Territorium Life, the firm contracted by the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) to oversee the online admissions exam for the 2026-2027 cycle, assigned one supervisor per 150 applicants, the maximum ratio permitted under the contract itself, valued at up to 101.7 million pesos, according to the bidding document obtained by El Universal on July 29.
The contract required the company to deploy real-time monitoring using artificial intelligence algorithms to detect electronic devices, the presence of third parties, and irregular conduct during the exam, and to store 100 percent of all audio, images, and video from every applicant, accessible within no more than two seconds. Remote proctoring was the central control mechanism in the university's first fully online admissions exam, whose results triggered student protests outside the Rectoría tower after enrollment was suspended on July 24.
According to Aristegui Noticias, Territorium Life, founded in Monterrey in 2012 by Carlos Guillermo Elizondo Ancer and Gerardo de Jesús Sáenz González, requested a hearing on July 29 before the Technical Commission established by UNAM one day earlier, in order to present technical evidence of its platform's performance directly. The company maintained that the system operated as intended and served more than 10,000 simultaneous participants per session, though it noted that the integrity of an assessment also depends on the academic security of the exam itself, including the rotation of test items between sessions. The contract includes a bond of 10 percent of the maximum contract value, equivalent to 10.1 million pesos, applicable in the event of non-compliance.
The Technical Commission, led by Eduardo Bárzana García, stated that it will issue a recommendation within the same week, while the company awaits a hearing to present its technical evidence. UNAM has suspended document submission and enrollment for applicants admitted to the 2026-2027 cycle since July 24.
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