P.R. Laws tit. 8, § 560
The Auction Review Board is hereby created to attend to and resolve the appeals filed by persons affected by the decisions of the Administration’s Auction Board and review the decisions in the field of purchasing and supplies delegated to it by the Administrator or the Secretary. The Review Board shall also have the faculty to formulate recommendations to the Administrator or the Secretary with regard to the regulations in effect concerning purchasing and supplies.
The Auction Review Board shall be composed of three (3) persons of the highest moral stature and of known competence and experience in the matters this body will deal with. The members of the Review Board shall be appointed by the Administrator and they shall not have any direct or indirect interest in the businesses or projects that do business with the Administration or with the Department or which are totally or partially financed by the Administration or the Department.
The Review Board shall evaluate and resolve the appeals filed by those persons affected by the decisions of the Auction Board. The affected person may file the appeals within the term of ten (10) days following the date on which the adverse decision is notified. In the case of those other bodies related to the auction procedures whose decisions it is charged with reviewing, the term within which the affected person may file the appeal before this forum shall be provided through an Administrative Order.
In order to carry out its charge, the Review Board may hold administrative hearings, receive testimony, summon witnesses, request the presentation of books, documents and any other evidence, receive and examine it and any other pertinent evidence, regulate the hearings and issue orders pursuant to its resolutions.
Any resolution of the Auction Review Board may be appealed before the Court of First Instance within the term of thirty (30) days following the date of the resolution.
History —Aug. 5, 1988, No. 154, p. 651, § 11; Aug. 12, 1995, No. 187, § 6; renumbered as § 10 on May 1, 1997, No. 12, § 5.