Civil Engineer with experience in public procurement, contracts, infrastructure project management, execution and supervision of public works, and building maintenance. She is also a Master’s student in Law at the Brazilian Institute for Teaching, Development and Research – IDP.
Littera: Why Manesco?
Daniele Feitosa: It is a firm of technical excellence, with a highly specialized multidisciplinary team across various areas of infrastructure law. After nearly three decades working in engineering — as a designer and manager of public and private works — I found in Manesco an environment that organically unites my two fields of training: legal and technical.
Here, interdisciplinarity is not just a value, but a work method. The firm integrates cost models into contractual clauses, correlates execution schedules with risk matrices, and links performance to mechanisms of economic-financial rebalancing. This coherence between purpose and technique has provided a deeply fulfilling professional experience.
Manesco also stands out for its strength in public law: it structures complex bidding documents, regulatory frameworks, and conducts administrative and oversight procedures with a focus on governance and execution. In EPC and infrastructure contracts, the firm works on developing responsibility matrices, negotiating guarantees and insurance, and creating record-keeping routines that provide evidentiary support for legitimate claims and prevent disputes.
The combination of legal rigor and technical understanding of contracts allows us to transform requirements into enforceable clauses, verifiable schedules, and measurable deliverables — ensuring legal certainty, efficiency, and traceability at every stage of the contractual cycle.
Littera: The field of public works procurement and contracting has undergone changes over the past 10 years. In your view, what are the main transformations? What has improved, and what still needs development?
Daniele Feitosa: The last decade has been marked by significant institutional and regulatory evolution in public contracting. The consolidation of Law No. 14.133/2021 brought a systemic approach based on planning, governance, and risk management. The contracting phases have become clearer, with innovative instruments such as competitive dialogue and integrated and semi-integrated contracting.
Improvements in preliminary technical studies and conceptual designs, the mandatory risk matrix, the incorporation of sustainability criteria, and the expansion of digital platforms have increased the traceability and transparency of processes. The integration of compliance programs and internal controls has strengthened the culture of integrity, while mediation, dispute boards, and arbitration have reduced litigation.
The adoption of BIM and artificial intelligence tools has improved planning and performance monitoring. There is also greater maturity in bid participation decisions (“go/no-go decision”), now guided by risk criteria, capacity, and alignment with the project.
As a result, today there is greater predictability in risk allocation and rebalancing mechanisms, as well as a more competitive, transparent, and efficiency-oriented procurement environment.
Still, challenges remain: improving the quality and consistency of projects, strengthening the technical training of public and private teams, harmonizing interpretations among oversight bodies, consolidating performance-based management, and effectively integrating legal, technical, and financial dimensions into everyday contracting.
Littera: From planning to contract award. What is the firm’s role throughout this process?
Daniele Feitosa: From conception to award, Manesco works to transform the complexity of public contracting into safe and well-founded decisions.
In the pre-bidding phase, the firm conducts opportunity mapping, sectoral and risk analysis, definition of participation strategy (individual, consortium-based, or subcontracting), and compliance verification.
In the analysis of bidding documents, it reviews qualification criteria and technical certifications, evaluates equivalencies and restrictions, supports legal arguments, and formulates strategies for clarifications, challenges, and appeals, backed by technical and evidentiary reasoning.
In the proposal phase, it supports the engineering team by structuring risk pricing and ensuring coherence between the bid price, technical scope, and contractual clauses.
During the public session, the firm coordinates a legal war room, monitors bidding rounds, reviews diligence requests, and manages any challenges.
After the evaluation, it handles appeals, replies, and document reviews, and in the final stage prepares checklists for guarantees, consortium documentation, and declarations, ensuring a safe transition to the contractual phase.
The result is risk mitigation, accelerated processes, and evidence-based decision-making, connecting bidding documents, proposals, and execution in an integrated manner — for competitive, responsible, and sustainable participation.
