Compras públicas compartilhadas: uma alternativa para as limitações do setor público nas compras sustentáveis

Abstract

The constant concern with climate change and environmental impacts has changed the concepts and needs of society. As a result, the incentive for sustainable public procurement, which incorporates traditional criteria such as lower value, and others related to environmental and social issues, is more common. The purchase of socially and environmentally sustainable products seeks to boost and improve social groups and products that during their industrialization do not cause environmental impacts. The sustainable procurement procedure simultaneously brings together economic, social and environmental criteria, modifying the modern pattern of public procurement, which is reduced only to the search for better prices and quality, leaving aside important factors such as social incentive and care with the environment. This can directly influence production models and promote new thinking in organizations that stand out for social issues and the environment. In this context, the objective of this study was to present shared public procurement as a solution to the challenges of sustainable public procurement. The study was done through a bibliographical and documentary research. In the theoretical part, the concept of sustainability, the global history of sustainable policies and the introduction of sustainable bids were analyzed. Subsequently, it was verified the limitations of these policies and the laws elaborated by the State for the insertion of sustainable practices. The limitations of public procurement were not only related to the financial part, but also to environmental criteria and to the social issue. For this purpose, ordinances, decrees and legislation have been analyzed, which help national standards. It was possible to conclude that sustainable public procurement has great challenges, among them to reconcile the quality, cost and impact of the good for the environment. As for the high costs of sustainable products, the best way out is to use shared public bids, since when these products are bought in large quantities the price reduces.