The deburocratization of bidding procedures in search of celerity in the fight against Coronavirus

Abstract

This article seeks to study about the reduction of bureaucracy in bidding procedures, which arose with a view to speeding public procurement to face the health emergency caused by the new coronavirus. The public administration must act strictly based on legal dictates, as well as in the occurrence of situations such as the one currently experienced, it is necessary that legal mechanisms be created in order to allow speed in the procedures of public administration to meet the demand efficiently. Through bibliographic research, based on the deductive method, it was found that the legislative innovations instituted by Law 13.979/2020 and its amendments given by Law 14.035/2020, implemented simplified mechanisms in public contracting to face the health emergency, considering the speed and simplicity that add, as a rule, specifically in the contracts that are related to containing the spread of the new coronavirus.