TRANSPARENCY IN THE PRICE REGISTRATION SYSTEM: a case study at the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Paraíba - Campina Grande Campus
Public Administration; Public Procurement; System of Price Registration and Public Transparency
The study deals with public transparency in government procurement and contracting, tracing an evolutionary path throughout the history of public procurement and its relationship with the history of the Brazilian public administration to the transforming "wave" of institutional character of the New Public Management, evidencing the role information and communication technologies in order to meet the needs of society. The objective of the present research was to evaluate the public transparency in the acquisition and contracting by Price Registration System at the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Paraíba - Campina Grande Campus. The methodology used the Cappelli model (2009) for transparency in organizational processes and the categories of analysis were accessibility, usability, information, understanding and auditing. The research adopted a qualitative approach and the type of research was characterized as a case study. As for nature, the study was an applied research and as regards the objectives, the research was descriptive and exploratory. The data collection used interviews of semi - structured scripts, with servers involved in the institutional purchases of IFPB - Campina Grande Campus, whose data treatment employed descriptive statistics and content analysis. Finally, the study revealed that the acquisitions and contracting by SRP at Campus Campina Grande IFPB can be improved in terms of transparency and pointed to institutional difficulties to be overcome such as: the lack of capacity of the servers in the use of technological systems, impasses and the inertia of the institutional direction in prioritizing the implementation of the Law on Access to Information. The intention is that the study can contribute to the area of public procurement, but mainly to the scientific production about Public Transparency in the Price Registration System and Public Management, given the need for increasingly diligent positions in the treatment of public resources.