This report was prepared by the OECD Public Governance Directorate (GOV) under the direction and oversight of Elsa Pilichowski, Director, and Edwin Lau, Head of the Infrastructure and Public Procurement Division (IPP). It was co-ordinated and drafted by Jacobo Pastor García Villarreal, Senior Policy Analyst in IPP. Claudio Loyola, consultant for the OECD, drafted the specific sections on Chile.
Valuable comments were received from Paulo Magina, Barbara Ubaldi, and Felipe González-Zapata. Editorial assistance was provided by Eleonore Morena and Justine Deziel. Alexandra Le Cam and Nana Shodu provided administrative assistance.
The OECD expresses its gratitude to the procurement authorities of Chile, Colombia, and Mexico: ChileCompra, Colombia Compra Eficiente, and the Ministry of Public Administration (previously the Chief Management Office – Oficialía Mayor of the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit – SHCP). In particular, the OECD would like to thank the National Business Association of Colombia (Asociación Nacional de Empresarios de Colombia, ANDI) for the voluntary contribution that made this project possible. Santiago Pinzón Galán, ANDI’s Vice-president for Digital Transformation, served as the main contact point for the project. Carlos Rebellón, INTEL’s Director for Government Affairs in Latin America was instrumental in supporting the OECD in this project.
The OECD would also like to thank other institutions from the three countries analysed that contributed information to this report, namely contracting entities, control and audit bodies, competition authorities, budget departments, digital government authorities, business chambers, academia, and civil society organisations. Their support was critical to collect all the necessary information for the analyses presented in this report.
This report is part of a series of governance reviews in OECD and G20 countries. The project included the organisation of fact-finding missions to the three countries under analysis during March 2023, as well as a webinar on 24 April 2024 to launch this report, discuss its findings, and share good practices and recommendations with the wider public procurement community of Latin America.
This document was approved by the OECD Working Party of Leading Practitioners in Public Procurement (LPP) on 12 April 2024 and declassified by the Public Governance Committee on 20 May 2024.