Painel de preços em licitações públicas: o caso de uma Instituição Federal de Ensino Superior

Abstract

Public purchases play a fundamental role in the maintenance and performance of public administration activities; in addition, they act in the economic development of the country, representing significant portions of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Their impacts can be observed in different areas such as: social, economic and environmental. In Brazil, public purchases take place through a bidding process, which is a formal procedure regulated by Law 8,666 of 1993. This law establishes guidelines for the acquisition of goods and the execution of administrative contracts for the performance of services. Another law that permeates the scope of the Brazilian public purchases is 10,520 of 2002, it provides regulations for the execution of the trading session. In summary, the bidding processes are basically composed of sequential and interdependent phases, being: the internal phase and the external phase. Taking into account their importance for the successful conclusion of bidding, this study is intended to investigate a stage of the internal phase of bidding: market research. In a special way, the work analyzes the price panel tool, developed by the Ministry of Planning and Development of the Federal Government, in order to advise public managers at this critical stage of the bidding process, which is market research. In this sense, the study starts with the following question: Has the price panel generated innovations in public purchases? In particular, it is intended to identify if the implementation of this tool has generated innovations in the acquisition processes of materials of a Higher Education Institution located in Minas Gerais. For the accomplishment of this study, initially a bibliographical research was carried out seeking the understanding of the key concepts for the discussion, later the data collection was performed through an empirical research in which were interviewed servers that work directly with the price panel.Among the highlights of this study is the performance of market research, in which the price panel was used in the years 2018. Among the advantages of the system, highlight If you are a generator of price surveys, an efficient purchasing process , in addition, a process of overfeeding prices in quotations made in the market. Already among the drawbacks that have cited them being treated by a relatively new system, it is not fully consolidated in some inconsistencies. Also, at certain times of the day, a tool overload, a software problem such as crashes, a detailed viewpoint, and an incompatibility of registered codes, as discussed in the course of this study.