How long does it take a special resource?

UF, the issue of special resources in public procurement ... go mess. Look, the process to solve one of these resources can be a roller coaster, because it depends on a thousand things: the tangle of the case, how saturated are those who decide, and the area in which you touch you, of course. Now, if we get legal, the public sector contract law in Spain (the famous LCSP, for friends) says that there is a maximum month to resolve and notify the appeal. This comes out in article 44.5, in case it is cool to go to the fountains.

That month is key, especially for companies that want to catch a public contract. Because if your hand is going with the deadline, your planning can go to the garet and, incidentally, your options in other tenders may suffer. Eye, that if the month passes and nobody says or Mu, the resource is automatically lost, "administrative silence" roll (which is that if they do not answer, bad luck).

Of course, it is not that everything depends only on the contracting body. If your resource is a badly made roles bite, however fast they are, I doubt something good. So, yours is to curve the resources, explaining things clear and bluntly. That usually helps not to get the process stuck.

Now, if you put in the equation the precautionary measures ... there you can assemble it. Because, although in principle the appeal does not stop the contract (article 43.1, for the BOE geeks), the award can decide to stop the machine if there are reasons. And if that happens, the resolution period can be stretched as a gum.

Total, that although the law sells you the motorcycle that everything is resolved in a month, in real life things are not always so fluid. If you are a company and you play it in a tender, you better see the idea that there may be delays and plan well. And, please seek good advice, because a well -armed resource can be the difference between winning or palmar.