The New Tenders and Contracts Law (No. 14.133/2021) has created an innovation that brings together federal, state and municipal contracts in a single database: the National Public Procurement Portal (PNCP). By centralizing hundreds of billions in purchases from all powers and spheres, the platform has the potential to be the best basis in the country for price research by the public administration and for monitoring public contracts by society.

Transparência Brasil’s Medicamentos Transparentes (Transparent Medicines ) project is designed to ensure that the PNCP is fully functional, following the purpose of its creation as determined by legislation, and its potential as a useful platform for public management and social control.

There are two work fronts:

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

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 drug purchases published in the PNCP to make reference prices available to public buyers throughout the country using a tool.

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.

The initiative is one of the 10 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.