What Brazil Lei 14.133, de 1 de abril de 2021 — Nova Lei de Licitacoes e Contratos Administrativos (New Public Procurement Law) requires
Lei 14.133, de 1 de abril de 2021 (the Nova Lei de Licitacoes e Contratos Administrativos / New Public Procurement Law) is the unified Brazilian federal procurement statute that consolidates and replaces the prior Lei 8.666/1993 (general procurement law), Lei 10.520/2002 (pregao electronic auction), and Lei 12.462/2011 (RDC differentiated procurement regime) after a transitional coexistence period that ended in April 2023. The law applies to direct federal administration, autarchies, public foundations, federal public companies and mixed-capital companies (with adaptations under Lei 13.303/2016 for state-owned enterprises), and is widely adopted by state and municipal procurement authorities through state-level implementing regulations. The statute is structured across seventeen Titles spanning the procurement lifecycle including Title I General Provisions and principles (Articles 5-13 setting the operative principles of legality, impersonality, morality, publicity, efficiency, public interest, probity, planning, transparency, competitive procurement, environmental sustainability, and economic development), Title II planning (Articles 14-19), Title III procurement modalities (arts. 28 to 32 including the modalities pregao electronic auction, concorrencia traditional competitive procedure, concurso for design and intellectual works, leilao public auction, dialogo competitivo competitive dialogue), Title IV procedural phases (Articles 17-21 including preparatory phase, public invitation phase, bid presentation, judgement, qualification, ratification and signing), Title V contracts (Articles 89-122 including form, duration, modification, performance guarantees, payment), Title VI nullities and appeals (Articles 147-155), Title VII alternative dispute resolution (Articles 151-154 including mediation, conciliation, and arbitration), Title VIII the Portal Nacional de Contratacoes Publicas / PNCP transparency portal (art. 174), and Title XIV administrative sanctions and integrity (Articles 155-163). Key innovations of Lei 14.133 include the dialogo competitivo (Articles 32-33) for high-complexity acquisitions where the administration cannot define the technical solution upfront, the integrity programme requirement (art. 25) for contracts above defined thresholds, the unified Portal Nacional de Contratacoes Publicas (art. 174) as the mandatory federal transparency and notification channel, the explicit treatment of sustainable procurement criteria (Article 11 paragraph III), and the unified administrative sanctions regime with a Cadastro Nacional de Empresas Inidoneas e Suspensas (CEIS) and Cadastro Nacional de Empresas Punidas (CNEP) coordination. The law operationalises Brazil's commitments under UNCITRAL Model Law principles and complements the broader anti-corruption regime under Lei 12.846/2013 (Lei Anticorrupcao) and Decreto 11.129/2022 implementing regulations.
Pillar: Public Sector & Government Procurement · Authority: Presidencia da Republica, Casa Civil, Subchefia para Assuntos Juridicos (Federal Government of Brazil) · Version: 1.0.0 · Last updated:
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- Lei 14.133, de 1 de abril de 2021 (Nova Lei de Licitacoes e Contratos Administrativos) - unified Brazilian federal procurement statute consolidating Lei 8.666/1993, Lei 10.520/2002, and Lei 12.462/2011
- Lei 14.133 art. 5 - principios da Administracao Publica including legalidade, impessoalidade, moralidade, publicidade, eficiencia, interesse publico, probidade, planejamento, transparencia, sustentabilidade ambiental
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