In Latin America, government security documents are subject to public tenders. However, many of these tenders include ambiguous or non-existent specifications, which hinder genuine competition among bidders and compromise the effectiveness of document security. We have analyzed a set of real tenders that clearly illustrate this issue, revealing non-existent security measures, security features with unclear specifications, and some security features that require significant development time and prevent the timely submission of samples for evaluation, among other issues. This raises questions such as: Who defines the security features of the documents to be tendered? Do institutions have experts who suggest these security measures? Do the documents have adequate security measures for fraud prevention and combating fraud?