CDMX.- The Federal Education Authority of Mexico City (AEF) asked to reduce by 75 percent the number of computers that are rented for 5 thousand 28 public schools and 77 administrative offices. This, to abide by the austerity decree published on April 23 by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who ordered most units to “not exercise” 75 percent of the budget available for general services, materials and supplies, including money “already committed”.
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TED Tecnología Editorial signed on February 25, 2018 the multiannual contract of 562 million pesos to rent 36 thousand 50 computers to the AEF, the deconcentrated body of the Secretariat of Public Education (SEP), which directly awarded the service, until November 2021.On 20 July, through the AEFCM/UAF/616/2020 trade, the AEF notified TED of the reduction of 75 percent of the equipment to be 9 thousand 12, according to judicial records. The contract, which is paid monthly, was still five months away from 2020 and eleven months from 2021, which means that TED would only be charging 49.9 million pesos for that period, instead of 199.8 million originally agreed.” Optimizing school control in basic education campuses in the CDMX, in addition to consolidating information digitally centrally”, is the objective of the contract. On 3 August, TED filed an amparo lawsuit in questioning the Constitutionality of the Executive’s austerity decree.The protection also challenges the offices of the AEF, which required it to sign an agreement amending the contract; however, that this only includes modifications to increase the number of computers by up to 20 percent, not to reduce them. Gabriel Regis, a 16th District Administrative Judge, admitted TED’s lawsuit on Wednesday, but refused to grant a provisional suspension for the AEF to continue to exercise the contract on its terms.” (The 75 per cent reduction) is due to an extraordinary cause such as the implementation and implementation of measures to combat the Covid-19 pandemic); reason why it is inappropriate to grant the provisional injunction requested,” the judge ruled. In the original contract, TED had to supply 27,000 desktop computers for school staff, 8,000 for AEF administrative areas, as well as a thousand laptops and 50 “executive business” teams, install them on all campuses, and replace or repair them. To do this, the company offers the AEF a computer service help desk and all maintenance, technical support, incident and software update services, among others. You can also read: Live 1.7 million people in extreme poverty in CDMXTard 10 years ratify UN in disappearances
