Last Monday, the 11th, at the Meeting of New Mayors in Brasília, the federal government launched theHire + BrazilThe platform will enable the registration and hiring of individual micro-entrepreneurs (MEIs) by the federal government, states, and city halls across the country. At the moment, maintenance and small repair services can be contracted, which already occur without the need for a bidding process. In this initial phase, the estimate is a potential opportunity for democratization of around R$ 6 billion annually in new contracts.
To participate in Contrata+Brasil,the supplier just needs to registerusing the login ofgov.brand inform the services it offers. The requests of your interest will be communicated to the WhatsApp account of the provided phone number. The initial hires will be made by the federal government, but the environment is also open for the participation of state and municipal executives.
Cooperation
The idea of the portal originated from a pioneering initiative by the Recife city hall, which is being extended to the rest of the country with the support of technology provided by Serpro. At the meeting, a symbolic cooperation agreement was signed between the federal government technology company, the Ministries of Management and Innovation (MGI) and Entrepreneurship, Microenterprise and Small Business (MEMP), as well as the Brazilian Agency for Industrial Development (ABDI), the Office of the Attorney General of the Union (AGU), and the Secretariat of Science, Technology, and Innovation of the Recife city hall.
"O Contrata+Brasil is a response to an important discussion about public accounts in Brazil. It is an initiative to change our contracting processes by seeking to strengthen local suppliers," announced MGI Minister Esther Dweck. According to the minister, Brazil has 16 million MEIs, with only 70,000 registered in the federal government supplier database, which represents only 0.4% of the total.
Esther Deweck added that her department's work is not only to bring federal government programs to States and Municipalities but also to select good initiatives from other entities and extend them nationwide. Thus, we thank the AGU, which assured us legal security, Serpro, which will carry out the platform expansion, and Sebrae, for its work in qualifying the MEIs.
Good practices
"Every good practice has the ability to be reproduced and deserves to be absorbed, and we will collaborate, with all the expertise and technological capacity of Serpro, with this technological expansion process led by MGI," stated the president of the public company, Alexandre Amorim. "It is a technology that will democratize micro-entrepreneurs' access to public procurement, contributing to the dynamism of the local economy. Carrying out such an activity is to make the city pulse," he assessed.
Amorim also took advantage of the signing of the cooperation agreement to announce theCity Hall+Digital, a program of the federal government's state-owned technology company that promotes the modernization and construction of digital services for cities with up to 30,000 inhabitants.
For the MEMP minister, Márcio França, the new logic of the government's actions should be, above all, proactive. "This Recife initiative, which inspired Contrata+Brasil, reverses the pattern of citizens demanding and waiting for government action. Now, the government seeks out the citizen, benefiting both parties," he explained.
