Analyst Luis Dávila Colón said on Friday, November 13, on the program En la Mirilla on NotiUno 630, that a warning from the director of the General Services Administration about a failure in the ERP program, along with a $10 million transfer from Puerto Rico’s Treasury Department (Hacienda), reflects the state of the island’s public administration. According to Dávila Colón, a hearing on Thursday of the Federal Affairs Committee, chaired by Carmelo Ríos, raised the possibility that if the program failure, which obstructs the flow of payments, is not resolved by December, the government could run out of essential vehicles, including patrol cars, ambulances, fire trucks and social assistance vehicles.
He said that, according to press reports, the government had been told beforehand that the platform’s problems were serious and that it should not go into effect until they were resolved. He said Hacienda transferred $10 million that, in his view, covers a couple of months of gasoline while the matter is addressed. Dávila Colón maintained that this information comes from officials of the administration itself who told the Legislature, not from political adversaries.
He said the transfer is a temporary measure and described the week as one of the most difficult for the government, with the payments platform among the issues cited.