Alcance de la Declaratoria de Emergencia Sanitaria y Urgencia Manifiesta, Como Causal de Contratación Dirigida a la Población Vulnerable en el Municipio de Tunja en la vigencia 2020

Abstract

The investigation about the way in which state contracting has been handled in the midst of the pandemic by the Municipality of Tunja, is the objective of this text. It is a novel subject, to the extent that neither in the recent nor distant past have circumstances such as those that are known to the public have been experienced, through which not only the Municipality of Tunja, but Colombia and most of the countries of the world, given that it is facing a totally unknown condition that has led governments to adopt different measures of various characteristics, mainly in the field of health and basic sanitation, also including aspects such as the limitation of movement, and, for that matter Colombian, related to contracting for the cause of manifest urgency, in order to cover some requirements of population sectors with scarcity. In this context, it is intended to determine what the priorities of the Municipality of Tunja have been when dealing with exceptional circumstances, based in principle on the declaration of a state of economic, social and ecological emergency by the National Government, by as well as the health emergency, in the understanding that although the provision in question authorizes direct contracting, this does not imply the ignorance of the legal and jurisprudential principles that must permeate the state activity and the administrative function, derived from the satisfaction of the needs of a community.