A aplicabilidade de critérios sustentáveis nas compras públicas de uma Universidade Federal do Nordeste

Abstract

Unsustainable patterns of production and consumption actually has caused several environmental imbalances. The urgency of change these standards promotes research, debates and national and international environmental agendas. In this context, the Public Administration should not move away from your duty to promote sustainable national development through Sustainable Public Procurement. In this aspect the greater responsibility are from the universities, by virtue of the fundamental role what creates in the social and professional formation of individuals, besides being a large-scale consumer, capable of promoting the offer of sustainable products and services. Based on this premise, this study proposed to perform a diagnosis in the acquisition of goods and contracting of common services of the Universidade Federal Rural do Semi-Árido/UFERSA, through the analysis of its bidding documents, in order to verify the inclusion of sustainable criteria. The survey covered the period from 2016 to 2018, and started from a methodological script created on the basis of existing normative instructions, guides and manuals of sustainable procurement. Also reviewed the institution's Sustainable Logistics Plan, verifying its goals and analyzing the results revealed in the field of Sustainable Contracting, drawing a parallel with the diagnosis of the procurement processes. Lastly, a sustainable procurement booklet was developed to help the insertion of sustainable criteria in bidding documents. The survey is applied to your purpose, being exploratory and descriptive for their objectives, presenting a qualitative approach.