2024-04-21 11:36:16
The municipality supported the offer that Mega made and revealed how the process will continue.
Great controversy has generated the tender for the Viña Festival for the period 2025-2028 after Canal 13 will send a letter to Municipality of Viña del Mar where it requests that “the current process be declared void.”
The private channel points out that Mega, the only channel that made an offerdoes not respect at least six points of the bases of the process.
Faced with this, Canal 13 stated that if the municipality grants the Festival to Mega would be violating law 19,886, which states that You must reject any offer that does not comply with the basesadding that the channel “You do not have the right to modify your offer at this stage, as it would affect the legal regularity of the bidding process.”
“We ask the Municipality to adhere to the law and keep these considerations in mind in order to ensure the regularity of this bidding process and, ultimately, “not to vitiate the awarding of a brand as important for the country as the Viña del Mar Festival is.”wrote Channel 13.
The response to Canal 13 for the Viña Festival tender
Following this controversial request, the Municipality of Viña del Mar sent a statement in which they demonstrated their response to the channel.
“We are in the middle of the bidding process and the Evaluation Commission is making good progress.” and without setbacks in the preparation of the final reports to make them available to the Municipal Council,” the letter begins.
Along with this, they added that “we hope to finalize the award during the last weeks of April, according to the time and manner that had been planned.”
“The bidders have made us a great proposal,” they added from the municipality, supporting the agreement they reached with Mega.
Further revealing that his offer means “unprecedented benefits for tourism promotion and economic development of the citycontemplating the modernization of the event, which also takes into consideration the care of the Festival Brand, which is the heritage of an entire country.”