The contract to operate the life saving beach services on the Orihuela Costa is set to be put to public tender, with a value of 325,000 euro.
The requirement to find a replacement company came about after the original contract holder, Ambuibérica SYA, requested that they be released from the contract as the company was facing financial difficulties and undergoing a restructuring process.
The company was originally awarded the contract under the management of a previous coastal councillor, Pedro Mancebo.
An agreement was reached for the company to provide the services during the Easter period of this year, which was done in line with the contractual requirements, including two life guards on duty during the period of operation, despite allegations to the contrary made by Mancebo and his political groups, but confirmed by the routine checks of the town hall technicians. The company was unable to continue beyond that season.
Mancebo had previously criticised the lack of floating access chair for disabled beach goers to use, as some beaches did not have these last summer, despite the contractual requirement. The councillor for the coast, Martina Scheurer, admitted that this may well have been the case, but only because it was an erroneous clause in the original contract, as not all of the beaches are accessible to people with mobility problems. That element has now been corrected from the original tender document and the new company must continue to provide these facilities, but only on the beaches which are actually accessible to those who might wish to use them.
Now, the contract is set to go to tender to cover the remaining duration of the period of the original term, which will take in the summer of 2014, as well as Easter and summer of 2015.
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