Evaluation model to aid the management of sustainable procurement in Brazilian federal higher education institution: a case study

Abstract

Public Administration is able to use its great purchasing power to develop structural changes in the productive sectors, providing environmental protection and economic social development. The present study proposes the structuring of a multicriteria evaluation model to support sustainable procurement management at the Federal University of Rio Grande. The constructivist multicriteria decision aid methodology - MCDA-C was used, consequently resulting in the development of the evaluation model. This made it possible to identify the current performance of sustainable contracting in the institution and point out its improvement potential, based on the established indicators. The model resulted in 29 performance indicators for sustainable contracting in the institution and, after evaluation, 11 indicators with unsatisfactory performance were pointed out, for which MCDA-C recommends directing efforts to leverage performance, improvement actions were proposed.