State contracting and the Posacuerdo in Colombia: An analysis of the Plan for Peace contracts

Abstract

The figure of Contracts Plan of French origin, becomes a contractual typology of special importance in the context of the Peace Agreements and their implementation process in Colombia; given that they constitute a mechanism of public procurement that enables the inter-institutional articulation for territorial development, the participation of communities and territorial entities, becoming a facilitator for the political and economic decentralization of the country. Thus, the Contracts Plan in its Contracts Plan for Peace version, hope to make possible the political, economic, productive and infrastructural reconstruction of the territories most affected by the conflict, as well as the potentialization of its particularities.

In this order of ideas, this study intends to analyze the fundamentals and operativeness of the Contracts plan for peace in Colombia, as public procurement mechanisms in the framework of the post-agreement. The research responds to a qualitative design with an exploratory approach, which offers a solid reflection in which it is demonstrated how the 'Covenants plan for peace', are vehicles of important resources destined to the territory, allowing on the one hand, a new relationship between territorial entities and the national government, and on the other, their territorial decentralization, accompanied by regional development from participation and incorporation