Overview
- Lesly Shica said interlocutors told her to lower her public profile, stop smiling and avoid media appearances after she unveiled the changes.
- The overhaul seeks to eliminate directed contracting and increase transparency in purchases that feed more than four million students.
- Suppliers will be required to be registered in the National Suppliers Registry to keep inexperienced intermediaries out of bidding.
- The program will prioritize fresh, nutritious, locally sourced foods such as local bread, legumes, fruit and regulated dairy.
- MIDIS is coordinating oversight with OSCE, the Comptroller’s Office and the Prosecutor’s Office and enlisting community monitors as it faces resistance from interests tied to the previous model, with no perpetrators named.