What role does intervention have in a public contract?

Look, intervention in a public contract is not anything, huh? It is like that referee that nobody wants but everyone needs when the game gets intense. Basically, without someone watching the public bidding and hiring process, this would be a riot. It's not just about signing papers and now. Here what matters is that there is transparency, clean play, and that nobody gets ready.

When we talk about intervention, we are talking about real supervision, of that which puts the noses in everything. It can be an entity of the government, an external auditor, or even some international agency if the thing becomes serious. And be careful, it is not just looking from afar: they check papers, check that companies are really and not ghosts, monitor how the winner is chosen and they even see if the contract is fulfilled as it should. They are like Sauron's eye, but in legal version.

Why so much roll? So that nobody is cheating, or giving contracts to the cuates. If there is something strange, the intervention smells and puts hand. And if someone passes, then the sanctions come. In addition, not everything is punishment: many times they also help companies understand what the hell they have to do so as not to end up in legal or administrative trouble.

And not everything is scolding, huh. Sometimes the intervention also has its coaching facet: they give advice, they recommend how to assemble the contracts, how to choose the supplier well, and how to negotiate so that no one will lose. Because, let's be honest, sometimes public contracts seem written in Klingon and if you have no help, drown in technicalities.

Legally, this is not Choro. Each country has its own laws: in Spain is the Law of Public Sector Contracts, in Brazil the law of Licitações, and in the United States the Federal Acquisition Regulation. You have to know them, because there comes everything you can and you can't do.

In short, without intervention this would be the law of the jungle. If you are a company and want to enter public tenders, you better understand how the matter works and get along with those involved. Thus you save headaches, avoid getting in bronchas, and you can even win contracts more cool and profitable. Because here, he who does not know the rules is fried.