Colosseum, renewed ticketing service soon. MiC and Anac protocol signed

The National Anti-Corruption Authority will supervise the Consip tender for thecontracting of the ticketing service for access to the areas and monuments managed by the Colosseum Archaeological Park. On January 28, Anac, the Ministry of Culture and Consip signed a protocol of collaborative supervisory action requested by the same Ministry in the face of critical issues in the management of the ticketing service: “several extensions that followed one another over time, the connotation of a particularly litigious reference market and the succession of jurisdictional annulments” of a first tender procedure in February 2017 and a second in October 2019.

A collaboration strongly desired by the Ministry of Culture, reads a MiC memo, which will enable it to effectively offer visitors a renewed ticketing service for access to one of the world’s most important archaeological areas in a timely manner.

In a resolution dated Sept. 8, 2021, Anac itself had pointed out that the prolonged monopoly management of the Colosseum’s services was inconsistent with the principles of Euro-Unitarian law on public contracts and called on the Ministry of Culture to take all necessary steps to promptly reach the awarding of public evidence procedures. The Collaborative Supervision Protocol stipulates that Consip submits to Anac the acts related to the tender (notice, specifications, appointment of commissioners and the jury, lists of tender participants and any subcontractors, exclusion measures, awarding measures, contract, minutes of the tender and exclusion of abnormally low bids). If Anac identifies irregularities, it formulates a reasoned finding, transmits it to Consip, which, if it considers it well-founded, complies with it, otherwise it submits its counter-deductions and takes the actions within its competence.

Consip undertakes to make use of the termination clause when a precautionary measure has been ordered against the contractor or the company’s top management or when an indictment has been issued for crimes of bribery, extortion, trafficking in influence, and disruption of the freedom of bidders. A clause that will be included in the integrity pacts that Consip is committed to having economic operators sign.

The Protocol specifies that the activities carried out by the Authority as part of collaborative supervision do not constitute or determine interference in the decision-making phase, which remains the exclusive prerogative of the MIC and Consip S.p.A., nor in any way can they limit its responsibility in this regard. Therefore, the supervisory, reporting and sanctioning powers institutionally attributed to Anac remain unaffected.

Colosseum, renewed ticketing service soon. MiC and Anac protocol signed

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