A new approach to the quality/price concept in the Colombian public contracting.

This article have the purpose of realizing an approximation to a new concept about the relationship quality/price in our system on public contracting, using as references the high courts from the European Union, Colombian and doctrine that allows to put a perspective from the public contracting, integrating the most important principles o our public administration and contractual and why they necessarily affect the goods providing and public services. The Colombian law 1150 from 2007, in its fifth article, determined that in the selection process in which you have technical and economical factors, the offer would be more advantageous if achieve these three concept's; a) the quality-price elements supported on scores or formulas written on the contract conditions chapter; or b) The elements of quality-price weighting that represents the best cost-profits relationship for the entity. The previous concept implies gtheat the vinculación to the interpretation process of the Good administration principle because necessarily it must be considered the cualitativo aspects that integrates the contract from the performance And value point of view. This way of thinking the public contracting is being contrasted against the Europe Union model, in which there's applied the efficiency principle, searching for a better quality without searching only the lowest price, putting as a priority el achievement of the contribuyen necessities with public contracts and public policy's, putting a plain and relatively high quality standards that the contractors have to achieve in order to aspire for the contract. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]