NOTES ON THE PROCESSES FOR PURCHASING MEDICINES IN THE CCSS IN THE LIGHT OF THE NEW GENERAL LAW OF PUBLIC PROCUREMENT IN COSTA RICA
A new General Law on Public Procurement in Costa Rica will enter into force on December 1, 2022, along with its Regulations.
One of the great milestones of this new contracting or public procurement regulation in the country is the uniformity and homogenization that will exist from its validity. As a rule, all state institutions must follow the procedures and provisions established therein, excluding the possibility of having different public procurement processes depending on the institution being analyzed.
In the case of the Costa Rican Social Security Fund, the procedures regulated in the current Administrative Contracting Law and its Regulations are currently applied, supplemented by the “General Conditions for the Institutional Administrative Contracting of Goods and Services Developed by all the Units Decentralized and not Decentralized of the CCSS)”. Additionally, the institution applies a special procedure to directly import, clear, manufacture, buy, sell, and export medications, raw materials, and conditioning and packaging materials required in their preparation, in accordance with articles 71 and 72 of the Constitutive Law of the CCSS and the “Regulation for the Purchase of Medicines and Raw Materials, Containers and Reagents”.
