Government launches Contrata+Brazil

Last Monday, 11, at the Meeting of New Mayors and Mayors in Brasilia, the federal government launched the Hires + Brazil. The platform will allow the registration and hiring of individual microentrepreneurs (MEIs) by the federal government, states and municipalities throughout the country. At the moment, maintenance services and minor repairs may be contracted, which already occur with a bid waiver. In this first phase, the estimate is a potential opportunity for democratization of about R$ 6 billion annually in new contracts.

To participate in the Contract +Brazil the supplier simply has to register using login of gov.br and inform the services it offers. The demands of your interest will be informed to Whastapp's account of the mobile number provided. The first hires will be made by the federal government, but the environment is also open for accession of executives from the states and municipalities.

Cooperation

The idea of the portal arose from a pioneering initiative of the city of Recife, which is being extended to the rest of the country with the support of technology provided by Serpro. At the meeting, an agreement of symbolic cooperation was signed between the technology company of the federal government, the ministries of Management and Innovation (MGI) and Entrepreneurship, Microenterprise and Small Business (MEMP), in addition to the Brazilian Agency for Industrial Development (ABDI), General Advocacy of the Union (AGU) and the Secretariat of Science, Technology and Innovation of the city of Recife.

“O Contrata+Brazil is a response to an important discussion on public accounts in Brazil, it is an initiative to change our hiring seeking to strengthen local suppliers”, announced the minister of MGI, Esther Dweck. According to the minister Brazil has 16 Million Meis, with only 70 thousand registered in the supplier base of the federal government, which represents only 0.4% of the total.

Esther Deweck added that the work of her portfolio is not only to take federal government programs to States and Municipalities, but also to choose good initiatives from other entities and extend them throughout the country. “So, we thank AGU, which guaranteed us legal certainty, Serpro, which will perform the expansion of the platform and Sebrae, for their work of qualifying MEIS”.

Good practices

“All 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 process of technological expansion led by MGI”, said the president of the public company, Alexandre Amorim.“It is a technology that will democratize the access of microentrepreneurs to public procurement, contributing to the dynamism of the local economy. Perform an activity like this, is to make the city pulse”, he evaluated. 

Amorim also took advantage of the signing of the cooperation agreement to announce the Prefecture+Digital, a program of the state-owned technology of the federal government that promotes the modernization and construction of digital services for cities with up to 30 thousand inhabitants.

For the minister of the MEMP, Marcio France, the new logic of government action must be, first of all, proactive. “This initiative of Recife, which inspired the Contract +Brazil, reverses the pattern of the citizen who demands and awaits the action State. Now, the State is looking for the citizen, with gains for both parties”, he explained.