The City Council of San Bartolomé de Tirajana has been forced this week to cancel the competition for the renewal of the artificial grass and irrigation networks of the municipal stadiums of Castillo del Romeral and Juan Grande. It was due to a formal defect reported by one of the companies interested in participating in the procedure, as confirmed to Maspalomas24H by an official source. The Municipal Intervention has prepared a report that there are calculation errors in formal details but that they can affect the final price.
It is expected that the tender will arrive in time to be executed or at least awarded in 2023 the contracting of the necessary works for a total amount of 884.000 euros. The contracting of this service is one of the last to be done in Europe since Brussels wants to ban artificial grass due to the issue of microplastics. The artificial grass on the two sports fields currently shows a high degree of deterioration and wear due to lack of irrigation and its age with exhaustive and prolonged use. The last replacement of the grass at the Castillo stadium was carried out eleven years ago, specifically in November 2012, for 199.943 euros, while that of the Juan Grande football field has never been renewed, despite the fact that it was installed some time ago. almost 20 years (December 2004), with José Manuel Soria being president of the Cabildo and Marco Aurelio Pérez being mayor of this municipality.
The only award criterion for the annulled procedure was the best economic advantage. However, bidders are required to provide a certificate that the new grass intended to expand and improve the safe uses of the two facilities meets all the characteristics required by the Fifa Quality Pro quality seal and the UNE-EN 15330-1 standard. which is the European directive that specifies the performance and durability characteristics that artificial grass sports surfaces used mainly outdoors must have. In addition, as an environmental condition, it was also required that the winning company guarantee the recycling of the replaced grass by reinstalling it in the municipal facility that the City Council decided.
