As to Open Competitive Tendering as within Planning: theory and Application of this to Town Planning

Abstract

The author affirms that Open Competitive Tendering during any Planning Process could well be
understood as that which seeks to further the attaining of city and territory planning goals on the part of
the different administrations enjoying territorial, urban or other jurisdiction, by means of calling for open
tendering. This, in turn, is here felt to better the chance of the different agents involved in the achieving
of a germain classification of sought after land and to make the most of existing underpinning
infrastructures such as the underground or suburban railway network prior to any corresponding plan’s
being definitively approved. The process is made possible by a defining of units for competition which take
into objective consideration the existence of non-developable land (land with a high enviromental rating,,
dangerously unsuitable due to natural causes etc) and into account the economic viability of the
conflicting alternatives the same offers along with the overall rationale and coherence of the entire
territory. While following the basic lines as set out in Law 6/1994, of November 15, as to the Regulation of
City and Territorial Planning as within the Autonomous Community of Valencia, it broadens the scope of
the same, differing for example from the Valencian Act in that within competitive territorial planning,
open tendering not only establishes the builder, but also the land that is to be developed along with the
designing of structural infrastructures and major services.