Panel SA: Guedes launches tool to help startup sales

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The Ministry of Economy announces, this Monday (21), the start of the operation of a new platform to guide public entities – city halls, states and even the federal government – ​​to make purchases of innovation without legal risks.

Called Cpin (Public Procurement for Innovation) it will function as a kind of oracle. It will be possible, remotely, to guide the manager in the best purchase option (bidding or auction, among others).

From the beginning, the Minister of Economy, Paulo Guedes, encouraged the development of this platform to stimulate the growth of public purchases of technology and innovation.

Today, less than 1% of public purchases refer to innovation. The goal, with the new platform, is to reach 3%, something around R$ 24 billion in five years.

According to Bruno Portela, special secretary for Productivity and Competitiveness at the Ministry of Economy, even with the advancement of the legal framework in recent years, the public administration still stumbles when it comes to buying technological innovations.

“The purchase of technology involves risk and managers are always afraid of making a purchase, because, due to the nature of public purchases, there cannot be this type of risk”, said Portela to the column.

“However, reality is different. There was the approval of the legal framework for Science, Technology and Innovation; the law on startups, and the new law on tenders”, said Portela. “I was the first to make a purchase through these new tools when I brought the Covid-19 vaccine to Brazil.”

According to him, after that, Petrobras and others also made innovation purchases through the new contracting vehicles.

Portela considers that, even so, there is still a resistance that leads to what is called “pen blackout”. That is: faced with the fear of being framed for possible irregularities in a purchase of technology, the manager prefers not to make it.

Julio Wiziack (interim) with Paulo Ricardo Martins and Diego Felix

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