The undelayable legal reform of public procurement rules in the management models for the urban transport public service in the Autonomous Community of Castilla y León

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is, on the one hand, to analyze the management models that Law 7/1985, of April 2, 1985, regulating the Local Regime Bases, offers to the Provincial Capital Cities of the Autonomous Community of Castilla y León in Spain, a Member State of the European Union, for the provision of public urban transport services. And on the other hand, in line with and in relation to the previous premise, to study how it influences and determines, depending on the form of management of the public service of urban transport chosen by each town council, which articles of Law 9/2017, of November 8, on Public Sector Contracts, should be applied. From the study of these issues, it will be concluded that the level of application of the contractual legislation will not be the same, it will be disruptive and unequal, which requires a necessary legislative modification that equates the application of the contractual regulations, regardless of the model of management of the urban transport public service that the Municipalities decide to adopt.