Gestão de Compras Públicas: Uma avaliação dos critérios de sustentabilidade nas compras públicas do Instituto Federal do Triângulo Mineiro

Abstract

Aiming at sustainable development, public organizations have been including sustainability in their planning. Besides their legal duties, educational institutions hold the mission to promote the formation of sustainable citizens. Thus, the government seeks purchasing practices that foster sustainability. This work sought to contribute to improving the understanding of issues related to the use of sustainability criteria, and consequently, to assist in the growth of the institution's sustainable purchase volume. Thus, this study analyzes the bidding processes for sustainable goods/services of the Triângulo Mineiro Federal Institute - Campus Uberlândia - IFTM, in the view of managers and servers responsible for the bidding sector, verifying how the sustainability criteria provided for in the legislation are being used. Therefore, a qualitative research was carried out, structured through a single case study with the steps: literature review, documentation review (Sustainable Logistics Plan, Institutional Master Plan, Management Report and bidding documents, in order to verify the inclusion of sustainable criteria), and semistructured interviews with managers and workers involved in the bidding process. Our research results show that the IFTM both in the procedures of sustainable procurement and governance mechanisms related to sustainability is in its initial phase. The research procedure itself took on the role of suggesting improvements, as well as the presentation of a booklet. It is worth mentioning that the COVID-19 pandemic was a significant limitation of the study for on-site sectors’ assessment. As a proposal, for future studies, we suggest extending this research over public workers and suppliers, as well as the evaluation of the processes for contracting construction endeavors.