ALVES, G. A. Q.; http://lattes.cnpq.br/7327856334004367; ALVES, Guayara Afonso Querino.
Resumo:
Government procurement has come to play a crucial role as an instrument of public policy.
They have become a major concern for managers, as they require more efficient use of public
resources. In this way, the current public administration has the challenge of buying well
adopting measures aimed at reducing costs and product quality. Therefore, the present work
has the objective of analyzing the perception of the servers involved in the bidding processes
of the Federal University of Campina Grande (UFCG) about the purchasing practices adopted
by the institution. The research is classified as exploratory and descriptive, as for the
procedures as bibliographic, designated as a survey and field research, and the approach to the
problem is classified as qualitative and quantitative. The data collection procedure was carried
out by applying a questionnaire, composed of two parts, to the servers directly involved with
the UFCG purchasing sector. The results indicated that respondents consider the constant
updating of the professionals responsible for purchasing important. In addition, they evaluated
how efficient the purchases made by electronic trading and emphasized the importance of
meeting the specifications of the items at the time of purchase, even though there is a
reduction in the quantity acquired. Servers also considered shared purchases as an
economically viable option, reducing the time, costs and quantity of bids, although some
servers were reluctant to buy shared within the institution. As for the accessions made, it was
evident that the UFCG seeks to justify the need to carry out such a procedure, but does not
always conduct price research demonstrating the advantage to the administration. The study
carried out showed limitations on its sample, because it was for convenience, applied to
certain functions in the purchasing sector, ended up limiting the possibility of extrapolating
the research to the totality of servers involved in the UFCG purchasing process. In this way,
future investigations could use broader samples focusing on all the people directly involved
with government purchases.