PUBLIC BIDS AND THE REVERSE AUCTION MODALITY IN THE VERSION OF THE NEW NORMATIVE FRAMEWORK

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the possibility of using the auction modality to acquire common goods and services by state-owned companies, after the new bidding law comes into force. This research used a dialectical-descriptive methodology and a deductive method, taking as a reference the concepts of Marçal Justen Filho and terminologies used by Brazilian legislators and expressed in judicial decisions published on the website of the Federal Supreme Court. This qualitative profile study was supported by the theoretical concepts established in applied social sciences. The addressed problem relates to the revocation of the legal norm that governs reverse auctions, pursuant to Law No. 14,133/2021, and, consequently, the derogation of state and municipal statutes that govern the matter surrounding public companies and mixed-capital companies. The hypothesis of this study refers to the inadmissibility of the subsidiary application of the general bidding law on contracts intended by state-owned companies, in accordance with Law No. 13,303/2016, as per the understanding established by the Federal Court of Auditors in its ruling 739/2020. The preliminary result of this study shows that the regulatory gap opened by the new law on bidding and contracts would render the auction modality in state-owned companies unfeasible.