The Secretaría Anticorrupción y Buen Gobierno (SABG) reported that 2,406 companies have been sanctioned since 2005 for submitting false information to secure public contracts. Accumulated fines total 2,182 million pesos, according to information from El Universal published on July 13.
In 2025, the first year of operation of the SABG, led by Raquel Buenrostro, the agency sanctioned 102 companies, the highest annual figure since 2018. The historical average between 2018 and 2024 was approximately 80 companies sanctioned per year, according to the directory of sanctioned suppliers and contractors. The agencies with the most cases are IMSS, with 475 cases and more than 230 million pesos in fines; the Secretaría Anticorrupción itself, with 320 cases and 172.9 million; Sedena, with 159 cases and 90.2 million; and ISSSTE, which accounts for the largest economic sanctions: 1,246 million pesos against 121 companies, according to El Porvenir.
Among the cases documented by the SABG, six companies stand out for simulating competition between 2021 and 2022 to divide contracts for clinical analysis and blood bank services at ISSSTE. Each received a fine of 100.2 million pesos and a seven-year disqualification, according to the directory. The agency also recorded the case of Obras y Proyectos de Infraestructura, which in June 2021 won a bid from the Secretaría de Marina to build a naval station on Isla Socorro, Colima, collected the advance payment and abandoned the project: a fine of 2.4 million pesos and a five-year disqualification. So far in 2026, the SABG has sanctioned 37 companies with fines totaling more than 21 million pesos.
Sanctioned companies are listed in the directory of banned suppliers and contractors, which bars them from participating in new public tenders during the sanction period. The SABG stated it will maintain quarterly updates to the directory throughout 2026, as part of the institutional effort to increase transparency in public procurement.
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