Abstrakt

Introduction  In Italy powers that A.N.AC. can exercise are both of prevention (through data collection activities, including all changes made to all contracts assigned, activities of market regulation and tracking of financial flows) and repression (through powers of supervision, sanction and compulsory administration). The activity of supervision concerns: public contracts entrusted to administrations, central and peripheral and those of regional interest; the object of the supervision is the observance of the legislation, regulation and the regularity of procurement procedures, the compliance with economic efficiency of the execution of public contracts, the fairness and transparency of procurement procedures, the protection of small and medium-sized enterprises and the respect for the rules of competition in the single tender procedures. Closely related to the powers of supervision, are the powers of sanction exercised through the records of businesses in a computerized record of the Authority, and this results...