A parceria público-privada em bases e arsenais navais: reflexões e lições em distintos contextos nacionais

Abstract

The study addresses the issue of the use of private management in the provision of maintenance and repair services, on warships, in Navy Yards and Naval Bases. The use of private management in public agencies gained momentum with the advent of New Public Management (NPM), which sought to bring more efficiency, effectiveness and economy to public affairs. The research is grounded in theories of NPM, serving as support for the management of Navy Yards and Naval Bases. The research is relevant in approaching a topic rarely discussed in the literature, and also in discussing solutions to gain improvements in efficiency, effectiveness and economy of service provision in Navy Yards and Naval Bases, factors which influence the availability of warships and the fulfillment of its mission. The quest for understanding the practical situations involving the use of the private sector in the provision of such services led the work using the methodology of case studies, investigating the Portuguese and English contexts. The results reinforce the importance of theory as to the reasons to adopt a model of private management in public organizations, as to the use of incentive mechanisms to drive the private party to achieve a better delivery of services and as to the development of a relational contract. In practical terms, the results show some examples of how to implement incentive mechanisms and how to develop relational contracts. These results helped in thinking about a possible Public-Private Partnership (PPP) involving the Brazilian context, especially in the Arsenal de Marinha do Rio de Janeiro (AMRJ), organization of the Brazilian Navy, responsible for these types of services. Thus, the study sought to provoke further debate on the subject, contributing to the search of more efficient solutions in the provision of maintenance services of warships and support in decision making if the use of a PPP in AMRJ is adopted.