Pregão eletrônico como instrumento para redução dos gastos na administração pública em detrimento da modalidade convite.

Abstract

Over time the bidding process has been increasingly developed, aiming at greater efficiency to public contracting. Today, the act of bidding is handled under the 1988 Federal Constitution in its article. 37, XXI, as a constitutional principle, his observation is mandatory in public contracting, except as provided for in Law 8666/93 of June 21, 1993, which is the law that currently regulates this device. Thus, it is noted that the bids have gone through great changes over time, since its inception the institute Sailing and proclamation in the Medieval to the present day, and may be cited the case of the Electronic Auction, which is considered a new procedure has advantages in relation to other methods previously applied by the Government. In order to consider the benefits of the Electronic Auction Present research lends itself to analyze whether this new form of bidding has economic advantages in relation to the Letter of Invitation. For both the survey was conducted through a case study in IFPB Campus de Sousa-PB (Old School Agrotechnical) having as basis the Auction Electronics and the Letters of invitation with the element of material consumption expenditure made by the municipality during the 2005, and compared to answer the research question were identified benchmarks and approval of the bidding process, in order to verify the average rate on savings to apply the test of "t" of Student. This statistical methodology identified that although the Electronic Auction have a slight economic advantage in relation to LOI of 7.56% for the samples analyzed, this percentage does not justify the use of electronic trading as the best option to reduce spending by the Public Administration.