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Petrobras Best Suppliers Award – 8th Edition

We held, on the morning of October 30, during OTC Brasil, the awards ceremony for the 8th Edition of the Petrobras Best Suppliers Award.

Suppliers were recognized in 28 (twenty-eight) recognition groups and 9 (nine) special categories, which encompass supplies considered strategic and critical for Petrobras.

The winners demonstrated outstanding performance in delivering goods and services, meeting criteria such as timeliness, management, quality, health, environment, safety, and value creation.

Meet the winners:

Change in Supplier Performance Evaluation

Since November 4, Petrobras contracts and orders have begun to be evaluated using a new type of supplier performance evaluation.

This is the Automatic Evaluation of Delayed Goods, which will be applied to all goods supplied to Petrobras.

In this new evaluation, there will be daily monitoring of delivery deadlines for the items in suppliers' open orders, and a performance assessment (IDF) will be recorded (with a score of 1 in the "Deadline" macro criterion) for items with excessive delays (more than 20.5% beyond the delivery deadline).

We presented the IDF and the Performance Concept, addressing the Automatic Evaluation of Goods, in our live sessions with the supplier market during August, September, and October.

Click here to access the live sessions.

For more information, please refer to the Supplier Performance Evaluation section below.

Supplier Performance Index

The Supplier Performance Index (SPI) is a multiple indicator that represents the supplier's performance in providing services and supplying goods to Petrobras, considering four macro-criteria: Deadline, Quality, Management, and HSE (Health, Safety, and Environment).

Each version of the SPI is calculated using a moving average of performance evaluations (selected according to the consolidation method), weighted by the value of the evaluations, and recalculated daily. The SPI scale ranges from 1 to 6 and has three consolidation methods:

Global SPI - The Global SPI presents the consolidated result of all evaluations recorded for the supplier in the last 12 months, weighted by the value of each item supplied in the purchase order.

Family SPI - The Family SPI presents the consolidated result of the evaluations recorded for the supplier in each family in the last 12 months, weighted by the value of each item supplied in the purchase order.

IDF Contract - The IDF Contract presents the consolidated result of all evaluations registered for the supplier in each contract, weighted by the value of each item supplied in the purchase order.

To consult your IDF, the supplier can access the Monitoring Panel on the Petronect Portal, following the path: Petrobras Registration > Evaluation Results > Monitoring Panel.

Performance Evaluation

Each IDF evaluation measures performance in up to four macro-criteria: Deadline, Quality, Management, and SMS. The macro-criteria may have different weights in the composition of the evaluation score.

There are six types of performance evaluations considered in the IDF calculation, which work as follows:

Periodic Service Contract Evaluation - Service contracts are periodically measured by contract management through FRS (Service Record Sheet). After the issuance of an FRS, a periodic service contract evaluation is created.

The evaluation is carried out through a questionnaire with standardized questions and answer options answered by contract management. The weights and scores assigned to the responses are also standardized, not allowing the evaluator to choose a score. The evaluations cover the macro-criteria of Deadline, Quality, Management and, depending on the contract, HSE (Health, Safety and Environment). The weighting value of the evaluation corresponds to the FRS value.
The HSE questionnaire has undergone a review, now including new criteria in order to make the evaluation of our suppliers' compliance with the Human Factors Journey and Petrobras' HSE guidelines even more objective and transparent.

Spot Service Request Evaluation - After the creation of a Spot Service Request, i.e., without reference to a contract, a spot service request evaluation is created.
The evaluation is carried out through a questionnaire with standardized questions and answer options answered by the request manager. The weights and scores assigned to the responses are also standardized, not allowing the evaluator to choose a score. The evaluations cover the macro-criteria of Deadline, Quality and Management. The weighting value for the evaluation corresponds to the value of the order item at the time of evaluation approval.

Goods Delivery Evaluation - For each delivery of goods to Petrobras, an IDF (Individual Delivery Evaluation) will be created. This evaluation will have a score in the macro-criteria of Deadline and Quality, and a value equivalent to the value of the products delivered. The score assigned in the Deadline macro-criterion is based on the percentage of delay in delivery.

Item Cancellation Evaluation - When there is excessive delay in a delivery or the supplier withdraws from supplying an item from a contract or order, Petrobras' contract management may cancel an order/contract item and assign responsibility to the supplier, if applicable. When an item from an order or contract is canceled due to the Supplier's responsibility, an IDF for item cancellation will be created. This evaluation will have a score in the Deadline macro-criterion, and the weighting value corresponds to the value of the order or contract item.

Evaluations by QM Score - Evaluations by Material Quality Score (QM Score) reflect, in the supplier's evaluation score, facts identified by contract management after receiving the goods or providing the service, as well as results from quality audits, in which a QM Score is also assigned to each audited order (for more information, access the Quality Management section in the Supplier Channel). Each QM Score is associated with a previously defined IDF score and affects only one macro-criterion. The value used for weighting corresponds to the value of the purchase order.

Evaluations by BAD - Contracts still in effect, with a start date prior to the adoption of the IDF (October 24, 2016), are still evaluated by the BAD (Performance Evaluation Bulletin) system, to be subsequently converted into IDF. Each issued BAD generates an IDF evaluation, resulting from the linear conversion of the BAD score, without discrimination by macro-criterion. The weighting value of the evaluation corresponds to the value of the measured services covered by the BAD period.

Automatic Evaluation of Delayed Goods - When an excessive delay (above 20.50% of the deadline) is identified in a goods purchase order item, an IDF evaluation will be automatically generated. The evaluation will assign a score to the Deadline macro-criterion, its weighting will be based on the value of the order item, and it will be valid until the item is received or canceled by Petrobras. If a new delivery deadline is granted (reducing the delay percentage to less than 20.5%), the evaluation will be eliminated, but may be generated again in case of a new excessive delay.

To view the details of an evaluation, the supplier can access the IDF Notes section on the Petronect Portal, following the path: Petrobras Registration > Evaluation Results > IDF Notes. The search tool can be used to locate the desired evaluation.

For questions regarding a specific evaluation, please contact the contract or order manager in question.

For weighting purposes between evaluations, all values ​​are converted to Brazilian Reais (BRL) at the time the evaluation is registered.

Supplier Performance Concept

The Supplier Performance Concept has a scale of 1 to 5 stars that simultaneously considers 4 parameters to assign a score to the supplier:

a) Global IDF (composed of IDF and Macrocriteria IDF)
b) Global IDF by Macrocriteria (Management, Deadline, Quality and SMS);
c) Number of high severity occurrences;
d) Number of medium severity occurrences.

To consult your Supplier Performance Concept and its parameters, the supplier can access the Collaboration Panel (Petrobras Registration > Evaluation Results > Collaboration Panel)

Performance Occurrences
Occurrences are facts or events recorded due to the contractual execution and the relationship between PETROBRAS and the Supplier and can be classified as high or medium severity, having different impacts on the Performance Concept.

The expected occurrences are:
a) Quality audit with an occurrence or result (SQI – Supplier Quality Index) lower than 70% - High Severity;
b) COD with a completed action plan without effectiveness or a completed action plan without implementation - High Severity;
c) Contract Termination - High Severity;
d) Serious Material Discrepancy - High Severity;
e) Assumption of Payroll by PETROBRAS - High Severity

Performance Concept Calculation
The Performance Concept calculation considers minimum requirements that must be met in all parameters simultaneously. The calculation is performed daily and automatically by Petrobras' management system, as per the table below:

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The Global IDF and the Global IDF by Macrocriteria will only be considered if the supplier has 6 or more IDF evaluations in the last 12 months.

Performance Occurrences will be considered if they occurred in the 12 months prior to the calculation date.

Click here to learn more about Petrobras' supplier performance management process.

System of consequences

When we identify discrepancies in the fulfillment of technical and contractual specifications applied to a good or service, we initiate a discrepancy treatment process, which begins with the notification of the occurrence of the discrepancy (Technical COD) to the supplier.

The Technical COD process calls upon the supplier to analyze, together with Petrobras, the discrepancy that has occurred. After the analysis, it is the supplier's responsibility to correct the identified failures, determine the root cause of the discrepancy, eliminate it, and propose corrective actions. This entire process is governed by the ISO 9001 Quality Standard and must be formalized through the presentation of a PAC – Corrective Action Plan.

If the actions to address the discrepancy are not implemented, Petrobras may:
  • Seek financial reimbursement for unimplemented corrections;
  • Terminate existing contracts due to poor quality of supplied goods and services;
  • Notify quality certification bodies, which may lead to the cancellation of the ISO 9001 quality certification of the involved manufacturing units;
  • Inhibit suppliers from participating in Petrobras recognition and award processes;
  • Disqualify the supplier from Petrobras' registry.

We apply the following consequence measures to suppliers as outlined in our Consequence System, in compliance with current legislation:
  • Administrative Sanctions: warnings, suspension, administrative fines, and prohibition from participating in bidding and contracting with the Petrobras System.
  • Impediment to participation in contracting processes and contract signing: this may occur due to sanctions applied by Petrobras; sanctions from the Transparency Portal applicable to Petrobras; high Integrity Risk Level (GRI); cancellation of the National Registry of Legal Entities (CNPJ) with the Federal Revenue Service; and precautionary blocking.
  • Disqualification in Bidding: performance evaluations may be used as a requirement for supplier qualification in contracting processes. Suppliers with low IDF may be disqualified in public bids on the grounds of unsatisfactory technical quality.
  • Disqualification in the Registry: the supplier's registration and the status of their families of goods and services may be subject to review due to Low Performance, resulting in technical disqualification (cancellation) of families, which may eventually be reversed. For this, the supplier must provide justifications and an action plan in the Contact Us section of the Petronect Portal, subject to analysis.
 

CASA - The Commission for Analysis of Sanctions Application and Self Cleaning

In situations where a supplier engages in illicit acts or acts that cause or have the potential to cause harm to Petrobras, the Commission for Analysis of Sanctions Application (CASA) should be nominated. The CASA (local acronym is CAASE), after granting the supplier its right to a full defense, may recommend to the competent authorities the application of consequences.

One of the measures adopted in the consequences system is the blocking of suppliers through administrative sanctions, in accordance with Article 83 of Law 13.303/2016. These suppliers are prohibited from participating in new bidding processes and signing new contracts with Petrobras.

The same law establishes in Article 37, § 2, that companies that are administratively sanctioned may demonstrate the overcoming of the reasons that led to the imposed restriction against them, aiming for exclusion from the register of sanctioned companies (self cleaning).

To do so, it is necessary to present all the measures already implemented with the intention of demonstrating such overcoming. In this process, various tools are adopted to verify the effectiveness of the actions reported by the supplier, such as documentary analysis of evidence, evaluation within the scope of other existing contracts with Petrobras, and/or third-party auditing.

The Self Cleaning Handbook will help suppliers understand in more detail how this procedure works