Corruption Prevention (IT0063)

Background and objectives
This action aims at preventing corruption by adapting open contracting standards and introducing tools like the Advanced Integrity Pacts.

The Public Contracts Service (SCP) is a platform of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport developed in cooperation with the Conference of Regions and Autonomous Provinces and ITACA, in compliance with the publication obligations under Legislative Decree 50/2016.

SCP is one of the national databases listed in Annex B of Legislative Decree 97/2016 (art. 9) which modifies the publication obligation as laid down in the legislation on transparency, Legislative Decree 33/2013 (art. 9bis).

It also includes open data on notices, calls for tender and outcome of public contracts for works, services and supplies, information on biennial programmes for the purchase of goods and services and the triennial programmes for public works and related annual updates. It also includes the register of unaccomplished work as envisaged by the Decree of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport of 13 March 2013, no. 42.

Data are updated on a daily basis and published on the Ministry’s open data platform http://dati.mit.gov.it/catalog/dataset.

Commitments

As far as data are concerned, our primary objective is to standardize data and information on public contracts in compliance with the common international model under the Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS), in close cooperation with the other PAs to jointly assess the resources needed.

Data in the Ministry’s portal OpenCantieri are compatible with the international standard OCDS as far as “tenders”, “successful bidders” and “contracts” are concerned. More specifically, standards will also have to be applied to the performance of the contract.

A second objective is to open (non sensitive) data included in the new IT Archives of Public Works (AINOP), established in compliance with Law 130/2018 at the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport.
AINOP is based on the interoperability of the different administrations which hold and manage data regarding a specific public work and the works needed to complete it.

This second objective could be achieved in cooperation with the Regions and Local Authorities for the transport infrastructure under their responsibility.

The final result implies providing the community with information on road and rail infrastructure or other means of transportation, that can be accessed and processed for civic monitoring and to develop applications and services.

Regarding Advanced Integrity Pacts, these are very innovative compared to ordinary Integrity Pacts:
- the role of the monitoring agency, co-signatory to the Pact; it oversees the Integrity Pact, monitors the stages of the tender procedure and acts as intermediary with civil society;
- the stages of the monitoring process which covers the entire procedure in the Integrity Pact, from needs analysis to service delivery/completion of works.

Lead Administrations
Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport (MIT) – Mario Nobile University of Messina – Giovanni Moschella
Sicily Region – Francesca Chinnici
City of Palermo – Giuseppe Mazzarella

Other administrations involved
Agency for Territorial Cohesion, Agency of State Property, Department for Planning and Coordination of Economic Policy (PCM – DIPE), CONSIP, Ministry of Economics and Finance (MEF)
Monitoring contact person from the Open Government Forum
FONDACA – Fondazione per la cittadinanza attiva – Emma Amiconi

7. Corruption prevention

7. Corruption prevention

Completion: Limited

Milestones 7.1 and 7.2 (MIT, DIPE, CONSIP): According to the self- assessment, MIMS, DIPE, and CONSIP formed a working group to standardize data and information on public contracts in line with the Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS). It states they coordinated with the Open Contracting Partnership in assessing and identifying actions needed to meet the OCDS. The resulting action is to now develop an external service outside the current public-contracts platform that pulls together the relevant data under the OCDS. A government decree to implement this is being prepared. The release of open data included in the new IT Archive of Public Works (AINOP) is ongoing; due to the complexity and high number of contributing parties, the data is not complete nor evenly spread across regions, cities, and central government. A technical committee to oversee the release of open data in AINOP was set up and is currently revising and validating the data submitted for release.

Milestones 7.3–7.5 (University of Messina, Sicily Region, City of Palermo): The University of Messina started its Integrity Pact project in March 2019. [120] Implementation is due to finish by the end of 2021 according to the self-assessment. The self-assessment provides no information on Milestone 7.4 about implementing an Advanced Integrity Pact in the Sicily Region. It provides information on implementing Milestone 7.5 but no evidence for completing an Advanced Integrity Pact on a specific tendering procedure in the City of Palermo.