This report was prepared by the OECD Public Governance Directorate (GOV) under the leadership of Elsa Pilichowski, Director, and the direction and oversight of Paulo Magina, Head of GOV”s Infrastructure and Public Procurement Division (IPP). It was co-ordinated by Jacobo Pastor García Villarreal, Senior Policy Analyst in IPP. Gabriel Bezchinsky, consultant for the OECD, wrote chapters 1, 2, 4, and 5, with contributions by Jacobo Pastor Garcia Villarreal. The latter also drafted Chapter 3. Valuable comments were received from Janos Bertok, Deputy Director of GOV, as well as Kenza Khachani, Sanda Jugo, and Simon Cox, Policy Analysts in IPP. Relevant suggestions were also received from Chloé Lelievre and Mariane Piccinin Barbieri, Policy Analysts in GOV’s Global Partnerships and Justice Division. Editorial assistance was provided by Dovile Bogusyte. Michaela Faux and Deirdre Kiernan provided administrative assistance.
The OECD expresses its gratitude to the Judicial Council of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, particularly its President, Karina Lequizamón, the Plenary, and the Head of the Secretariat for General Administration and Budget (SAGyP), Genoveva Ferrero, for their support to carry out this project.
Andrés Honer, Director for International Affairs in SAGyP, served as the main contact point for the project. His team, Daiana Hissa and Belén Maldonado, significantly supported the organisation of fact-finding meetings and discussions, as well as the collection of information necessary to draft this report.
The OECD would also like to thank other units and departments from the CM and the executive branch of the city government that participated in discussions and contributed to this report, as well as business chambers, suppliers, academia, and civil society organisations. Their support was critical to the collection of the necessary information underpinning the analysis presented in this report.
This report is part of a series of governance reviews in OECD and G20 countries. The project included a fact-finding mission during April 2025;; OECD participation in an International Congress on Public Procurement, organised by the CM and held in Buenos Aires on 3-4 November 2025; and a webinar to launch this report, discuss its findings, and share good practices and recommendations with the wider public procurement community of Latin America, held on 21 May 2026.