Zita Aguilera Becerril

Career

Zita Aguilera advises state agencies and private companies on public procurement matters for the execution of infrastructure projects (public works and public-private partnership agreements), as well as for the procurement of

goods and services. She has considerable experience in drafting and negotiating state-to-state agreements, which implement technical assistance services through Project Management Office (PMO), and international contracts, such as International Federation of Consulting Engineers (FIDIC), New Engineering Contract (NEC), and with Building Information Modeling (BIM) methodology.

She also advises on administrative sanctioning proceedings, administrative appeals, government control processes, and dispute resolution and prevention mechanisms, such as dispute boards, conciliation and arbitration.

Professional Memberships

- Member of the Peruvian Society of Construction Law.

- Arbiter of the Arbitration Center of the American Chamber of Commerce of Peru (AmCham).

- Arbiter of the Arbitration Center of the Lima Bar Association.

- Arbiter of the Arbitration and Dispute Resolution Center - Ankawa International (CARD-AI).

- Adjudicator of the Arbitration and Dispute Resolution Center - Ankawa International (CARD-AI).

- La Libertad Bar Association. 1999.

- Registered arbitrator — National Register of Arbitrators of the RNA-OSCE, State Agency for Supervision of Contracts (OSCE)

Publications

- "Los contratos NEC ECC para el desarrollo de infraestructura pública en el Perú," in "Derecho de la construcción y resolución de disputas," Editorial Jurídica THĒMIS, August 2022

- "Las Juntas de Resolución de Disputas en contratos de obra pública: ventajas y dificultades," in "La mujer en el arbitraje," Biblioteca de Arbitraje, February 2022

- "Agotamiento de la vía administrativa y su aplicación en procedimientos administrativos sancionadores de contratación pública," in "Estudios sobre Derecho Administrativo Vol. 2," Law and Society, October 2021

- "Los principios en los procedimientos administrativos sancionadores de contratación estatal," in "Estudios sobre Derecho Administrativo Vol. 1," Law and Society, June 2021

- Co-author (with Juan Carlos Moron Urbina), "Legal aspects of government contracting," in The Essential of the Right Collection, Editorial Fund of the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, 2017.

- Author, "Corruption in Public Procurement," in "Administrative Law as an instrument for the citizen," Memories of Administrative Law VIII Congress, Palestra Editores, 2018

- "The subsidiary application of regulations in public procurement arbitrations," in "Journal of Current Trends in Public Procurement," Gaceta Juridica, 2018

- Co-author, "The Conventional Modification of Administrative Contracts" in "Current Trends in Public Procurement."Legal Gazette, 2014

- "The principles of informalism and material truth in selection processes, analyzed by the Supreme Court of Justice: Dialogue with jurisprudence," Legal Gazette, 2012

- "Risks in public works contracts," Legal News Magazine, Legal Gazette, June 2012

- "Is the State Prepared for D.U. N°054?," Peru Construye Magazine, September 2011

- "Sanctioning Administrative Procedures in State Contracts," Revista Peruana de Derecho de la Empresa No. 69, September 2011.

- "Compendium of Papers of the IV National Congress of Administrative Law: Modernizing the State for a Better Country," Palestra, April 2010

- "Manual of Administrative Training," Gaceta Juridica (First Edition), January 2010

- "Processes of Selection: Are Saturdays and Sundays Included?," Actualidad Juridica Magazine No. 192, Gaceta Juridica November 2009.

- Bulletin specializing in public contracting: Contracting.

- "Commentaries on the Regime of Guarantees," October 2009

- "Decrees of Urgency and the Special Procedures of Selection: When the Exception Turns into the Rule," Actualidad Juridica No. 189, Gazeta Juridica, August 2009

- "New Selection Processes for Suppliers," El Peruano, August 2009

- "Principal Modifications in the Matter of Public Contracting:"

- "Promoting the Execution of Public Works," Revista Juridica del Peru No. 96, February 2009

- "The Indifferent Error in the Proposed Economy," in Revista Juridica del Peru No. 94, Editorial Normas Legales, December 2008

- "Proof of Experience in the Selection Process by Merged Organizations," in Revista Juridica del Peru No. 89, Editorial Normas Legales, July 2008

- "Good Winds in Public Contracting?," in Revista Actualidad Juridica de Gaceta Juridica Volume 175, June 2000.

- "Changes in the State Contract Law," El Peruano, 4 June 2008

- "Implications of the implementation of Administrative Silence in Public Contracting," in Revista Juridica del Peru, No. 86, April 2008.

- "Comments on Directive N° 002-2007-CONSUCODE/PRE Guidelines standardized for the development of evaluation factors relating to the subject of the call to be included in terms of the selection processes for the procurement of consulting services of works," in Revista Actualidad Juridica de Gaceta Juridica, 2007

- "The new abbreviated selection process: Implementation and Effects on State Contracting," in Revista Juridica del Peru Volume 70, December 2006

- "The necessity of the administrative record: Its implications on State Contracting," Revista Actualidad Juridica de Gaceta Juridica Volume 155, October 2006

Zita's articles and opinion pieces have also been published in the official

newspapers El Peruano, El Comercio, Gestion, and La Republica, as well as

prestigious magazines and bulletins focused on state contracting.

Languages Spoken

Spanish

English