Brazil’s New Bidding and Administrative Contracts Law (No. 14.133/2021) has created an innovative platform that brings together federal, state and municipal contracts in a single database: the National Public Procurement Portal (PNCP). By centralizing hundreds of billions of Reais in purchases from all branches and spheres of government, the platform has the potential to become the country’s best reference for price research, by the public administration, and for public contracts monitoring, by civil society.

Transparência Brasil’s Medicamentos Transparentes project is designed to ensure that the PNCP is fully functional, adherent to the purpose of its creation as determined by legislation, and fulfilling its potential as a useful platform for public management and civic monitoring.

Two work fronts:

1. Action: diagnosis of infrastructure, usability and data quality in order to propose improvements to the systems and structures of the PNCP to the responsible management bodies.

Objective:to support the construction of a platform with quality data that is useful for public management and social control.

2. Action: use the data on medicine procurement published in the PNCP to make reference prices available to public buyers throughout the country through a specialized and innovative civic tool developed by TB.

Objective:to ensure greater efficiency in the procurement of medicines by municipalities, states and the federal government, guaranteeing that medicines reach those who need them most.

The initiative is one of the 10 outstanding projects selected for the Open Contracting Partnership’s Lift acceleration and innovation program, and is being carried out in partnership with the Federal Comptroller General’s Office and the Ministry of Management and Innovation in Public Services.