The main innovations of this price list compared to the previous edition, and in compliance with the current contract code, consist in the provision of 16,424 price analyzes with 3,596 more articles, with an increase of 31.8%, in order to facilitate operators in verifying the price of the completed work and above all in developing new and different price analyses. For each process, the percentages of the products used, equipment and human resources were entered. Furthermore, chapters dedicated to the Minimum Environmental Criteria and new processes have been introduced, including those aimed at the restoration of cultural heritage, new plant technologies and the use of materials characteristic of Puglia.
The regional price list for public works in the Puglia Region for 2024 will now be the subject of a Resolution of the Regional Council and then published in the Official Bulletin of the Puglia Region. After 30 June 2024, tender-based projects will have to use the new 2024 price list. For tender-based projects for which the date of adoption of the approval act occurred by 30 June 2024, it is possible to use the previous price list for the year 2023.
“We face this annual appointment with the timeliness that this phase of history imposes on all those who have public responsibilities”, remarks the vice-president of the Puglia Region and councilor for Infrastructure, Raffaele Piemontese, observing how “the annual price review has ceased to be a purely technical-bureaucratic step to become one of the main acts with an impact on the daily lives of businesses, professionals, workers and ordinary citizens: all of us who have direct experience of how, for four years, the public procurement sector in Italy has undergone a strong impact due to unexpected events such as the pandemic, the energy crisis and the war in Ukraine, while we have the duty to protect the projects of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan and those supported by other public sources of financing from the blockages and consequent slowdowns to the great inflation that is characterizing these years, putting especially small businesses, already fragmented, in difficulty in obtaining materials at sustainable costs, causing delays on construction sites”.
