Compras públicas: um estudo das micro e pequenas empresas de um município de médio porte localizado no sul de Minas Gerais

Abstract

All procurement of public procurement becomes lawful if it follows the norms and precepts defined by Law Nº 8.666 / 93 (BRAZIL, 1993), in which it portrays that the bidding process corresponds to the tool used by the public administration to promote the accomplishment of the same. In this sense, the public bidding process is a tool to stimulate local and regional development, since according to the Brazilian Micro and Small Business Support Service (SEBRAE, 2014), public purchases annually move about 500 billion Federal, State and Municipal levels. Thus, if there are incentives from different spheres of government, micro and small enterprises (SMEs) can become major suppliers of the State, since these companies represent 99% of all companies in Brazil. Thus, the general objective of this study was to present the characteristics, advantages and difficulties of the MPE's participation of a medium-sized municipality located in the South of Minas Gerais, in the bidding processes carried out in the municipal, state and federal spheres. At the same time, to raise and describe the opinions of representatives of MPEs in the public procurement processes; Analyze the benefits and difficulties of the process of participation in bidding processes, from the point of view of representatives and propose improvements to the bottlenecks found. The methodology used for the research was of quantitative origin, where it was analyzed measurable data obtained through the application of a semi-open questionnaire with 56 MPE representatives from this municipality to the survey of the benefits and difficulties encountered in the participation of bidding processes. The results indicate that there is an application of the favored and simplified treatment destined to MPE's, besides a good interpretation, by the possible participants that the public entity can influence in the local development, as it is also perceived that the public power has not made the Dissemination of these processes in a broad way, in addition to the difficulties of the bidding entities in perceiving the panorama of these companies. Finally, actions were suggested that could effect and disseminate the participation of MPE's in the biddings as well as the creation of partnerships between the municipality and the existing class entities in the same, besides the insertion of the public entities in the environment of the MPE's, so that They can perceive improvements, based on the difficulties encountered, in addition to promoting the qualification of the managers of the bidders and their stakeholders to improve the understanding of the bidding tool as a lever for development and local growth.