Under the direction and oversight of Elsa Pilichowski, OECD Director for Public Governance and Edwin Lau, Head of the Infrastructure and Public Procurement Division, this review was co-ordinated by Jacobo Pastor García Villarreal, Senior Policy Analyst.
Chapters 1 and 4 were written by Jacobo Pastor Garcia Villarreal; Masayuki Omote wrote Chapters 2 and 6 and Costanza Caputi and Gabriela Villa Aguayo wrote Chapters 3 and 5. Juan Pablo Bolanos contributed inputs and data analysis at an early stage of the project. Valuable comments were received from Paulo Magina and Matthieu Cahen. Editorial assistance and communications efforts were provided by Elisabetta Pilati and Lauren Thwaites. Aleksandra Bogusz provided administrative assistance.
The OECD expresses its gratitude to the Government of the State of Mexico for its fruitful co-operation and leadership. In particular, the OECD would like to thank Governor Alfredo del Mazo Maza; Javier Vargas Zempoaltecatl, Minister of Control (SECOGEM); Rodrigo Jarque Lira, Minister of Finance; and their respective teams, particularly the General Directorate for Material Resources (DGRM). Virginia Arriaga, Head of the Procurement Policy Unit in the Ministry of Control, served as the contact point for the project.
Likewise, the OECD would like to thank other institutions whose representatives were interviewed during the fact-finding missions, namely the ministries of Economic Development, Public Works, Health, and Security; the Institute of Professionalisation of Public Servants of the State of Mexico; auxiliary bodies such as CAEM, JCEM, IMIFE, ISEM, ISSEMyM, and SEIEM; the municipalities of Ecatepec, Metepec, Neza, and Toluca; as well as business chambers and civil society representatives.
Ambassador Sybel Galván, from the Permanent Delegation of Mexico to the OECD, was instrumental in supporting the OECD in this project.
This report is part of a series of governance reviews in OECD and G20 countries. It incorporates information shared during an OECD workshop on market intelligence, award criteria and open contracting. Special thanks to SECOGEM, the Ministry of Finance and their officials for their support in organising and carrying out this workshop. The OECD is also grateful to the peer experts who participated in the workshop: Lars Ohse, Chief Procurement Officer of the Central Purchasing Body of the federal state of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, and Nicolás Penagos, Senior Program Manager for Latin America, Open Contracting Partnership.
The OECD Mexico Centre, under the leadership of Roberto Martínez, and the staff in charge of publications, notably Alejandro Camacho, were instrumental in co-ordinating the editorial process for the Spanish publication.
This document was commented and approved by the OECD Working Party of Leading Practitioners in Public Procurement (LPP) and the Public Governance Committee on 5 January 2021. It was prepared for publication by the OECD Secretariat.