Sumario: | This paper examines the provisions in Public Procurement Law that modulate the purpose of the rule that allows participants in a public tender procedure to meet the terms pertaining to their experience, and financial, legal and organizational capacities after the closing date (article 5, act 1882 of 2018). The research reveals how an exegetical interpretation of the rule is having an adverse effect on the public procurement practice. In order to uncover the accurate extent of the rule allowing bidders to amend supporting documents required to participate in a public tender procedure, this work contrasts the holdings in the abundant, but conflicting jurisprudence of the Colombian Council of State, with principles imposing the primacy of the substance over the formal and a teleological interpretation of the law.
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