Sustentabilidade na administração pública: um estudo de caso sobre as licitações sustentáveis

Abstract

This study aims to identify and portray the performance of Public Administration, as a consumer, in protecting the environment, from the study of the reality of the Federal University of Health Sciences of Porto Alegre. Thus, after defining the State’s procurement and contracting procedure – bidding – and presenting its modalities, the topic of sustainable procurement is approached, with emphasis on the constitutional and legal framework that supports its adoption as an instrument of Sustainable Public Management implementation. In addition, the key environmental criteria amenable to inclusion in bidding processes are identified. Being these assumptions fixed, we proceed to a qualitative analysis of bids conducted by the Federal University of Health Sciences of Porto Alegre (UFCSPA) in the fiscal year of 2011, to verify and describe, based on the reality of this institution (the University’s expansion, training of employees, among others), how the standards of environmental sustainability in State’s procurement and contracting processes are applied.