Sustainable Procurement Bidding: diagnosis of public housing projects and their adherence to the 2030 Agenda in the State of São Paulo

Abstract

The Civil Construction sector has several activities that cause an impact on the environment. In this sense, the influence of this sector is important to achieve the global commitment made official in the 2030 Agenda, making global actions necessary to improve its practices and processes. Thus, governments play an important role in fulfilling this agenda, not only as regulatory bodies, but also as agents driving this process. The present work aims to analyze sustainability in public housing construction contracts in the State of São Paulo. In this way, the Public Authorities' compliance with what is recommended in legislation that deals with sustainability in public procurement was assessed, as well as compliance with the global commitment to achieving the 2030 Agenda. Data were collected from notices published between the years 2016 and 2021 relating to public housing works within the State of São Paulo. These notices were analyzed in order to verify whether there was a broad inclusion of aspects of sustainability to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), in order to obtain a holistic view of how the Notices relate to this topic. The results showed that the inclusion of sustainability in the Notices to achieve the SDGs was scarce, with little reference to sustainability and no reference to compliance with the SDGs.