Start with a practical action
This checklist is organizational guidance from Radar. Check applicable requirements in the relevant family, portal and tender documents.
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Read the full message
Record the family, criterion and pending-item message shown in the portal. Do not infer the cause from the status label alone.
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Link the evidence
Check which information or document the message refers to and which version was submitted. Use official support if the requirement is unclear.
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Organize your response
Assign someone to clarify or prepare each item and follow the guidance received. How to make a correction depends on the stage and available portal options.
Officially, ‘Rejected (R)’ means an unsatisfactory score in one or more requirements within the criteria. ‘Technically Qualified (Q)’ means technical approval but with outstanding issues (or no assessment) in the financial and/or legal criteria.
Transparency: there is no official list of ‘top reasons’
Many websites publish ‘the 10 reasons your CRC is rejected’ as though these were Petrobras data. No such official list exists. What does exist is friction documented in official material — and practitioners’ experience. Below, we distinguish documented points from practical experience.
Officially documented friction points
- A document expired on the questionnaire submission date (validity is checked at submission, not at the start).
- Financial statements missing the accountant’s and legal representative’s signatures.
- An attachment not linked to the correct requirement — the assessor may not find it.
- Irreversibility: identification details and questionnaires cannot be edited after confirmation.
Registration can also be suspended or cancelled
This is in the law, not just the internal regulation: registration may be amended, suspended or cancelled at any time if the registered party stops meeting the requirements established for qualification or admission to the register (Law 13,303/2016, Article 65, paragraph 4). The regulation additionally covers the results of performance assessments and administrative sanctions.
Official source: Law 13,303/2016, Article 65, paragraph 4 — Planalto (Portuguese)Renewal: the 60-day guidance