Brazil : Country Procurement Assessment Report
This Country Procurement Assessment Report (CPAR) intends to contribute to a dialogue with the government, on its procurement policy and management agenda, by surveying the existing situation, assessing the situation in light of appropriate standar...
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| Format: | Country Procurement Assessment (CPAR) |
| Language: | English en_US |
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Washington, DC
2013
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2004/03/3575914/brazil-country-procurement-assessment-report http://hdl.handle.net/10986/14590 |
| Summary: | This Country Procurement Assessment
Report (CPAR) intends to contribute to a dialogue with the
government, on its procurement policy and management agenda,
by surveying the existing situation, assessing the situation
in light of appropriate standards, indicating a meaningful
array of issues that could be incorporated into the
government's agenda, and examining the desirability,
and workability of practices that would address those
issues. It represents an effort by the Bank, to seek further
ways to support the reform, and modernization of government
procurement in Brazil. Notwithstanding the constraining
environment imposed by the 1993 legislation, the country
moved forward to modern practices, developing an
Internet-based system to implement the electronic version of
COMPRASNET, unanimously rated satisfactory. Nonetheless, the
current legal framework lays no foundation for a dispute
resolution system for government contracts, where
exhaustively detailed legal provisions, discourage flexible
interpretations, and allow the disqualification of proposals
for reasons that are not substantial. In addition, there is
lack of a normative entity, i.e., a policy-making agency
responsible for developing procurement norms, and ensuring
standardization of documents and procedures, thus leaving a
gap in the procurement function, filled at times by the
legal departments of the agencies, by the Federal
Secretariat of Internal Control, and the Courts of Accounts,
or by other law enforcement units, that are not specialized
in government procurement. Recommendations include the
establishment of a normative entity, the development of
standard bidding documents, the introduction of Web-based
planning, dispute resolution, and bulk buying, and, creating
within the new procurement law, an effective dispute
resolution system for contract implementation. |
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