Sustainable Public Procurement must follow sustainability criteria in the acquisition of
goods and services by Federal Public Administration bodies, being an important tool
to contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals. The adoption of these criteria is
intended to encourage good Circular Economy practices as a requirement for
environmental sustainability, especially in public organizations. The Federal
Institutions of Higher Education (IFES) play a key role in the development of research
and practical actions, especially to contribute to Sustainable Development. The
theoretical foundation is related to the concepts that lead to the understanding of
environmental issues through the economic sciences, especially based on the
perception of the law of thermodynamics and the dynamics of natural ecosystems,
and their influence on the Sustainable Public Procurement policy. The general
objective of the thesis is to analyze the behavior of government purchases of Federal
Institutions of Higher Education in the state of Pará in relation to socioeconomic and
environmental guidelines, as well as to build a sustainable purchase indicator to
identify and qualify the performance level of IFES in Pará. The methodology covers
the application of quantitative methods to analyze the set of data referring to the
purchases of the IFES in the period from 2010 to 2021 and, for this, the extraction of
data from the biddings was used for the application of a survey aligned with the
revision of the literature and application of Exploratory Factor Analysis and identify
the factors of biosocioeconomic benefits of purchases; knowledge of legislation;
procurement chain governance. The research demonstrates that, despite the set of
incentives in Brazilian legislation aligned with international agreements to achieve the
Sustainable Development Goals, the applicability of the legislation had a restricted
scope due to the low availability of sustainable goods and the limited participation of
public servants in this process, whose engagement is fundamental for the success of
the Sustainable Public Procurement policy.
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