English to Italian Law/Patents Law (general) Gare d'appalto

Avoidance of required competitive procedure
A beneficiary avoids the required competitive procedure in order to favour a particular applicant in either winning or maintaining a contract by:

- split purchases or
- ** unjustified single source award ** or
- not organising a tendering process or
- irregular extension of the contract.

1) Beneficiaries may split a purchase into two or more purchase orders or contracts in order to avoid having to launch a competitive procedure or higher-level management review or
2) Beneficiaries may falsify single source acquisition justification by drafting very narrow specifications or
3) Beneficiaries may award contracts to favoured third parties without the required tendering process or
4) Beneficiaries may extend original contract lengths via a contract amendement or additional condition, in order to avoid a re-tendering process.