Um dos elementos nevrálgicos de todo o ciclo de procurement está no desenho das especificações técnicas. Estas nos documentos do concurso de procurement apresentam a definição detalhada do que é que a empresa ou Entidade Contratante – nos casos em que se trata de procurement público – pretende adquirir ou comprar.
Thus, the technical specifications must be clear and objective so that potential suppliers of goods, services or public works contracts know exactly what they must supply in the context of the tender that has been opened. Another crucial aspect that must be included in the design of the technical specifications is that they have to be generic enough to allow several proposals, but also specific enough to define what is necessary for the procurement process to be above all transparent and encourage the participation of as many suppliers of goods, services and public works contracts as possible in public procurement tenders.
The monitoring that the Public Integrity Center has carried out on public procurement reveals that the above-mentioned assumptions have sometimes been overruled, as shown by the example in the box below, taken from the supplement on public contracting of the newspaper Notícias of the 4th of November of 2015.
