Contrato de gestão: o caso Inmetro

Abstract

This paper aims at analyzing the management contract, as an instrument of planning and controlling, for the Federal Public Administration, relying on the contracts settled among the Ministery of Development, industry and International Trading and the National Institute of Industrial Metrology Normalization and Quality, during the years of 1998 and 2003. At the beginning, a field research was done in order to obtain theoretical support. After that, the contracts settled by INMETRO were analyzed as opposed to its respective Reports of Observation and Evaluation. The research shows that the management contract is an effective instrument if it is carried out according to the legislation. However, during the analysis of the Contracts and Reports of Observation and Evaluation, it is possible to notice the difficulties and limitations related to the observation and evaluation of results as well as the increase of management autonomy. Because of that, there is the need of more effort by the Federal Government so that it is possible to provide the necessary ways to its accomplishment.