Contracts of a company owned by the family of a candidate for mayor of Manaus with the state government soar – 10/01/2024 – Panel

Candidate for Mayor of Manaus, state deputy Roberto Cidade (União Brasil) has been questioned about the relationship between his family’s companies and the Government of Amazonas.

Cidade, president of Aleam (Legislative Assembly) since 2021, has the support of governor Wilson Lima (União Brasil) in the race for mayor.

In 2023 alone, Navegação Cidade, a company that belongs to the deputy’s father, received R$61.2 million. Contracts are signed with the departments of Education (R$52.9 million) and Public Security (R$5.6 million), in addition to Civil Defense and the Military House, among others.

In 2020, a year before Cidade was elected president of Aleam, Navegação received R$8.1 million. The volume of hiring has grown since then.

Another company, whose partners are brothers from Cidade, also had an increase in contracts under the Lima administration: from R$1.6 million contracted in 2020 to R$17.4 million in 2023.

Cidade stated, in a note from his advisor, that he left the “administration of his family’s companies in 2018”, when he took on the position of councilor in Manaus and remains away from any business activity.

The advisory also said that Navegação has been operating in the transportation market for 33 years and provides services to federal, state and municipal public agencies.

“Since 2011, it has been a supplier to the Government of the State of Amazonas. All of the company’s public contracts result from electronic tenders and adherence to price records”, says the note.

The Lima management states that the company has participated in competitions and has been providing services to the state since 2011.

“The government emphasizes that they were also carried out through a bidding process and electronic auction, with the choice of the proposal with the lowest value and technical capacity, as determined by legislation, with the values ​​being based on what is practiced in the market”, says the Secretariat of Communication.

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