Compras públicas: um estudo na Universidade Federal de Campina Grande.

Abstract

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.