General Subdirectorate of Economic Management
The Sub-Directorate General for Economic Management, attached to the Under-Secretariat, performs the following functions:
The functions of assistance to the governing bodies in the preparation of the contracting dossiers and in the processing of the procedures for awarding contracts and the assistance and support to the bureau and contracting board of the department, as well as the economic-financial processing of these dossiers when it is not attributed to other units and agencies.
The economic-financial processing of grant concession files and agreements, commissions and other legal acts and businesses when they involve the acquisition of financial commitments by the department and are not attributed to other units and agencies.
The empowering and paying functions of the Ministry, except in cases where the actions of a certain unit of the Ministry require placing in them an own paying box, as well as those relating to the Central Cash Unit.
The promotion, elaboration, coordination of actions and control of the agreements of the commissions, as contracting authority, to the State Research Agency for the management of the calls for public aid to R+D+I belonging to the State Plan of Scientific and Technical Research and Innovation that are financed with credits of chapter VIII of the budget of expenses of the General Secretariat of Research.
Deputy Director-General:Luis Carreras Guillen
Subdirección General de Gestión Económica
P.º de la Castellana 162. 28046 Madrid