The Institute for Access to Public Information (IAIP) ordered the declassification and delivery of procurement documents.
Following an order from the Institute for Access to Public Information (IAIP), the mayor of San Salvador reversed the reservation of information on the hiring of the company Eye Tech Solutions (ETS) for the installation Installation of a video surveillance system in the capital.
The commune had reserved the information for 5 years, which began running in February 2020, but after several citizens appealed to the IAIP to be given the documentation to be a process public, the Institute resolved last September that the mayor’s office declassify the documentation and deliver it to the petitioners.
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Thus, on September 23, 2020, through a memorandum, the municipality gave the green light to the declassification of documents on the procurement process, but the decision has been notified this week by the IAIP to some of the sol · bidders.
The mayor’s office told the Institute that the delay in delivering the information to reach the applicants was due to the suspension of administrative and judicial deadlines during the first months of the pandemic in past and then by the gradual incorporation of municipal employees in various areas.
The reasons given by the mayor
Among the reasons given by the mayor last year, based on the Law on Access to Public Information, for denying the information of the hiring of the Mexican company Eyetech Solutions SA de CV for more than $ 84 million was that it “puts national defense and public safety at risk” and that it put “obviously endangering the life, safety or health of anyone,” as it contained “high-sensitivity information” and could fall in “wrong hands.”
On January 17, 2020, the Municipal Council of San Salvador awarded for 15 years the Concession of public service of the monitoring system and technological platform of Smart City (Smart City), for the prevention of violence, crime and local development of the municipality of San Salvador “.
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According to documents from Mexico’s public trade register, Israeli Yaniv David Zangilevitch became the representative of MTS, which has done business with several Mexican cities.
Mayor Ernesto Muyshondt has said that with this project more than 1,300 cameras will be installed in at least 100 points in the capital.