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The company Arquilab SL , linked to the only elected deputy of Teruel Existe, Tomás José Guitarte, was awarded in 2018 of two large contracts for more than half a million euros in charge of the coffers of the Government of Aragon and the Generalitat Valenciana, both led by the PSOE. The two concessions have been a great boost for the accounts of the company that, in 2017, the last deposited, barely registered 70,000 euros of turnover and significant losses.

Of these contracts, the highest amount corresponds to the "Construction Management (architect) of the construction of the new Teruel Hospital", which was awarded in November 2018 for 289,256 euros , as stated in the State Contracting Platform. Asked about these events almost a year later and after obtaining his seat in Congress, Guitarte explained that the company is owned by his wife and that he was chosen to make "the best and cheapest offer." However, in the bidding documents the linkage is unequivocal: the name of the company appears as "Arquilab (Tomás Guitarte)" .

The valuations contained in the minutes of the hiring table confirm that the offer of Arquilab SL was the cheapest (about 80,000 euros below the tendered budget) and that the economic criterion prevailed over the technician, in which another of the three Tenderers, Estudio Chile 15 SLP, scored better.

The deputy said in mid-December last year that this project "would not condition" the meaning of his vote in the then hypothetical investiture of Pedro Sánchez. This Sunday, the acting president had the support of Guitarte, with whom he had previously signed an agreement for the achievement of a State Pact for the repopulation and territorial rebalancing.

Headquarters of the Valencian Agency Antifraude

Another major contract won by the company, whose main asset is real estate, is the lease of the provisional headquarters of the Valencian Agency Antifraude . At the beginning of January 2018, the local newspaper Valencia Plaza published that the agency had hired the rental of a building owned by Arquilab for 10,000 euros per month . The accounts published by the agency indicate that in March the first installment, corresponding to February, was paid for an amount of 10,200 euros.

Taking into account that almost two years have passed since then, the company would have invoiced more than 220,000 euros to the body that was born as a star proposal of the Botanic Pact, for which the socialist Ximo Puig assumed the presidency of the Valencian Government.

These amounts have a great impact on Arquilab SL, which according to its latest accounts deposited in the Mercantile Registry to which EL MUNDO has had access, records losses in recent years. If in 2017, the latest available data, its turnover amounted to 70,000 euros, only with the contracts cited this figure would rise to more than 140,000.

The income will be higher this year, since according to the figures in the Teruel hospital contract they will amount to 82,000 euros. The amount will rise to 125,000 in 2021 and 101,000 in 2022, when it is considered that the work will be completed.

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