Compras públicas sustentáveis : um estudo na Universidade Federal de Alfenas - MG

Abstract

The aggravation process of social environmental problems induce general society to rethink how to act about environmental issues and to search for a more sustainable development. The public sector has a fundamental role on building a world that features more sustainable actions. In Brazil, the sustainability subject became highlighted, although incipiently, with the advent of the Federal Constitution of 1988. Later, the Public Administration Environmental Agenda – A3P was born, classified as a key program in the commitment to strengthen social environmental responsibility in public management activities. The purchases made by public institutions are responsible for the circulation of a great volume of goods and therefore represent a significant impact on environmental issues. For this reason, the sustainable bidding axis of A3P is considered by some authors as the most important. Several actions have been implemented by public administration agencies from the inclusion of criteria considered to be sustainable in their bidding edictals. Thus, the question arises: the Alfenas Federal University has adopted sustainable criteria in its bids, thus contributing to the advancement of sustainability? To answer the question, this work intends to analyze the biddings of the university with the purpose of verifying that sustainable criteria are being included in the bidding documents for the acquisition of goods and contracting services, in the period from 2015 to September 2016, from a methodological roadmap - based on other researches about the subject. After the analysis of its edictals, it was found that the Alfenas Federal University – Minas Gerais features sustainable practices on its purchases and hiring process. Although generally the university has been capable to feature several sustainable criteria on its edictals, at the end of this research some comments and suggestions are pondered, such as the proposal that the university expands the already made practices to a greater number of items, maintaining a sustainable criteria inclusion pattern on its biddings. After the verification of the possibility to make biddings according to sustainable models, it was also suggested that the university could incorporate to its biddings the practices adopted by other public institutions, as it performs biddings for items of the same category.