Subcontracting and the risk of a privileged route for mafia enterprises

Abstract

This paper analyses the main socio-economic factors that favor the entry into the market of economic operators contaminated by mafia elements, with particular attention to the public procurement sector. The complexity of the approach stems from the need to balance the requirement to broaden participation in tenders through appropriate organizational tools with the need to prevent these tools from becoming channels for circumventing the controls of the contracting authority, both in the tender phase—in which the requirements of Articles 94 et seq. of Legislative Decree 36 must be verified—and in the execution phase.

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