The Municipality of Caggiano and the Asmel Consortile project anticipated the guidelines that the European Directives 23/2014/EU, 24/2014/EU and 25/2014/EU would indicate in 2014. The purpose of this was to use the stimulus of the normative obligation to invite the municipalities to adopt an efficient solution that could improve the action of the public administration. The model of telematic centralisation proposed by Asmel anticipated the national law introduced in 2016; in this way, the municipalities have managed to develop innovative and efficient models spontaneously, before they were obliged by law to comply with the European model.
The municipality of Caggiano, together with the ASMEL Association, has been a pioneer in developing the European model throughout the country, overcoming many political and regulatory obstacles. Only the far-sightedness and the full harmony with the legislative addresses coming from the European Union have allowed the development of the public tender model of Asmel Consortile. In a few years this has reached more than 1400 participating entities, and more than 3000 tenders managed on the telematic platform for a transaction value of approximately EUR 2 billion.
The objective was to improve the efficiency of the municipalities’ tender procedures, make them faster and more transparent, guarantee specialist and technological support, and achieve critical mass in respect of the autonomy of the authorities and their real needs. The figures and the result obtained confirm that the proposed model is efficient and works. Parallel to the activities of the Asmel Consortile, the ASMEL Association has also developed various training programmes, also in collaboration with the Universities of Naples and a University in Milan. These offer, free of charge, the updating and the training of the staff operating in the municipalities associated through programmes finalised to the improvement of the professionality and the efficiency of the administrative processes.