Velox Rodigini, tender cancelled. It is currently not possible to find approved electronic speed detection systems on the market. Therefore, the tender procedure called by the Municipality to entrust the rental, installation and maintenance service of six veloxes in the stations already present in the Rovigo area, started at over 600 thousand euros for a duration of 5 and a half years, was cancelled, “in self-protection”, as is the practice from a technical point of view. A procedure which, among other things, had caused a lot of hype since the service is currently managed by As2, the public technological services company owned by 49 municipalities as well as other public bodies such as Iras and Ecoambiente.
For further information, read also:
In short, the race will not take place and not so much because the issue of in-house providing has been clarified in the meantime, the regime in which As2 operates on the basis of which it obtains the assignment of services from its members, but rather because there is no clarity on which devices are used to automatically detect infringements of the approved maximum speed limits which the municipalities, and therefore also Rovigo, must equip themselves with.
On the issue of in house, among other things, a summit was held in the prefecture in recent days in the presence of the prefect Clemente Di Nuzzo in which the unions participated, signatories of the request to convene the prefectural table, and the leaders of As2 itself, primarily the president of the board of directors Caterina Furfari.
And on in-house, the prefect clarified that the way forward, to dispel any doubts about the in-house regime, is to convene the company’s similar control committee to implement the relevant regulation. The meeting has already been scheduled for next May 14th, in the afternoon. In any case, the revocation of the tender is not linked to local issues played out on the edge of administrative law. The issue is in fact linked to the highway code and, in particular, to an order of the Court of Cassation published last April 18 which was found to be in disagreement with a previous circular from the general directorate for road safety of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport, dating back to 2020, aimed at providing clarifications on device approvals. And the tender specifications prepared by Palazzo Nodari had been created according to ministerial provisions.
The cancellation, however, did not cause any inconvenience for the Municipality since the end of the tenderwhose documents had been published in the electronic system on 17 April, i.e. the day before the Supreme Court order, had been scheduled for 20 May and no participant, in the meantime, had been identified.
