PROJECT MANAGEMENT CONTRIBUTIONS FOR THE PLANNING OF PUBLIC PROCUREMENTS: STUDY IN A FEDERAL UNIVERSITY
Public Procurement. Procurement Planning. Governance. Project Management. Visual Models
Public procurements include the contracting and services carried out according to specific legislation, aiming to provide the institutions with the necessary support for the performance of their final activities. Its function is not only to materialize public policies, but also to promote economic, social and environmental development, considering to involving high financial resources. Despite the relevance, this area faces problems such as lack of planning, which impacts on the quality of the services provided to the population. In response to this fragility, the control institutions have adopted successive measures to assess the level of management and governance of public procurement, considered as still incipient. Continuing such actions, the newly published normative instructions lead to increasingly standardized and planned procedures, guided by transparency, risk management and compliance, which require the adequacy of institutional processes. Therefore, this research aims to develop a framework, aligned with the tools and methodologies of project management, to plan purchases in the context of federal universities. In order to reach it, a bibliographical survey will be carried out to elaborate the theoretical concepts. Regarding procedures, this research is characterized as a case study, with a qualitative approach. As instruments of data collection will be used interview, participant observation, workshop and documentary research. For the treatment of the data will be adopted the perspective of the content analysis, whose stages consist in pre-analysis, exploration and interpretation. Thus, it is intended that this work, after due validations, can contribute to the planning of purchases within the scope of UFRN, as well as being replicated in other organizational arrangements.