Pryse de México security contracts with Mexican federal government, Digi Mart USA News (Jiutepec, Morelos, Mexico): Grupo de Seguridad Privada Pryse de México, S.A. de C.V., whose main shareholder is a 90-year-old woman who lives in a modest apartment above a grocery store and beer depot in Jiutepec, Morelos, has become the Mexican federal government’s preferred provider of security-related outsourcing contracts over the past seven years, receiving nearly 13 billion pesos.
During the administrations of Andrés Manuel López Obrador and Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, the company, despite a disqualification confirmed on August 22 of this year, has received 246 contracts from 28 federal government agencies, with a cumulative amount of 12,911,700,000 pesos. Most of these contracts were awarded by the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS), IMSS-Bienestar and public entities that depend on the Secretariat of the Navy (Semar), such as the Tren Maya, airports and customs.
The arrangement comes shortly after electoral corruption was demonstrated two weeks ago, which led to the removal of National Electoral Institute (INE) head Guadalupe Taddei. Critics note that 28 institutions and the Secretariat of the Navy have delegated major contracting for the security of civilian users at their facilities to a single company.
A public deed, number 58,097 from Notary Public No. 1 of the Federal Real Estate Patrimony in Jiutepec, certifies the company’s incorporation before notary Gregorio Alejandro Maldonado. Grupo de Seguridad Privada Pryse de México S.A.
de C.V. was founded on April 14, 2015, with Silvia Muciño Negrete, Mario Cisneros Luna and Andel Julián Islas Cisneros as partners.
Although Silvia Muciño Negrete, now 90, is listed as the principal partner of Pryse, she does not sign all of the contracts. For example, contract 014-5/2023 with the National Tourism Development Fund (Fonatur) was signed by the company’s legal representative, Salvador Tapia Damián, together with Edgar Daniel Islas Rodríguez and Amanda Viridiana Mata Almanza, acting as attorneys-in-fact, according to documents obtained by XPECTROFM.
The company offers industrial, commercial and residential surveillance services, as well as recruitment, selection, training and instruction of personnel for security and surveillance services covering industrial, commercial, residential, personal and general property protection, and any related security service.
Between 2019 and 2026, its main clients have been the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS), with 5,103,547,043 pesos across 70 contracts, and IMSS-Bienestar, which has awarded it 3,107,145,861 pesos across three contracts.
CAPUFE awarded it 11 contracts worth 2,098,181,372 pesos, the Mexico City International Airport (AICM) awarded 925,296,307 pesos, and the federal Health Secretariat awarded two contracts worth 444,483,487 pesos.
The Institute for Social Security and Services for State Workers (ISSSTE) contracted its services for 246,017,043 pesos across 26 contracts. Fonatur’s Tren Maya project accounted for 185,868,360 pesos across seven contracts, and the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) for 158,711,545 pesos.
Fonatur itself accounts for 150,124,196 pesos across 29 contracts, the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN) for 146,451,912 pesos across 15 contracts, and the National Institute of Neurology and Neurosurgery (INNN) for 108,867,201 pesos across three contracts, among other government entities.
No contracts with the Mexican government are recorded before 2019, during the administration of Enrique Peña Nieto, but the company won hundreds of tenders after López Obrador took office, with 26 government agencies as clients.
The contracts have been awarded despite three disqualifications involving different government agencies, identified by the Secretariat of Good Government and Anti-Corruption (SABG) following complaints from internal control bodies at IMSS and the AICM, and investigations involving INAH.
The current scandal over irregular INE contracts under Guadalupe Taddei involves amounts between 1,450 and 2,400 million pesos with companies linked to José Alfredo Hernández Casillas, while the total cash payments to Pryse are six times greater.
According to data from the National Transparency Platform and Compras MX (formerly Compranet), Grupo de Seguridad Privada Pryse de México saw exponential growth beginning in 2019, rising from five contracts in 2019 to 119 contracts awarded in 2025, worth more than 12 billion pesos.
The Superior Audit Office of the Federation (ASF) began in 2024 a review of accounts for 2023 resources, which includes contracts with Grupo de Seguridad Privada Pryse de México. The ASF reviewed Fonatur contracts worth 116,853,000 pesos and audited contracts with IMSS.
The SABG ordered the Internal Control Body (OIC) of the AICM to review two tenders for security and surveillance at Terminal 2.
The AICM’s OIC resolved to reissue the results of two tenders in which Pryse and its partner companies charged more than 700 million pesos, while another company offered the same services for 593 million pesos, a difference of nearly 300 million pesos.
According to file SAN/015/2025, after audits, Pryse was disqualified for 12 months in September 2025.
On December 8, 2025, the Sixteenth District Court in Administrative Matters, presided over by judge Gabriel Regis López, granted a definitive suspension of the disqualification in amparo case 2080/2025. The Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF) published the ruling on December 18.
This allowed Pryse to participate in another health-sector tender, which opened on December 19, one day after the amparo ruling was published in the DOF.
One week later, on December 26, the company won IMSS tender LA-50-GYR-050GYR019-N-213-2025 for 1,334,424,383 pesos including VAT, in a joint bid with Protección, Resguardo y Servicios Empresariales S.A. de C.V.
and Multisistemas Uribe S.A. de C.V.
Two of the three legal actions brought by different government bodies, cases 2080/2025 and 435/2026, were assigned to the same judge, which is uncommon.
Case 435/2026 concerns a lawsuit against the AICM OIC resolution ordering the reissue of two public procurement procedures. In case 2080/2025, the judge granted two definitive suspensions temporarily preventing enforcement of the disqualifications related to IMSS.
On May 22, 2026, the Federal Tribunal of Administrative Justice (TFJA) confirmed the one-year disqualification and a fine of 701,000 pesos in the AICM case, revoking judge Regis López’s ruling.
With this TFJA revocation of the Regis López ruling, Pryse’s participation and that of its partner companies in tender LA-50-GYR-050GYR019-N-213-2025 remains within the framework of illegality, according to the report.
Despite the sanctions and irregularities, the company is expected next Wednesday to seek a contract with the National Port System Administration (ASIPONA) in Veracruz.
The tender is national electronic public tender No. LA-13-J3E-013J3E001-N-165-2026, covering payment for “surveillance services for the administrative building and operational areas of the National Port System Administration Veracruz S.A.
de C.V.”
The contract for such services is estimated at roughly 646 million pesos.
