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The agency handed over public resources to a company that has benefited from monopolistic practices in recent years
Omar Montalvo
Mexico City. – So that the Secretariat of Works and Services of Mexico City (Sobse) that heads Raul Basulto can carry out public events, allocated an amount of 10 million pesos, which were awarded to a company approved by the capital’s public administration, despite the fact that this is a monopolistic practice that has been noticed in recent years.
In the hiring reports of recent months, the Sobse He noted that he maintains a commercial agreement for a total amount of 10 million 199 thousand 76 pesos that the secretariat agreed on in a contract by restricted invitation with the company. LOSEMEX TENT, S.A. de C.V. in document SOBSE/IRN/S/003/2025 that requests the “Provision of logistical support service”.
The public version of the contract indicated that the logistics for the Sobse It must be made up of the rental of tents, chair covers, stands, tablecloths, pagodas, tables, carpets, temples, screens, canvas, chairs, metal fences, as well as screens, audio, lighting and video equipment, although the only events that Sobse holds are conferences in which new works, inaugurations and progress are announced.
Furthermore, the company Losemex Tent to which the Sobseis one of the firms that has benefited the most from the capital’s administration in recent years, since between 2022 and this year, the National Transparency Platform (PNT) records that it has benefited from at least 62 contracts, the majority through restricted invitation and direct award.
In recent years, the Federal Economic Competition Commission (Cofece), an independent institution that was eliminated this year, warned that this type of contracting and the constant benefit to a small number of companies, consists of a monopolistic practice that prevented free competition and facilitated acts of corruption.