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Public Procurement, Brazil

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Government procurement; Public bidding

Introduction

Public procurement is one of the most important government economic activities (Thai 2001), considering the values involved in this activity. In 2015, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (or OECD) member countries purchased an average of 13.8% of their gross domestic product.

However, the importance of public procurement is not limited to the amount of resources involved in public contracting, nor to the number of procurement processes performed. Public procurement has fulfilled different roles, from the operationalization of the supply of goods and services to state activities, to the implementation of strategic objectives of governments, which go beyond the economic objectives (value for money) by including social objectives and (public value).

In this way, a multiplicity of arrangements is created in public purchases, with a view to making more efficient purchases. The search for such efficiency is an...

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  1. University of Brasilia, Brasília, Brazil

    Caio César de Medeiros-Costa

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  1. Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, USA

    Ali Farazmand

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de Medeiros-Costa, C.C. (2019). Public Procurement, Brazil. In: Farazmand, A. (eds) Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_3774-1

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