Contratações públicas e efetividade do princípio do desenvolvimento sustentável: implementação da política no biênio 2011-2012, pela Administração Pública Federal

Abstract

The public procurements aim the promotion of sustainable national development, which must be economically viable, socially just and environmentally correct. And in the legal dimension, it appears as a constitutional principle, which requires the State, as relevant actor in the development process, acting in the formulation and implementation of public policies for their achievement, which underscores the political dimension of sustainability. The Brazilian legal architecture, aligned with the recommendations of Agenda 21, contemplates the use of government purchasing power to shape the pattern of consumption and production to the dictates of sustainability, by inserting in their procurements, criteria able to promote it. This dissertation aims to investigate the implementation of public policy for sustainable signings by the Federal Public Administration Direct federal public administration, autonomous agencies and foundations (members of SISG) in the years 2011 and 2012. The research is applied, exploratory, employing secondary data collected through literature and documents, the technique of qualitative analysis. As a result, it was found that the sustainable signings are still minor, comparing to the total amount of signings in the period. It was possible do find out that, even being mandatory, in general, the sustainable signings are in a very early stage and focused on environmental aspects. It was recommended for future work, studies on the improvement of the sustainability criteria, the definition of the insertion of these criteria validly in call for bid sand contracts, the development of a methodology to analyze the sustainability as well as training for public servants involved in hiring at all levels of the federation.