Compras públicas (in)sustentáveis da Secretaria Municipal de Meio Ambiente e Sustentabilidade de Manaus

Abstract

The growing concern with the environment and the finite natural resources has encouraged a movement for public purchases to incorporate sustainability criteria in bidding. However, there is also resistance from the agents involved. In Brazil, the amendment of Article 3 of Law 8,666/93 and the advent of the new Bidding Law (14,133/2021) established the regulatory framework that ensures that public procurement has purposes that go beyond contracting with the lowest price and should be a tool for sustainable development. The objective of this work is to analyze whether the processes of acquisition of goods and services carried out between 2018 and 2020 by the Municipal Secretariat for Environment and Sustainability (SEMMAS) of Manaus incorporated sustainability requirements described in Normative Instruction 01/2010 SLTI/MPOG, which provides for the criteria of environmental sustainability in the acquisition of goods, contracting of services or works by the Federal Public Administration. Based on the presence of these criteria in the bid invitations, scores were established to evaluate the evolution of sustainability criteria in SEMMAS' bidding processes. The results show that the presence of sustainability requirements and criteria in the public procurement processes of SEMMAS is still very low, even though it is an agency dedicated to promoting environmental policy.