Subsídios para implantação de uma Política Institucional de compras sustentáveis na UFRB

Abstract

In Brazil, the Federal Constitution, enacted in 1988, provides that the contracting of works, services, purchases and disposals by the Public Administration must be made through public bidding, which corresponds to the technical and legal way to select the proposal more advantageously, through an orderly succession of binding acts. Public procurement provides equal opportunity to all interested parties and act as a factor of efficiency and morality in business administration. Bidding is the tool that the Public Administration uses to meet their needs for products and services making it a major consumer. It is emphasized that the environmental impact generated by human consumption is being currently concern of the whole society, emerging the Sustainable Procurement, also called Sustainable Procurement - CPS, as a public policy for environmental preservation. The promotion of sustainable national development is currently one of the three pillars of public bidding, next to the observance of the constitutional principle of equality and selecting the most advantageous tender for the Administration. It is the responsibility of the State to regulate the legal provisions and establish criteria, practices and guidelines to promote sustainable national development, through contracts made by the public administration. The present study is justified by the need to implement strategies to ensure the CPS, mainly within the Federal University of Bahia Recôncavo – UFRB. This study aimed to understand the benefits and procedures for the preparation of an institutional policy of public procurement of sustainable products in UFRB. We conducted a cross-sectional study of quantitative and qualitative, being defined as the study site at Federal University of Bahia Recôncavo, specifically the sector linked to the shopping area, that this institution is the Coordination of Bidding and Purchasing - CLC, and the following demanding sectors: the Coordination of Material and Heritage - CMP; the Agricultural Science Center, Environmental and Biological - CCAAB; and Technology Center in Energy and Sustainability - CETENS. They were used as data collection instruments semi-structured interviews and the electronic questionnaire in a total of 36 participants. Initially interviewed 09 servers, all crowded in the CLC and directly involved in the procurement processes. Subsequently, he applied the electronic questionnaire that was sent to institutional e-mail of the other participants in the sample, yielding a total of 27 questionnaires. After collection, the interviews data were analyzed and interpreted organized in three stages: a) ordering of data; b) classification of data; and c) analysis itself. Regarding the analysis of data from electronic questionnaires, they were processed electronically using SPSS 15.0 for Windows program. The study was submitted to the Ethics Committee of the UFRB (CEP / UFRB), following the scientific and ethical requirements. It was possible to understand the benefits and procedures for CPS deployment in UFRB being proposed as the final product of this research, an Action Plan towards the implementation of a sustainable procurement policy in UFRB. It was noticed a low level of knowledge about the subject discussed in this work, by the servers, confirming the need of conducting CPS with an emphasis on training activities directed to the servers involved. It is recommended the implementation of the proposed Action Plan, emphasizing the aspects related to the activities of training directed to the servers involved in the procurement processes in UFRB, are requesters or buyers.