Public Administration Purchases: When the State buys, there's always a whiff of waste...

PURCHASES IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION –

Who knows why, when the state buys, prices are always higher. From 30 to 70 percent.And in the various contracting authorities in Italy that deal with supplies, everyone is free to set their own rates, as long as they waste money on the taxpayers' shoulders.

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ACQUISITION OF GOODS AND SERVICES IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION –

The Ministry of Economy, in its desperate search for resources to avoid a new VAT increase and to cut taxes on housing, has discovered, for example, that There are large gaps between the prices paid by individual clients of the Public Administration and those obtained through centralised purchases by Consip.

PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION PURCHASES CONSIP –

Some examples? An printer on average it costs 122 euros, at Consip it costs only 39. A personal computer translates into an outlay of 445, while with centralized purchasing the State pays 331 eurosAnd even gasoline and diesel, like reams of paper, exhibit these incredible differences. Indeed, for paper supplies, individual public administrations pay exactly double what Consip does.

PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION PURCHASING PROCEDURES –

The government's attempt, hopefully successful, will be to bring all public administration purchases and supplies under the Consip reporting system. This would result in significant savings and greater transparency. Furthermore, all public administrators, and citizens themselves, would be informed of the cost of each individual product. There is enormous scope for avoiding waste: the current Consip tables would allow for purchases worth 36 billion euros, while now only 4 billion euros are available for the power plant.. The difference is the swamp of waste.

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