Under the guidance of Janos Bertók, Head of the Public Sector Integrity Division at the OECD, this review was co-ordinated by Senior Policy Analyst Jacobo Pastor García Villarreal, with support from Paulo Magina, Head of the Procurement Unit. The authors of the different chapters include Pétur Berg Matthíasson, Lena Diesing, Jacobo Pastor Garcia Villarreal, Natalia Sandoval Peña, Minjoo Son and Jennifer Eddie. Fundación Idea provided input to the draft of the chapter on implementing robust post-award contract management in Nuevo León. Editorial assistance was provided by Meral Gedik, Thibaut Gigou, Juan Pablo Bolaños and Marissa Colón-Margolies. Edwina Collins, Pauline Alexandrov and Alpha Zambou provided administrative assistance. The OECD Mexico Centre, under the leadership of Roberto Martinez, and the staff in charge of publications, notably Alejandro Camacho, were instrumental in co-ordinating the editorial process for the Spanish publication.
The report benefited from the insights and comments from the staff of the Office of the Comptroller for Government Transparency of Nuevo León (Contraloría y Transparencia Gubernamental), especially Nora Elia Cantú Suárez, Comptroller for Government Transparency in Nuevo León; (Titular de la Contraloría y Transparencia Gubernamental del Estado de Nuevo León) Mariana Téllez Yáñez, Head of the Anticorruption Unit (Jefa de la Unidad Anticorrupción del Poder Ejecutivo); Roberto de la Peña Herrera, Director for Administration (Director Administrativo); Adriana Guadalupe Hernández Martínez. Director of the Legal Department (Directora Jurídica); Carlos Alberto Chavarría Muñoz, Director of Internal Control Bodies (Director de Órganos de Control Interno y Vigilancia); Esteban Ortega Arreola, Director for Control and Audit of Public Works (Director de Control y Auditoría de Obra Pública); Marybel Rivera Villa, Director of Control and Audit for the Central Administration (Directora de Control y Auditoría del Sector Central); Roberto Santos Zapata, Director of Control and Audit for the Paraestatal Sector (Director de Control y Auditoría del Sector Paraestatal); Héctor Horacio Garza Sánchez, Director for Government Transparency and Quality (Director de Transparencia Gubernamental y Calidad); Juan Gilberto Espinosa Mata, Financial Resources Analyst (Analista de Recursos Financieros); Abraham Lizardo Silva, Head of Information Audits (Jefe de Auditoría en Informática); Medardo de Jesús Herrera Moreno, Head of Audit for Public Works (Jefe de Auditoría de Obra Pública); Bernabé Luciano Cruz, Co-ordinator for Public Works (Coordinador de Obra Pública); Jaime Soria Liguez, Co-ordinator of Audit (Coordinador de Auditoría), Soichi Sakay Garza, Audit Co-ordinator (Coordinador de Auditorías) and Ramiro Garza Paz, Co-ordinator of CompraNET (Coordinador de CompraNET).
Additionally the report benefited from input from the Secretariat of Administration (Secretaría de Administración), especially Enrique Torres Elizondo, Secretary of Administration (Secretario de Administración); Hiram Menchaca Villarreal, Deputy Secretary of Administration; Gonzalo Padilla Orozco, General Director for Procurement and General Services (Director General de Adquisiciones y Servicios Generales); Elvia Ivette Ham Rivas, Technical Secretariat (Secretaria Técnica); Alma Delia Cavazos García, Director of Public Tenders and President of the Procurement Committee (Directora de Concursos y Presidenta del Comité de Adquisiciones); Juan Enrique Villarreal Salazar, Director for Procurement (Director de Adquisiciones); Liliana Gómez de Ossio, Director for Human Resources (Directora de Recursos Humanos); Mitzy Anahí Macías Garza, Director for Government Systems (Directora de Sistemas Gubernamentales) and Alejandra Mariana Torres Garcia, Head of Administration (Jefa de Administración).
During the fact finding mission the OECD also met with Edna Sarabia, Head of the Unit for Administration and Finance Co-ordination (Titular de la Unidad de Enlace de Administración y Finanzas) at the Secretariat for Economy and Employment (Secretaría de Economía y Trabajo) and Adriana Quiroz Quiroz, Co-ordinator of Strategic Priorities and Management (Coordinadora de Prioridades Estratégicas y Gestión de Cumplimiento) at the Executive Agency for Co-ordination of the Public Administration of Nuevo León (Coordinación Ejecutiva de la Administración Pública del Estado de Nuevo León). The OECD expresses its gratitude to other institutions from the government of Nuevo León, which also participated in interviews during the fact-finding missions, particularly the Secretariat of Infrastructure (Secretaría de Infraestructura), namely Jesús Humberto Torres Padilla, Secretary of Infrastructure (Secretario de Infraestructura); Juan Guadalupe Uribe Longoria, Co-ordinator of the Public Works Committee (Coordinador del Comité de Obra Pública); and José Eleuterio García Velázquez, Secretariat of the Public Works Committee (Secretario del Comoté de Obra Pública); as well as the Secretariat of Finance and General Treasury (Secretaría de Finanzas y Tesorería General), namely Carlos Alberto Garza Ibarra, Secretary of Finance and General Treasury (Secretario de Finanzas y Tesorería General); Ramiro Adrián Bravo García, Deputy Secretary for Revenues (Subsecretario de Ingresos); Rosalva González Zúñiga, Director for Financial Management (Directora de Administración Financiera); and Carlos Comsille Villarreal, Director for Budget Control (Director de Presupuesto y Control Presupuestal). Likewise, the OECD thanks the Attorney General Office (Procuraduría General de Justicia); the Secretariat of Public Security (Secretaría de Seguridad Pública); the Secretariat of Social Development (Secretaría de Desarrollo Social); the Secretariat of Education (Secretaría de Educación); Health Services (Servicios de Salud); the Institute of Vehicle Control (Instituto de Control Vehicular); Metrorrey (Sistema de Transporte Colectivo Metrorrey); the Water and Drainage Services of Monterrey (Agua y Drenaje de Monterrey); the Municipality of Monterrey (Municipio de Monterrey); the Municipality of San Pedro Garza García (Municipio de San Pedro Garza García); the Municipality de Apodaca (Municipio de Apodaca); and the Municipality of Guadalupe (Municipio de Guadalupe).
Furthermore, the OECD expresses its appreciation to the non-governmental parties met during fact-finding missions to Monterrey, particularly the local chapter of the Chamber of the Construction Industry (Cámara Mexicana de la Industria de la Construcción, CMIC); the Association of Architects (Colegio de Arquitectos); the Association of Civil Engineers (Colegio de Ingenieros Civiles), Citizens against Corruption (Ciudadanos contra la Corrupción, A.C.), How is it going Nuevo León (Cómo vamos Nuevo León), Citizen Council of the Institutions of Nuevo León (Consejo Cívico de las Instituciones de Nuevo León), the local chapter of the Chamber of Commerce (Cámara Nacional de Comercio, CANACO), and Nuevo León’s Chamber of the Transformation Industry (Cámara de la Industria de la Transformación de Nuevo León, CAINTRA).
Finally, this review benefited from the invaluable input provided by OECD peers: Nicolás Penagos, Deputy Director of Colombia Compra Eficiente (Colombia), and Ronan O’Reilly, Procurement Policy Adviser at the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, Office of Government Procurement (Ireland). These peers contributed significantly to the policy dialogue with their Nuevo León counterparts and enriched the Public Procurement Review with their views, experience and comments. Dag Strømsnes, Chief Procurement Officer in Norway at the Agency for Public Management and eGovernment (Difi), chaired the peer review discussions of the OECD Working Party of the Leading Practitioners on Public Procurement on 16 October 2017. The document was declassified by the Public Governance Committee on 15 December 2017. It was prepared for publication by the OECD Secretariat.