Diagnóstico de dispensas de licitações em Minas Gerais: uma análise fundamentada nos dados do portal minas transparente

Abstract

According to the principle of governmental transparency, society should have full access to the data held by governments. The Court of Audit of the State of Minas Gerais is responsible for overseeing the State Public Administration and should provide information about the bidding processes which are dispensed in the State, through the Minas Transparente portal. In this context, the article presents some results of a research guided by the following questions: What is the adherence of the Minas Transparente Portal to the principles of open data? What type of diagnosis can be made about the waiving of bidding processes carried out by the municipal public agencies of Minas Gerais, based on the information available on the Minas Transparente portal? Therefore, the objectives of the research were to evaluate the adherence of the Minas Transparente portal to the principles of open data and to carry out a diagnosis of the exemption of bidding processes carried out by the public agencies of the municipalities of Minas Gerais, based on the information provided by the portal, from January to April 2017. In order to conduct the proposed analysis, firstly, a model was developed to evaluate the compliance of Minas Transparente portal with the open data principles. The next step was the definition a data model for the diagnosis. Then, a software was created to automatically collect data from Minas Transparente portal. The conclusions reveal that, regarding the adherence of the Minas Transparente portal to open data principles, during the investigation, the portal did not comply with the principle of being processable, free of license and updated. Therefore, it should to be improved aiming at the public interest.