Electronic Procurement Tracking Logbook (Bitácora Electrónica de Seguimiento de Adquisiciones - BESA) originated from the need to promote best practices to reduce corruption, impunity and inefficiency in public procurement. Which largely generated from systematic failures in contracting, generating uncontrolled procurement processes, directing or rigging public tenders and assigning contracts to companies with irregularities, which facilitate the formation of corruption networks to divert public resources through government purchases. Derived from the above, it is intended to take advantage of the BESA system as a public procurement data tool to identify and mitigate corruption risk practices. Carrying out audits in real time, which allow identifying and sanctioning bad practices, making more efficient the control, elaboration and follow-up of contracts and operations of acquisitions, leasing and services of the public sector which will serve as a source of information to identify the method, the subject and the object to be audited, as well as to define the scope of the revisions.

The implementation of the BESA system is through an online computer system that will allow for real-time monitoring, control and auditing of procurement, from the formalisation of the contract to its finalisation, in large volume. It is designed in three stages: 1) The first stage consists of the registration and consultation of public procurement, which is in operation as of 1 October 2021, with the publication in the Official Journal of the Federation (DOF) of the Agreement establishing the mandatory registration of contracts and operations of acquisitions, leases and services of the public sector in the Electronic Logbook of Procurement Monitoring and its Guidelineson. This considering the registration in BESA of contracts whose amounts are equal to or greater than 15.0 million pesos or its equivalent in foreign currency and effective as of 18 October 2021, which represents the supervision of approximately 80% of the annual resources allocated to acquisitions, leases, and services. 2) The second stage corresponds to the monitoring of procurement contracting and the alert system, which will be in operation as of 26 August 2022, with the publication of the reform to the aforementioned Agreement. 3) The third and last stage corresponds to the generation of reports, which is currently under development. The objective of the BESA system is to regulate, make efficient and obligatory the use of the BESA system for the registration and follow-up of contracts and operations of acquisitions, leasing and services of the public sector, with total or partial charge to federal resources, carried out by the agencies and entities of the Federal Public Administration; and state and municipal public entities.

Its scope is the agencies, entities and state and municipal public entities that carry out acquisitions, leases and services, under the LAASSP and its Regulations. Citizens are the main beneficiaries, considering that the BESA system seeks to mitigate corruption by verifying, in real time, the use of federal resources in public procurement contracts, so that they are used only for what they were allocated for. It is expected that in the short term, all procurement, leasing and service contracts made by the agencies and entities of the Federal Public Administration (APF), and state and municipal public entities, with partial or total charge to federal resources, will be registered and monitored in BESA, in order to identify and eliminate bad practices that the public sector carries out during the execution of procurement contracts and at the same time strengthen the powers of prevention, surveillance, inspection and review of the procurement processes carried out by the Secretariat of Public Function of the Federal Government (Secretaría de la Función Pública del Gobierno Federal - SFP). It is expected as well as to implement the interface of the BESA system with other governmental IT systems such as COMPRANET, SAT, IMSS, INFONAVIT, and SICOP, inspection and review of procurement processes carried out by the SFP, as well as implementing the interface of the BESA system with other governmental information systems such as COMPRANET, SAT, IMSS, INFONAVIT, SICOP and TESOFE, which will provide accurate and reliable information.