At the time of the survey, there was not an active policy or framework dedicated to GPP in Mexico.
However, according to the National Development Plan 2019-2024, the Mexican government is committed to promoting sustainable development, which in the present era has become an indispensable factor for well-being. Likewise, said document indicates the purpose of monitoring online and in real time the money for acquisitions and carrying out mandatory verifications of market prices before any acquisition.
At the time of the Survey and following the Executive Order of November 30, 2018, transferring procurement policy authority to the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit (SHCP), the Office of the Head of the Public Service was actively developing a Sustainable Public Procurement (SPP) project scheduled for implementation in 2022.
Pursuant to Article 31, Section XXV, of the Organic Law of the Federal Public Administration, the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit was responsible, at the time of the Survey, for planning, establishing and conducting the general policy on public procurement regulated by the Public Sector Procurement, Leasing and Services Law (LAASSP) and the Public Works and Related Services Law (LOPSRM). In accordance with Article 32 Bis, section VI, of the aforementioned Law, the Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources (SEMARNAT) is responsible for formulating and conducting national policy on climate change.
Mexico also has a National Climate Change System (SINACC), established by the General Law on Climate Change and aimed at promoting synergies to jointly address the country's vulnerability and risks and establish priority actions for mitigating and adapting to climate change. In this sense, the SINACC serves as a permanent mechanism for concurrence, communication, collaboration, co-ordination and agreement on the national climate change policy in order to:
Promote the cross-cutting application of the national climate change policy in the short, medium and long term among the authorities of the three levels of government, within the scope of their respective competencies.
Co-ordinate the efforts of the federation, the federal entities and the municipalities to carry out adaptation, mitigation and vulnerability reduction actions, to face the adverse effects of climate change, through the policy instruments provided for in the Law and others derived from it.
Promote the concurrence, linkage and congruence of the programmes, actions and investments of the federal government, the federal entities and the municipalities, with the National Climate Change Strategy.
In the area of climate change, the Interministerial Commission Climate Change is responsible for:
Promoting the co-ordination of actions of the agencies and entities of the federal public administration in matters of climate change;
Formulating and implementing national policies for the mitigation and adaptation to climate change, as well as their incorporation in the corresponding sectorial programmes and actions;
Developing the criteria of transversality and integrality of public policies to be applied by the agencies and entities of the centralised and parastatal Federal Public Administration;
Approving the National Climate Change Strategy (ENCC) and the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC);
Participating in the elaboration and implementation of the Special Climate Change Programme (PECC) and the National Adaptation Policy;
Proposing and approving adjustments or modifications to the scenarios, trajectories, actions or goals committed to in the National Strategy and the Nationally Determined Contributions for compliance with the Paris Agreement.