OFFICIAL STATEMENT
Barça denies a new controversy over the awarding of the Camp Nou works
Published:30/01/2023 - 17:56h
Updated:30/01/2023 - 17:56h
This Monday, FC Barcelona has issued a new statement denying information that the club had "relaxed" its conditions for the renovation works at the Camp Nou
The adjudication of the works of the Spotify Camp Nou to Limak has caused a lot of stir and a sinfín of controversial informations. This Monday, the FC Barcelona has gone back to deny an information of the newspaper 'The Confidential' that to reference to that the Barcelona entity there was flexibilizado the conditions of the project at the same time that invited to the Turkish company to participate in the 'draw'.
Through an extensive communiqué spread in his social networks, the Barça does reference to the point of "the only company invited was the Turkish constructor Limak. Invited by the own Barcelona club and that besides resulted winning five months afterwards offering 950 million euros for the reform of the stadium. Date of the fold: the same 1 September. The same day that invited to the company deleted the requirements of precalificación".
The club has specified that said information is false and that "in the new bidding the main purpose of the Club was to increase the competitiveness of the process and communicated the possibility to participate in other international companies, like Limak or the French Vinci. The own companies were invited months before 1 September".
Likewise, they have specified that it did not do without the phase of precalificación with the new bidding and that all and each one of the companies that participated had to subject (and surpass) to said phase. The same extended by several months and "his requirements were not only of technical capacity, but also economic. To all those companies that surpassed this phase sent them the fold of conditions in September of 2022".
Change in the conditions?
On the point to the that does reference 'The Confidential' that "in the new fold of 1 September, the conditions that had established in the process of precalificación had disappeared", the club goes back to insist in that it is false and that "the conditions of the fold of conditions of September of 2022 were different to the ones of 2017 and the process of precalificación in this bidding was regulated at all times and controlled, so much intern like externamente".
