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How to start Petrobras supplier registration

Organize what your company supplies, who will follow up and which information you need before moving forward.

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Start with a practical action

This checklist is organizational guidance from Radar. Check applicable requirements in the relevant family, portal and tender documents.

  1. 1

    Describe your supply scope

    List your main products or services, what your team delivers and the limits of your scope. Use descriptions you can substantiate.

  2. 2

    Assign a coordinator

    Choose an internal owner to organize information, check portal messages and record the next step.

  3. 3

    Separate known facts from open questions

    Record what is available and what needs confirmation. Review the official steps below before submitting information.

The entire registration takes place on the Petronect portal. The official process has five stages:

  1. 1

    Create your Petronect profile

    Country, CNPJ (Brazilian company tax ID), contact person and email. This is the access you will use for everything afterwards.

  2. 2

    Identification details

    Basic and banking details, supply type and — the most important step — selection of supply families.

  3. 3

    Complete the Assessment Questionnaires

    This is where you enter information and attach documents for each criterion (legal, financial, technical, HSE and integrity).

  4. 4

    Check the results

    Monitor the status of each criterion until the assessment is complete.

  5. 5

    CRC issuance

    A full certificate is issued if all criteria are approved, or a partial certificate if at least one is approved.

Warning: two points of no return

Petrobras warns that identification fields cannot be changed once the details are confirmed, and questionnaires cannot be edited after submission. In other words, a wrong family or a wrong document at submission cannot be fixed with one click — which is why checking before confirming matters.

Official source: Petrobras — Stages of the Registration Process (Portuguese)Choosing a family, in detail Document checklist by criterion

The status codes you will see

StatusMeaning
DExpression of Interest
AApproved
QTechnically qualified (technical approval, with financial and/or legal issues outstanding)
RRejected (unsatisfactory score in one or more requirements)
XCancelled

How long does it take?

There is no published official timeframe

You will find ‘3 to 6 months’ on various websites. We checked: that figure does not come from Petrobras or Petronect — it is a consultancy estimate. We do not publish a timeframe as if it were official. The actual time depends on the registration type, the family and, above all, the quality of what you submitted on the first attempt.

Plan your company’s next step

A formal report analyzing families to consider and the identified gaps, plus 30 minutes with a specialist. R$ 397 (BRL), credited if you hire our advisory service. Reports and service communications are in Portuguese.

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