The Tocantins Scientific and Technological Support Foundation – Fapto, CNPJ: 06.343.763/0001-11, located at Orla 14, Praia da Graciosa, Av. Park, IQ. 04, Lot 03, Palmas - TO, makes public the publication of BIDDING NOTICE No. 01/2022 for the selection of companies with export potential, to meet the demands during the execution of the activities agreed with the “727-4 TOCANTINS PELO MUNDO” project, under the terms of the Agreement 01/2022, entered into between the state of Tocantins, through the Secretariat of Industry, Commerce and Services/SICS, the Fundação Universidade Federal do Tocantins/UFT and the Tocantins/Fapto Scientific and Technological Support Foundation, in process No 2022/19010/000119, with a view to preparing business workshops on the export of products and services developed in the state of Tocantins, through the rules and conditions established in this Notice and its Annexes. This Selection Process is carried out in order to meet the principles of impersonality and publicity, striving for the transparency of Fapto's contracts, not to be confused with public tender, provided for in art. 37, item II, of the Constitution Federal do Brasil, 1988

The selection process will be governed by this Notice, carried out by the coordinator of project (linked to UFT, the convening entity), coordinated by Fapto (intervention finance) and supervised by the Secretary of Industry, Commerce and Services (entity grantor); will also be supervised by the inspectors of Agreement N O 1/2022. Participation in the project aims to provide training for the export of products and services, and create a network for the company to start its process of exports. Inclusion in the project will take place by signing the Consent Form (Annex II) between the beneficiary and Fapto.

The TOCANTINS PELO MUNDO project aims to prepare Tocantins companies, mostly small and medium-sized, for the export of their products and services. Will develop a series of business workshops for exporting products and services in Tocantins, with an emphasis on practical application focused on the specific of the region and these companies. 2.2. The project aims to prepare 60 (sixty) companies from Tocantins to export its products and services, through 3 (three) cycles of business workshops with 20 (twenty) companies each and duration of 8 (eight) months. 2.3. The concept is to act in a practical way in Foreign Trade procedures, providing Tocantins companies an approach to international markets and to its operators (international logistics companies, customs brokers, exporting commercial companies, trading companies, Federal Revenue, Banks, Post Office and international courier services). 2.4. This public notice aims to select the 20 companies for the first cycle (eight – 08 – months from September 2022). 2.5. Among the business workshops offered and to be carried out by the project Tocantins around the World for selected companies are: