By Resolution of the National Institute of Social Security of 20 March 2012, the provincial and central bodies of that institution were delegated the exercise of various powers.

In the "Official State Gazette" of 30 April 2013, the Resolution of 9 April 2013, of the National Institute for Social Security, which is amended on 20 March 2012, was published on the competencies.

This amendment was justified on the grounds that the management experience advised the adoption of measures aimed at rationalising and homogenising certain areas of administrative procurement. Such measures involved, without prejudice to the services received, a better use of public resources. All this has determined the need to modify the delegation of competences attributed to this Directorate General in the areas mentioned above, in the central and peripheral areas of the entity.

In particular, the amendment made in paragraph 7.2 (a) of the first resolution of that resolution was based on criteria of effectiveness and efficiency, which are enforceable in all procurement procedures. This amendment has made it possible to carry out the procurement of cleaning and surveillance services and/or security in territorial areas higher than those corresponding to the provincial addresses. On the basis of this, seven territorial groupings were set up, with the power to conclude, without limitation, the power to conclude the contracts referred to in the General Secretary and the provincial directors of the established entity. expressly in that paragraph.

However, for operational reasons, it is necessary to carry out a further amendment to paragraph 7.2 (a) of the first paragraph of Article 2 (a) of that Resolution of 20 March 2012, as regards the body responsible for to conclude contracts relating to cleaning and surveillance services and/or security in one of the established territorial groupings.

In its virtue, and in accordance with the provisions of Article 13 of Law 30/1992, of November 26, of the Legal Regime of Public Administrations and of the Common Administrative Procedure, and in the additional provision The 13th of Law 6/1997, of 14 April, of the Organization and the Functioning of the General Administration of the State, resolutely:

First.

amend paragraph 7.2 (a) of the first resolution of the Resolution of 20 March 2012 of the National Social Security Institute on the delegation of powers, which is worded as follows:

" (a) In general, the power to conclude works contracts, public service management, supply contracts, services and collaboration between the public sector and the private sector, special administrative departments and private contracts, irrespective of the award procedure, provided that the price of the contract does not exceed EUR 450,000, excluding VAT.

In a specific way, the power to conclude contracts whose main object is the execution of the cleaning service of the dependencies assigned to the ordinary field of the respective provincial management, is delegated. the surveillance and/or security services of the same, the preventive and corrective maintenance of their installations and the supply of electrical energy for those services, provided that the price of the contract does not exceed the amount of EUR 900,000, VAT excluded.

However, and in respect of the assumptions for the procurement of cleaning, surveillance and/or security services, the geographical scope of which the service is to be contracted exceeds the territory of an address. By means of the territorial groupings established for this purpose, the province shall, without limitation of the amount, be delegated to the holder of the General Secretariat and to the holders of the provincial addresses relating to it, the power to conclude the contracts referred to above. This delegation is without prejudice to the provisions of the first and second paragraphs of this paragraph in the event that the territorial scope of the contract is provincial.

Territorial groupings that are set for the hiring of the cleaning service

Territorial groupings that are established for the procurement of surveillance and/or security services

For the price of the contract, the contract must be understood as the maximum amount of the expenditure, irrespective of any extensions and other concepts that make up the estimated value of the contracts, in the terms of the contract. established in Article 88.1 of the recast text of the Public Sector Contracts Act.

The right of conclusion of these contracts is implied by the approval of the project and the specifications of particular administrative clauses and technical requirements, the award of the contract, the formalization of the same and the other powers that the recast text of the Law of Public Sector Contracts attributes to the contracting authority, except the interpretation, declaration of nullity and resolution of the contract, when it is formulated opposition by the contractor. "

Second.

The procedures and files initiated before the effects of this resolution will not apply to them, subject to the resolutions on the delegation of powers applicable at that time.

Third.

This resolution shall take effect from the day following that of its publication in the "Official State Gazette"

Madrid, May 27, 2015. -Director General of the National Institute of Social Security, María Eugenia Martín Mendizabal.