After two informal sessions to share knowledge and practices of Public Procurement, held by FORMEM in 2016, it was clear that the entities in the sector face a lot of difficulties in this type of procedure. It was in this sense, and for the entities to become better acquainted with the subject, that the Initiation Courses to Public Contracting were created.
Thus, on January 27, at CERCIGUI’s premises, the first Course on the Processing of the Direct Settlement took place and, for that, FORMEM had the collaboration of Nuno Marques da Silva (from the Portuguese Public Contracts Association) and Sérgio Ferreira (from VORTAL – public procurement platform). The first was in charge of providing theoretical training to the participants, while the second was responsible for making a practical demonstration of how to enter data on the platform.
This initiative, co-financed by the national project financing program by INR IP 2017, had 29 participations from 15 entities and, on a scale from 1 to 5, was evaluated with 4.53, demonstrating a high degree of satisfaction with the acquired knowledge.