O Desempenho das diretrizes socioeconômicas e ambientais nas compras governamentais das Instituições Federais de Ensino Superior do estado do Pará

Abstract

Sustainable Public Procurement must follow sustainability criteria in the acquisition of goods and services by Federal Public Administration bodies, being an important tool to contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals. The adoption of these criteria is intended to encourage good Circular Economy practices as a requirement for environmental sustainability, especially in public organizations. The Federal Institutions of Higher Education (IFES) play a key role in the development of research and practical actions, especially to contribute to Sustainable Development. The theoretical foundation is related to the concepts that lead to the understanding of environmental issues through the economic sciences, especially based on the perception of the law of thermodynamics and the dynamics of natural ecosystems, and their influence on the Sustainable Public Procurement policy. The general objective of the thesis is to analyze the behavior of government purchases of Federal Institutions of Higher Education in the state of Pará in relation to socioeconomic and environmental guidelines, as well as to build a sustainable purchase indicator to identify and qualify the performance level of IFES in Pará. The methodology covers the application of quantitative methods to analyze the set of data referring to the purchases of the IFES in the period from 2010 to 2021 and, for this, the extraction of data from the biddings was used for the application of a survey aligned with the revision of the literature and application of Exploratory Factor Analysis and identify the factors of biosocioeconomic benefits of purchases; knowledge of legislation; procurement chain governance. The research demonstrates that, despite the set of incentives in Brazilian legislation aligned with international agreements to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, the applicability of the legislation had a restricted scope due to the low availability of sustainable goods and the limited participation of public servants in this process, whose engagement is fundamental for the success of the Sustainable Public Procurement policy.