Suspend the Procurement Code

Temporarily suspend the Procurement Code and, in the meantime, clean it of the excesses of bureaucracy that slow down public Works? In an interview with Corriere della Sera, the president of the Antitrust, Roberto Rustichelli, returned to one of the most disruptive proposals contained in the report sent a few days ago to the government for the purposes of the annual competition law. The basic idea is that the administrative complication produces a double damage to the country: on the one hand it implies an increase in costs and time to start and carry out the works, on the other it limits the contestability of contracts by creating less competitive tension in their award. . The “crossing times”, that is those linked to the completion of administrative formalities, absorb about 54 percent of the average time for carrying out public works, and even 69 percent of the preliminary design.