Modernização da burocracia das compras públicas : sistema de registro de preços em uma Instituição Federal de Ensino Superior

Abstract

The public procurement modernization was the main theme of this work, which was performed aiming to analyze the prices registration system in the perspective of modernization of public administration and possible advances in procurement procedures, and to identify possible bureaucratic dysfunctions in the procedures of a Federal Institutions of Higher Education. Besides, we sought to understand the way how these changes in the procurement were realized by public agents at the Federal University of Lavras. The study was performed based on the theories of bureaucracy and modernization of public administration. A qualitative approach, theoretical and empirical, based on a case study was used. Data were obtained by means of literature review and semi-structured interview on an intentional sample consisting of collaborator of Board of Material Management at UFLA, considering those who face transformations of the prices registration system. According to results, the modernization process of public procurement occurs after identifying the existing bureaucratic dysfunctions in the system. In addition, we found that the modernization process contributed to the improvement of procedures, as well as for the creation of parallel management structures, which contributed to the best use of this prices registration system. Therefore, new dysfunctions among new bureaucracy procedures, which had already corrected dysfunctions of previous legislations, were identified.