The planning of public purchases in a Military Organization of RN: barriers and innovation inducers.
Public Purchases. Traditional Planning. Strategic planning. Drivers and Barriers to Innovation. Military
Organization.
In recent years, in Brazil, public procurement has come to be seen as an activity of great strategic importance within public organizations. However, problems related to public purchases still persist in contemporary times, such as the lack of planning or inadequate planning of purchases. At the same time, innovative initiatives help resolve a set of problems in public procurement. Thus, this research aims to analyze the planning of public purchases in a Military Organization of RN, highlighting barriers or inducers to innovation. The research is qualitative, with a case study of a Military Organization in the RN - ten interviews, two questionnaires and document analysis - and content analysis based on theoretical studies. For the literature review and the theoretical foundation of the research, the following concepts were chosen: Public purchases; Traditional Planning and Strategic Planning of Public Procurement; Innovation in Public Procurement; Inducers and Barriers to Innovation in Public Procurement. The main results of the research show that 1) The purchasing planning in the Military Organization researched has some characteristics of the strategic planning, but it is strongly marked by characteristics of the traditional planning, being able to be named as a Hybrid Planning; 2) Planning
is organized hierarchically; 3) Planning is static, based on a diagnosis of the history of previous years or on immediate needs. The results also demonstrate the existence of a set of barriers to innovation in the planning and process of public procurement, the main ones being: 1) Hierarchy and Verticalization: fear of risk and passive leadership; 2) Accumulation of functions, lack of (specialized) personnel and turnover and 3) Excess of rules. At the same time, the results also point to the existence of some drivers for innovation in the planning and process of public procurement, the main ones being: 1) Training as a driver of innovation; 2) Knowledge transfer as an innovation driver and 3) More flexible culture and purchasing planning as innovation drivers. Based on these results, it is possible to contribute to the planning of public procurement, with the reduction of barriers and the increase of innovation inducers in public procurement in the case studied and in other Military Organizations in our country.