Government purchases: current overview and challenges

Abstract

Government procurements are relevant from both the socioeconomic point of view and the efficiency of the Public Administration. Given the current panorama of public procurement in Brazil, under social responsibility and sustainable development, there is a significant reduction in costs to the public treasury, in addition to greater efficacy, effectiveness and transparency of this market, with a tendency to include and strengthen new forms of purchase. Approaches such as sustainable procurement, electronic procurement, and public policies to promote small and micro enterprises (SMEs). In this sense, reflecting on the processes implemented for the management of government procurement in some recent legal and attitudinal framework becomes relevant. Thus, the present article; through bibliographic and descriptive research, using government statistics and multivariate data analysis, contextualized the bidding related to government purchases and trends; demonstrating that the public procurement system in Brazil, within the scope of public management, despite having incorporated electronic purchases in a growing manner, considering the sustainable purchases and inclusion of SMEs has not yet reached the expectations. These results show that there is a need to seek improvement, in addition to the more advanced parameters of private organizations' purchases, respecting the principles of Public Administration.