Digitisation of public procurement: the new ANAC guidelines of 28.06.2024

As of 1 January 2024, the digitisation provisions have become definitively effective and, as a consequence, the entire public contract cycle (from planning to execution) has to be managed via digital platforms: every contracting authority will have to equip itself with a digital procurement platform (so-called PAD) as a requirement to participate in the new national e-procurement ecosystem.

In order to facilitate the Administrations in adapting to the new digital systems, ANAC has made available, until 30.09.2024, the temporary web interface, ‘PCP’ (Piattaforma Contratti Pubblici), i.e. a supplementary tool to be used in the event of impossibility or difficulty in resorting to the PADs.However, in this first phase of application, numerous difficulties were encountered by contracting stations, and by a communiqué of the President of ANAC dated 28.06.2024, the possibility of using the temporary web interface was extended - until 31 December 2024:- for direct awards of less than EUR 5,000, but only in the event that it is impossible or difficult to use the PAD;- for entering into framework agreements and conventions whose notices were published by 31/12/2023 with or without subsequent competitive comparison;- for the repetition of similar works or services pursuant to Article 76, paragraph 6, of the Code provided for in the original tender documentation relating to procedures published before 31/12/2023;- for the cases referred to in Resolution No. 584 of 2023, which replaced and integrated Resolution No. 214 of 2022. For further elaboration:- ANAC Communiqué of 10.01.2024;- ANAC Communiqué of 28.06.2024;- ANAC Decision No. 584/2023.