La recepción en contratación pública en sede notarial.

Abstract

The Notary Public is considered a public official who is attributed judicial functions, more specifically related to the area of civil law. As time goes by, notaries are granted new attributions in relation to their functions, however, in many cases the procedures to be followed in order to perform the new attributed functions are not clarified. Public procurement is responsible for coordinating and executing all procurement contracts, leases, public works and acquisition of services by the state with external providers. In relation to this, the reception of public contracts at the notary's office can be done in three ways depending on the nature of the acts: definitive and sole reception (the contract has been fully complied with), partial reception (the contract has been cancelled/paused) and presumed or full reception (there is silence on the part of the contracting entity), for a public contract to be considered terminated there must always be a delivery/reception act duly authorized and documented by both parties (contracting entity and contractor). Article 81 of the LONSCP, attributes to the Notary Public the function of executing the reception by operation of law.