Of the totality of these projects with alerts, 78 million for $321 billion to strengthen science and technology to address covid-19 pandemic “that, according to its period of execution -between 8 and 12 months-, will not be ready at the most critical stage of the emergency.“.

“These are 359 projects in various regions of the country that were approved but not contracted, have not been approved or are overdue or suspended,” the watchdog reported in a statement.

The alerts were identified by the Directorate of Information Analysis and Immediate Reaction (DIARI) of the Comptroller General’s Office.
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with a data analytics model that, with artificial intelligence, “managed to review in only three months 841 contracts of SGR resources for an amount of $3.42 billion”.

“One of the conclusions reached with the royalties analytical model is that all the projects and contracts that today have alerts have passed through the decisions of the regional Collegiate Administration and Decision Making Bodies (OCAD), which could have been detected at the stage prior to approval“, he pointed out.

The Comptroller’s Office identified 185 projects that were approved by the OCAD, but had not been contracted and exceeded $821,000 million.

“To date, of this universe, 90 projects have not been contracted, 25 are in the process of being contracted, 36 were disapproved, 18 are being executed, 15 are contracted without a start-up agreement and only one has been completed,” he warned.

Likewise, the DIARI detected 96 projects for $1.26 trillion that are overdue or delayed and on which the Royalties Monitoring and Auditing Unit initiated 25 special actions, which have generated 8 fiscal findings for $84,000 million in projects totaling $252,000 million.

He added that “17 projects are in the finalization stage of the audit stage to establish possible fiscal findings; and another 48 that exceed $348,000 million will be incorporated into the CGR’s Fiscal Surveillance Plan for the first half of 2021″.