Compras sustentáveis: um diagnóstico na universidade federal de Campina Grande (UFCG).

Abstract

The government has an important role in the implementation of public policies that contribute to sustainable development. One of its strategies is to use its buying power to acquire goods, works and services with the adoption of sustainability criteria in public bids, to interfere in the change of production and consumption behaviors in markets. This way, the objective of our research was to make a diagnosis of sustainable public purchases in the Federal University of Campina Grande (UFCG), to analyze the aspects involved and the main hindrances in advancing this process. For data collection, we have used bibliographical, documentary and exploratory research, combined. The main findings were that, despite the existence of a legal framework defined, the index of purchases with environmental sustainability in UFCG is still very low, with predominance for the economic variable, and, in some cases, the social one. There is not a clearly defined sustainable purchasing policy in most institutions, and the existing actions are punctual and little planned. A policy of continuous staff training and management decision making is lacking, among others.