The Office of the Comptroller of Puerto Rico (OCPR) announced that contracts related to recovery funds will carry a particular coding, which will help the identification of these agreements in that entity's registry of contracts.
The director of press and communications of the OCPR, Lisandra Rivera Rivera, explained in a written communication that the contractual agreements related to recovery funds will carry the initials CR after the fiscal year in which the contract was granted (example: 2020-CR0014).
The OCPR indicated that this determination was made in coordination with the Central Office for Recovery and Reconstruction (COR3). COR3 is a government entity created to work on the recovery, reconstruction and resilience after the passage through Puerto Rico of hurricanes Irma and María, in September 2017.
This determination requires the Public-Private Partnerships Authority, to which COR3 belongs, to have to add the initials CR in those agreements that will be paid with recovery funds.
Likewise, the Department of Housing, which also manages recovery funds, already includes the initials DR (Disaster Recovery) in the contracts it grants with funds assigned for emergency and reconstruction.
These particular codings or numberings are a transparency measure that had been advocated by organizations that promote clarity and visibility in government dealings and contracting such as the Center for the New Economy, journalists in their individual capacity and through the Association of Journalists of Puerto Rico (ASPPRO).
The Contract Registry Act requires that all departments, agencies, instrumentalities and municipalities maintain a registry of all the contracts they grant and are required to send to the OCPR a copy of those contracts, with a few exceptions.
The OCPR maintains that registry of contracts which the public can access electronically at this address.
Recently the Office of the Comptroller changed its portal so that the public can access immediately not only the registry but also the contracts. The agreements that are not yet available digitally can be requested through email.
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