Licitações sustentáveis: análise sob a perspectiva legal e prática nas contratações públicas.

Abstract

Discussions about sustainable development have been taking place worldwide over the last decades. From this perspective, several actions are being taken to align current development and preserve natural resources for the future generations, and one of the relevant aspects is the changing in current production and consumption patterns. In this context, considering a state prerogative to regulate as sustainable procurement, its high purchasing power and their ability to stimulate the productive sector, such as sustainable public contracting are manifesting as a favorable feature to positively stimulate consumption habits and, consequently, encourage sustainable practices in society. Based on the foregoing, this research aims to analyze which environmental sustainability criteria were adopted in conducting the bidding processes in a Higher Education Institution. After a literature review to achieve the proposed goal and the determination of the basic parameters for evaluation of the research object, a documentary research was carried out in the Center for Sustainable Development Semi-Arid, campus of the Federal University of Campina Grande, located in Sumé, Paraíba. A qualitative exploratory research was performed through a documentary analysis of bidding electronic trading sessions of the institution for permanent property purchases, consumer goods and services in 2010 to 2020 contracting. The results showed that the institution has adopted sustainability criteria in their electronic trading sessions, but so far insufficient, given the volume of purchases made. So for a consolidation of sustainable contracting in its scope are practical need for more active and institutionalized and, above all, greater engagement of managers with all institutional sectors performing procurement planning, training and promoting connections and exchange of information with the supplier market goods and services.