Albofornitori is a platform for eProcurement which supports the following phases: eSourcing, ePublishing, eNoticing, eTendering, eAwarding. It's a:

1) certified suppliers electronic list for public awarding authorities

The list of suppliers is catalogued by a product/service classification, letting them upload electronic certificates and attestations.

2) eSourcing portal

Albofornitori includes a legal review,
news from suppliers and from awarding authorities.

3) ePublishing and eNoticing portal

It manages the entire publication procedure covering all the informative debt as fixed by the national law: Guue (CSAmed is eSender with IT001 login), GURI (the Italian official journal), ministerial and regional websites, national and local newspapers.

Albofornitori offers a service for daily electronic distribution of European notices (CSAmed is a license holder), selected on the basis of the desired CPV and countries.

4) eTendering and eAwarding portal

It manages all the acquiring procedures according to the European and national law: best price / price + technical evaluation / price + technical evaluation with a final price auctions (open and restricted procedures).
Over European threshold it handles a specific procedure to assure the bid's inviolability, based on the use of electronic signature and timestamp. This procedure is registered by the national office (SIAE) and the international office (Washington copyright).

Main figures

• more than 7.000 suppliers
• more than 40 awarding authorities
• two regional centralized awarding authorities
• one association of 500 local authorities 
• about 3.000 tenders
• more than 1 billion euro transaction over the European threshold
• totally paperless procedure
• only 90 days between the official notice and the contract (on average)
• best results for the most complex tender: 64 days for 290 million, 100 suppliers, 900 items