This review of the Mexican Federal e-Procurement system, CompraNet, assesses the system’s ability to ensure that public procurement in Mexico is efficient, effective, transparent and accountable.

This review of the Mexican Federal e-Procurement system, CompraNet, assesses the system’s ability to ensure that public procurement in Mexico is efficient, effective, transparent and accountable. It measures CompraNet’s scope, functionality and use against global trends in e-procurement in order to guide its future development. The report includes input from key stakeholder groups such as contracting authorities, suppliers and civil society. It also identifies the supporting mechanisms such as legislation, policy, training, and infrastructure, that are required for the system to be successful.

This review of the Mexican Federal e-Procurement system, CompraNet, assesses the system’s ability to ensure that public procurement in Mexico is efficient, effective, transparent and accountable. It measures CompraNet’s scope, functionality and use against global trends in e-procurement in order to guide its future development. The report includes input from key stakeholder groups such as contracting authorities, suppliers and civil society. It also identifies the supporting mechanisms such as legislation, policy, training, and infrastructure, that are required for the system to be successful.

The World Bank carried out the first country procurement assessment review (CPAR) jointly with the Government in 2001, focusing on the features and performance of the federal procurement system. Based on the action plan included in the 2001 CPAR, the government reformed federal procurement laws and regulations in 2005 and furthered the development of Government Procurement Electronic System (COMPRANET), the federal government's electronic procurement system. The dialogue between the government and the banks intensified in early 2007 immediately after President Felipe Calderon took office. The key objectives of the new administration, included in the 2007-12 National Development Plan are: (a) State Security and Rights, (b) economic competitiveness and employment generation, (c) equity of opportunity, (d) environmental sustainability, and (e) effective democracy and responsible foreign policy. The plan establishes ten objectives to be attained, several of which are closely linked to the efficiency and transparency of the procurement system, namely, fostering a competitive economy, reducing poverty, promoting civil society participation, promoting environmental sustainability, and promoting democracy through the legal and ethical exercise of power. The new administration gives high priority to improving public procurement to facilitate the implementation of its agenda and asked the banks to help in carrying out a new review of the system. The government's objectives with respect to public sector procurement are twofold. First, the government is interested in identifying ways in which the procurement system can be improved to better manage resources and create fiscal space through savings and increased efficiency of processes. Second, the government intends to assess whether the procurement system is aligned with the administration's strategic objectives and, if not, what changes are required.

This review analyses the public procurement system, processes and tools applied in the State of Mexico, the biggest federal entity in the country in terms of population. It assesses the extent of centralisation of the procurement function, its implications and areas of opportunity to reap the benefits of such strategy.

This thesis analyzes the problem of corruption in the Mexican government procurement system, aiming to provide a mix of legal and policy solutions to combat and prevent it. Comparing the policies and laws that make up the regulatory framework of public procurement in Canada and Mexico, this study seeks to extract the best practices that can improve the Mexican system. This text illuminates how the weaknesses within Mexico's procurement system has provoked the current exploitation of alternative procurement methods (known as "adjudicación directa" and "invitación a cuando menos tres personas") to embezzle public resources through fictitious contract awards. Although we have seen a tendency towards including requirements for "transparency" and "accountability" into Mexican procurement law, this on its own is insufficient to combat corruption. Consequently, I argue that procurement units have to enhance these transparency policies by disclosing the rationale behind every procurement and contract award prior to the disbursement of the resources; having competition as the maximum principle to fulfill while doing so. This will allow auditing bodies (and Mexican citizens) to scrutinize the rationale behind these disbursements. The Public Function Secretary could oversee this process to validate the legality and the social benefit justifications claimed by the procurement units prior to utilizing alternative procurement methods.

This report on Mexico’s state-owned oil company PEMEX is part of a series of OECD reviews of Mexico’s procurement institutions.

This review provides a comprehensive assessment of Mexico's IMSS procurement strategies, systems and processes and proposes a roadmap for the reform of its procurement function.

Building on the 2008 OECD Principles for Enhancing Integrity in Public Procurement and good practices of similar organisations in other OECD countries, the review provides a comprehensive assessment of ISSSTE's procurement strategies, systems and processes.

This review highlights achievements of the Mexican Institute of Social Security (Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, IMSS) in a number of areas – human resources, technological capacities and relations with suppliers – previously identified by the OECD as pivotal for the successful reform of IMSS