Transparência nas compras públicas municipais: uma análise nas aquisições de bens e serviços comuns nos municípios alagoanos

Abstract

The principle of transparency in public management has been gaining importance over the years, becoming a fundamental element for good administration, principaly by stabilishing greater oversigh and efficiency of public resources. The service of this principle allows the participation of the society in the monitoring of the actions of the managers, which can mean a greater efficiency in the expenses and, consequently, the improvement of the quality of the public services affected. According to this point of view, the legislation has been modified, aiming to adjust the public administration to new models and management tools available in the market, in order to develop processes in a more agile, safe and transparent way, as in the case of the bidding modality denominated trading floor, especially the electronic. However, although it hás obtained this legal support, transparency in public management is still far from the reality of most of the managements. Disclosure of information is further hampered by acts relating to public procurement. In this sense, the present research has as general objective to analyze the transparency in the acquisitions of common goods and services in the municipalities of Alagoas in 2018. The methodology adopted was descriptive, when reporting the current situation of transparency of the acquisition processes. This is a documentary research, in which primary and secondary data were obtained through internet bases, through municipal power websites and digital public purchasing platforms, as well as through the application of questionnaires. In the interpretation of the data, the categorical analysis was used. The results show that, although the municipalities have adopted the trading floor modality, in the acquisition of their common goods and services, there is a tendency not to use it in their electronic form, causing a lack of transparency. It was identified that aspects related to internet services, as well as the promotion of legal commerce, are the most used to justify such a choice. Once the diagnosis was made, an intervention proposal was built, containing actions aimed at optimizing existing material resources and migrating the trading floorto its electronicform.