This document discusses public contracts and chip imports to Ecuador. It defines a public contract as an arrangement where at least one party is a public authority. It also outlines the requirements for contracts to be considered SARA (Contracts Subject to Regulation Harmonized), including value thresholds for works, supply, and service contracts. It notes that smart chips used in debit and credit cards would not require an NIE certificate for importation under Resolution 116.

1. PUBLIC CONTRACTS AND CHIP
IMPORTS TO ECUADOR
LOGISTIC
TUTOR: MSc Max Galarza
MEMBERS:
Paola Suárez
Helen Villa
Michelle Velarde
Carla Stopper
Indira Guevara

2. • The public contract is an arrangement in which at least
one party is a public authority when acting as such, and
which is subject to a legal regime that places the
contractor in a situation of legal subordination to the
Administration.
¿What is
Public
Contract?

3. • The purpose of this contract is governed accordingly by the
public law. In any contract must participate in at least one
government organ exercising administrative role. Now it is the
law that defines what is meant by proper state body, which in
certain circumstances may include non-state entities internal
public law.

4. • In Europe Regulation (EC) No 2195/2002 of the
European Parliament and of the Council of 5 November
2002 establishing common procurement vocabulary
(CPV) applies. Other sectoral directives, one for works,
supplies and services and one for the water, energy,
transport and telecommunications, leaning missing the
absence of a directive or regulation framework for all
public procurement.
EUROPA

5. • Such is the importance that the European Union gives the
contracting activity states that there is a specific rule, which we
call Community Contracts Directive, dedicated to regulate this
area. This is due to community efforts to achieve freedom of
access to public tenders and a true market competition. Public
contracts subject to this rule are called SARA contracts..
Contracts Subject to
Regulation Harmonized
(SARA)

6. • Only contracts by contracting authorities , as have been
defined above, may be contracts SARA . No matter
whether they are government or private or government
contracts . The important thing is to be contracting
authorities.
subjective requirements

7. • The works contract and public works concession must
have an estimated value equal to or greater than
5,000,000 euros
• The supply contract and the service must have an
estimated value equal to or greater than 130,000 euros in
the case of the State Public Sector or 200,000 euros in the
case of the Regional or Local Public Sector .
• The public-private partnership contract is a contract
always SARA whatever its size.
SARA Contracts for :

8. • In the search for your product in the list of our
items require the NIE certificate of appreciation
for the importation thereof, our product smart
chip currently used in debit and credit cards are
not included in Resolution 116.

9. COMPETENCE
Unitecblue is a leading company in Argentina that
produces about 1,500 million chips per year, which may
be used in various projects such as medicines, livestock,
e-government through chips included in passports,
driver's licenses, memory devices, system mobile
communication (GSM), financial migration magnetic
stripe or microchip and microelectronics.