IFCE-CAMPUS IGUATU’S PUBLIC PROCUREMENTS: ANALYSIS FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF SUSTAINABILITY

Abstract

This article has as its scope the study of the sustainable public purchases’ process of diffusion in Brazil;more specifically, in a federal institution, considering that in the last decade the normative evolution involving such subject has considered the possibility of these, not to consider only the economic aspects when they are carried out. The institution chosen was the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Ceará — Campus Iguatu. All its acquisition processes were analyzed in the year of 2015. The purpose of the research was to analyze whether the institution adopted criteria of sustainability, when the public purchases occurred, which criteria were adopted and how this insertion occurred. The research was descriptive and exploratory, with a qualitative approach. In the end, it was demonstrated that the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Ceará — Campus Iguatu had percentages above the national average regarding the adoption of sustainability criteria in the analyzed year.