELECCIÓN OBJETIVA EN LA CONTRATACIÓN PÚBLICA EN COLOMBIA

Abstract

State contracting in Colombia from its beginnings was structured around guiding principles that direct it, including the principle of planning and objective selection. These principles are palpable through the doctrine, the rulings of the Council of State and the Constitutional Court, through which the interpretation of the aforementioned principles is developed in terms of their concept and scope. Thus, the planning principle is located in the pre-contractual stage of the administrative process of public contracting where the structuring and evaluating committees (economic, technical and legal) serve and is appreciated as the primary foundation of state contracting, understood as the fundamental gear of the process that directs and represents. Likewise, the principle of objectivity is obtained from the implementation of the accumulation of contracts provided by the state, regardless of whether they are of private or administrative origin, without distinction of their value, applied perpendicularly, and found in all stages of the process.