The new concessionaires of the beach kiosks of Formentera’s mega-contest under suspicion in Formentera have asked the Consell for a reduction in the canon that they themselves had offered on the grounds of financial disadvantages to meet the conditions of the specifications. This has been corroborated by La Voz de Ibiza through different sources. This meeting was prior to another in which participated not only the new owners of beach bars but also the concessionaires of hammocks and sailing schools. This first meeting was held on October 17 at the headquarters of Marina de Formentera, convened by Juanjo Costas, the owner of the kiosk that installed a pipe buried in some dunes. At the meeting, the businessman Angel Bustos -now accused by the Prosecutor’s Office for the squatting of the dock of the port La Savina- stood as interlocutor and spokesman for the beach bars, accompanied by his children. Bustos won two of the eight lots of the beach bars through two different companies.
“The specifications are impossible to comply with” because of the administration, said Bustos on behalf of all concessionaires, despite the commitment made in the bidding of the established specifications. For this reason, he raised vociferously that the Consell should carry out an “economic rebalancing“. For the time being, this oral and informal request has not been translated into a formal written claim.
The three points of the meeting
This meeting was attended by the owners of the beach bars:
- Sea and Beach 2 (by Damián Verdera Walker)
- Castavi Apartments (managed by Indeisla SA, in turn managed by Angel Bustos)
- Paraiso de los Pinos SA(Ferrer Catalina Bustos)
- Delle Vittorie(Lorenzo Biancolella)
- Monolisto 2016(Pedro Jesús Redondo Arribas)
- Far away la Mola(Juan José Costa Guasch)
- Ojalá Formentera (Nico Antico)
The only absent owner was Bartolomé Escandell Torres, of the chiringuito Bartolo, the only survivor of the previous concessionaires. As La Voz de Ibiza has been reporting exclusively, of the eight, only one of them would have won if the scoring criteria established in the bases were not modified, changes that were made with envelopes two open, as well as some envelopes with the economic offer.
Apocalyptic scenario
The new concessionaires presented an “apocalyptic “ scenario -according to those present at the meeting- in which only the businessman Bustos spoke, while the rest made their own appraisals. The concessionaires focused on three points. The first one was the communication problems between the Consell and the concessionaires. These also accused that during the season they put “many sticks in the wheel to work”, although the multiple irregularities detected have not yet led to the opening of disciplinary proceedings. In the whole summer, they only had to face a single inspection in which they were asked for the complaint forms, the list of prices and the names of the workers. On the third point, the concessionaires claimed that they had strictly complied with everything they had committed to in the specifications. “What we signed, we fulfilled,” said Bustos. However, the Consell has evidence of non-compliance such as the opening hours, the lack of lifeguards, the service on the beach, the lack of the minutes of replanting.
