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The guidelines for carrying out Service Contracts with Investment in the Management of Green Infrastructure are already available to local municipal technicians and managers in the Guide that has been presented at the headquarters of the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces (FEMP). ), a text prepared in order to facilitate the execution of contracts of this type from Local Governments and provide maximum transparency to the process.
In the text, the result of collaboration between the FEMP, through the Network of Local Governments + Biodiversity, the Association of Green Infrastructure Management Companies (ASEJA) , and the Spanish Association of Parks and Public Gardens (AEPJP) , it is stated The main characteristics of these contracts are analyzed, the issues that need to be considered are highlighted, the legal aspects are specified and the administrative process for their execution is described; In addition, it provides a spreadsheet to facilitate the preparation of the economic report.
In the words of the Secretary General of the FEMP, Luis Martínez-Sicluna , the Guide details the main characteristics of Service Contracts, “especially those with a duration greater than five years, which we call Service Contracts with Investment, to serve of reference and support for the preparation of a contracting file for a Green Infrastructure conservation service in any municipality.” This makes it “a management tool for municipal officials who, with this, can develop better projects and actions to promote green infrastructure.”
In his opening speech, Martínez-Sicluna, who referred to the participation of technicians from City Councils and companies “to achieve an essential consensus for the correct preparation of this type of contracts in Local Entities”; He added that the final result seeks to “make the contracting of green infrastructure management a transparent process for citizens.” The presentation of the Guide "is only the beginning of the journey of this project", concluded the Secretary General, announcing that "in the coming months we will carry out several training courses in which we will analyze in detail its content and answer questions about its application by technicians from municipalities and companies.”
After the intervention of the Secretary General, María del Mar Vázquez , President of the Network of Local Governments + Biodiversity of the FEMP and Mayor of Almería, highlighted the “networking” of Local Entities and said that “we are at a point “an important turning point where the way of planning, designing and managing the territory is changing, within the framework of a new ecological planning.” For this reason, he added, "the FEMP and the Network are committed to continuing to develop tools to provide information and methodologies for the development of the urban and peri-urban green infrastructure of our municipalities."
Antonio Rodríguez , President of the Association of Green Infrastructure Management Companies (ASEJA), has referred to the Guide presented today as the fifth document prepared through public-private collaboration, texts that, in his opinion, have served for the dissemination of the importance of green infrastructure, “which is a much broader term and has a more important background than parks and gardens.”
Finally, Pedro Calaza , President of the Spanish Association of Public Parks and Gardens (AEPJP), has positioned the new Guide as a paradigm shift, “in the vision of what cities are, how we should manage them and how we should conserve them.” , and has pointed out that in the evaluation systems of municipal tenders “aspects linked to innovation, research and the improvement of knowledge should be included.”
The event, which could be followed by streaming, was completed with the explanation of the contents of the text by Enrique Ariza Morales , from Tecnigral, who also responded to the doubts raised by those attending the event.
