CONTEST UNDER SUSPICION

Favorable treatment of the Consell de Formentera to the former councilor of GxF, protagonist of the contest under suspicion.

The direct awarding of a sailing school after the lot was deserted reveals that the Consell de Formentera acts differently in an identical situation: in one case it excludes the offer for lack of documentation and in the case of Aguilera and another lot it awards them.
Daisee Aguilera.

The awarding of the sailing schools in Formentera, within the framework of the investigated mega-contest under suspicion, has left a series of irregularities -as it happened with the beach kiosks– that arouse a series of suspicions of favored treatment to the former councilor of Gent per Formentera, Daisee AguileraThe striking exclusion of one of the competitors, the differences in criteria applied by the Contracting Committee and the absence of the complete documentation required of the winners of the contest.

This situation has become evident in recent days after the Consell Insular de Formentera reported that it has opened a “process of direct award of a lot of the beach service that had been deserted“. This is lot 21, in which the proposal of the only bidder had been rejected for not presenting the corresponding qualifications. However, in the same situation were lots 2 – awarded to Enjoy WaterSports S.L. – and 10 – Whitesand Solutions, owned by the controversial Daisee Aguilera. Despite the requirements by the Consell and not accrediting the corresponding qualifications, they were the winners anyway.

Daisse Aguilera Sailing School.
Daisse Aguilera Sailing School during its assembly.

These favorable treatments are in contradiction with other decisions taken with extreme rigor for the remaining bidders of other lots of sailing schools: the competitor of lot 10 was rejected for having a debt of 30 euros with the Consell (another bidder of a beach bar was in the same situation and was allowed to remedy it), while other proposals were rejected for submitting the documentation less than two minutes after the deadline. In addition, as advanced by La Voz de Ibiza, the sailing school of Daisee Aguilera, who had an active role in the mobilization against Llorenç Cordoba last November, has operated throughout the summer illegally. At the beginning of the season, the Directorate General of Ports and Maritime Transport denied the request for opening, which has not prevented it from operating with impunity throughout the season.

Chronology of another award under suspicion

Already in May 2023, the bidders warned of these violations of the administrative specifications. On the 22nd of that month, the company Formentera 4 Nomadas S.L., owned by Asier Fernandez, who later became the island director of Litoral, which had been rejected from the process, demanded that “they certify that the bidding company or companies have the qualified personnel required in the administrative specifications to be awarded the contract”.

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The details of the administrative specifications for the concession of the Sailing Schools.

These qualifications were included in points 5.2 and 5.3 of the administrative specifications. There it establishes the “business authorization for the exercise of the activity” and requires the “authorizations and qualifications for the practice of nautical sports”; “Authorization for the operation of floating devices issued by the Maritime Captaincy of Ibiza and Formentera”; and “Professional title of skipper of pleasure boats that entitles to the management of the same”. On the other hand, the specifications also require the corresponding qualifications to the workers discharged: – A person who has the qualification in Sport Technician in Sailing with fixed rigging, and free rigging. In the case of schools where the practice of kite-surfing is foreseen, the required profile will have to have Level II. – A person in possession of at least one of the titles specified: Canoeing instructor (Initial Cycle of Canoeing Sports Technician) issued by the Spanish Canoeing Federation or equivalent title in accordance with current regulations; and Recreational canoeing guide, sea kayaking, issued by the Spanish Canoeing Federation or equivalent title in accordance with current regulations. For his part, on August 23, Benjamín Burillo Sánchez made a similar request as “as a bidder excluded from the tender” for lot 10 Sailing School in Illetas. In this case, he emphasized Whitesand Solutions, the beneficiary of his exclusion. This caused that in August the Governing Board of the Consell adopted a proposal to request documentation “prior to the awarding of the contracting file for the assignment of the exploitation rights of the seasonal services” for lots 2, 10 and 21, and granted a period of 10 working days for its presentation.

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Unanswered claims

Despite the expiration of the deadlines, these lots were not declared deserted. Therefore, on September 4, 2023, Formentera 4 Nómadas requested the “immediate exclusion of those bidding companies that do not comply with points 5.2 and 5.3 of the administrative specifications“. In addition, it requested that the companies Whitesand Solutions S.L. and Enjoy Watersport S.L. be “required to provide the technical solvency of the work and experience in the Sailing Schools sector“.

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The details of the administrative specifications for the concession of the Sailing Schools.

There it was argued that Whitesand Solutions of Daisee Aguilera was a “company specialized in Environmental Consulting with no experience in the sector”. While Enjoy Watersport was dedicated “to the rental of jet skis, just what we do not want in Formentera. It has been dedicated during the last 4 seasons to the rental and excursions of jet skis from Cala Saona”. In March 2024, with this last antecedent, he returned to claim that documentation and also stated that he should have demanded for its allocation “the names and surnames of the people assigned and their qualifications”. There it is also stated that Whitesand Solutions had provided an alleged agreement with the Sailing Club alleged agreement with the Club de Vela Formentera, which was never that was never managed. “It so happens that the president of the Club de Vela Formentera is my wife and the sports director is me. Obviously, neither the president, nor the secretary, nor I as director have signed any agreement with Whitesand Solutions,” clarified Fernandez at the time.

Formentera Sailing Club.
Part of the offer presented by Daisee Aguilera detailing the agreement with Club de Vela de Formentera.

Therefore, he argued that, “if it had been provided, it would be a forgery“.

Same situation, different decision

On April 13, 2024, Benjamín Burillo Sánchez denounced that “the specifications are not being applied with the same rigorousness to some as to others“, as the analyzed facts reflect. In his case, he had been expelled from the competition for a debt of 30 euros with the Consell de Formentera “for not having paid the road tax of the motorcycle of the current year, I want to congratulate them for their rigorousness in the application of the specifications,” he said ironically. This “rigorousness” collides with the attitude taken in lot 3 corresponding to the kiosk of Cala Sahona awarded to the company Mar y Playa 2 S.L. In the record number 17, on March 22, 2024, it is detailed that this firm “maintains a debt of 120 euros deposit corresponding to % of the material value of the facilities, that is, this amount is part of a municipal debt,” said the complainant. However, this company “is informed that it has a period of time to settle this debt, that is to say, to rectify this problem”, something that he was not allowed to do. Therefore, he stated that “the gentlemen who are part of the Contracting Board of this Consell insular de Formentera have different yardsticks depending on what your name is or what political position you hold or have held in the past.” On the other hand, in addition to reiterating its requirement of the qualifications of the staff (sailing, windsurfing, canoeing and kitesurfing instructors), technical solvency of the previous work done in that area, as well as the corresponding authorization, it made clear the serious breach of Whitesand Solutions so it should have been excluded from the contest. The fact is that, despite having been established as the winner of the tender, it was still looking for qualified personnel, which had been advanced by La Voz de Ibiza. As evidence, it presented the job offer for canoeing and sailing sports technician published on the Info Jobs site.

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Job offer for canoeing and sailing sports technician published by Whitesand Solutions.

“I understand that the company “supposedly the winner” of the tender for lot 10, which should have been excluded from the tender if it did not present the qualifications required to be awarded the contract, is still looking for qualified personnel,” he said.

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