School Food Company in Ponta Grossa Responds to Penalty Process
During the investigations, the Health Surveillance Department temporarily closed a school's kitchen after identifying hygiene issues, such as the presence of cockroaches and expired food
The company Soluções Serviços Terceirizados, responsible for the supply, preparation and distribution of the snack in the municipal education network of Ponta Grossa, responds to administrative processes instituted in August that pointed to possible irregularities in the execution of the services.
The penalties provided for in these processes can reach approximately R$ 8 million, due to failures and breaches of contractual obligations identified by the municipal supervision.
Contract renewed even with process
The information comes in the same context as the publication in the Official Gazette no. 4747, of November 5, 2026, in which the City Council extended the contract with the company for another six months. The new additive provides for the payment of R$ 40,202,066 and maintains the provision of services until May 3, 2027.
The decision comes amid questions about the quality of school feeding and the supervision carried out by the Parliamentary Committee of Inquiry (CPI) of the School Snack, in Câmara Municipal.37
Notifications
What the ICC has found matches what the ICC has been investigating. The contract attorney of the Municipal Secretariat of Education reported 37 notifications for service failures against the company.
Of this total, 5 notifications involved meats, in addition to records of expired foods, inadequate transportation of foods, and discharge of staff in the schools’ kitchens.
During the counts, the Vigilância Sanitária even banned the kitchen of a municipal school after identifying hygiene problems, such as the presence of cockroaches and expired food.
What remains to be clarified
Administrative proceedings are still pending. The City Council did not detail, in the publication, whether the fine has already been definitively applied or if the company is still in the defense phase. The report continues to follow the ICC of Merenda and the developments of the processes in the Municipal Secretariat of Education.
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