Emir Olivares Alonso
La Jornada Newspaper
Tuesday, October 21, 2025, p. 17
The Federal Court of Administrative Justice (TFJA) ratified the sanction against the companies Grupo de Seguridad Privada Pryse de México y Protección, Resguardo y Servicios Empresariales, so they will continue to be disqualified from participating in public contracts.
This was announced by the Anti-Corruption and Good Government Secretariat (SABG) in a circular published in yesterday’s edition of Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF), where it was detailed that the first firm has a disqualification of a year and a half, while the second for 15 months.
The two companies had requested the definitive suspension of the sanctions imposed on them by the responsibilities area of the Mexican Social Security Institute last September – the reasons were not detailed – but the auxiliary chamber in matters of serious administrative responsibilities of the TFJA rejected their request.
Pryse Private Security Group of Mexico was one of the companies involved in the controversy that last June led to the closure of several cultural venues of the National Institute of Anthropology and History. Together with two other firms, this company was the winner of the federal public tender that the institute resolved on May 30 for the surveillance of its facilities.
Pryse would take charge of the spaces in Guanajuato, Tamaulipas and Zacatecas; However, the protest of workers due to the lack of security personnel caused the temporary closure of emblematic museums such as the National Anthropology Museum, the Templo Mayor and the Chapultepec Castle.
With the ratification of the sanctions, published in the DOFthe two companies will be prevented by the time imposed by the SABG from entering into contracts or other types of collaborations with agencies of the federal public administration, states, municipalities and mayors of Mexico City, for which these entities were urged to “refrain from accepting proposals and/or entering into contracts with the aforementioned companies.”
The TFJA argued that granting the definitive suspension would have affected the social and public interest, since the State must guarantee that services are contracted with companies that comply with the principles of legality and honesty in public service.
