Despite having generated great interest among some of the most important Italian and international law firms, the tender for at least 440 thousand euros announced last March by the Western Ligurian Sea Port System Authority to obtain legal and administrative-legal support is not to be carried out.
In recent days, in fact, the port authority chaired by Matteo Paroli (also a lawyer) announced by specific decree that the tender has been revoked. Several reasons were given to justify this change of heart, among which we read: “Based on the organizational determinations currently being finalized, within the detailed organizational chart, specialist support functions will be implemented within the offices directly reporting to the Authority’s top management (General Secretariat and Cabinet Office) for profiles of EU regulatory relevance and coordination with the main European Union institutions, with provision for specific and targeted training paths for personnel already holding specific academic qualifications.” And then: “Pending the internal strengthening process and in light of specific and precise needs and requirements in the EU area that cannot yet be satisfied by internal personnel, individual and targeted assignments may be made to external professionals, resorting if necessary also to the subjects who participated in the above-mentioned procedure, all of undisputed competence including international standing, by using the direct award procedures provided for by the current Public Contracts Code for intellectual service contracts below the EU thresholds.” It should also be considered that “during the course of the tender procedure, new and further provisions and measures – including organizational and training ones – have also intervened, which have modified the factual situation preceding the call for tenders and the definition of the areas covered by the service.”
Among the reasons is also the support guaranteed by artificial intelligence: “The Authority has equipped itself with a legal AI application, which allows facilitating and enhancing the effectiveness of legal research functional to the performance of its institutional activity, reducing the need for periodic in-depth analysis of regulations, doctrine and jurisprudence pertaining to the service in question.”
The revoked tender set the deadline for submitting offers as April 20 and a tender for at least 442,500 euros aimed at obtaining a consultancy service structured as 30 hours per month (valued at 97,500 euros plus a maximum ceiling of 50,000 /year), for three years. The total value could have increased and exceeded 828,000 euros, by virtue of the possibility of annual renewal, the “maximum fifth of obligation” clause (in case of upward tariff variations), and the possible activation of additional services (training, legal opinions, legal representation).
That was enough to attract the interest of many law firms specialized in maritime law, and indeed that was the case: as many as nine offers were received from groups of lawyers and law firms. The first grouping, Rp Legal, composed of Rp Legal & Tax with lawyers Pietro Manzoni and Massimo Deiana (the latter until last year was president of the port authority governing the ports of Sardinia).
The second grouping, on the other hand, was composed of lawyers Davide Maresca, Stefano Zunarelli and Ugo Patroni Griffi.
Oltre a loro (‘in solitaria’ avendo già al loro interno vari desk e professionisti specializzati) si sono fatti avanti Ga Alliance Sta, lo studio legale Pavia e Ansaldo, Deloitte Legal, Lca studio legale, Bonelli Erede Lombardi Pappalardo.
L’ottavo pretendente era Campbell Johnston Clark di Mastropasqua Marco (lo studio italiano di cui fa parte da Londra anche Enrico Vergani) in tandem con Conte e Giacomini avvocati.
La nona offerta è infine pervenuta dal costituendo raggruppamento ribattezzato Legal Hub San Giorgio composto da Scd Avvocati & Partners, l’avv. Simone Carrea, lo studio Siccardi Bregante & C., l’avv. Pietro Piciocchi (ex vicensindaco e candidato sindaci di Genova alle ultime elezioni), l’avv. Hendrik Viaene, l’avv. Amedeo Della Croce di Dojolaa Galleani d’Agliano, lo studio legale Cafari Panico e associati e l’avv. Marco Littardi.
A SHIPPING ITALY il presidente dell’Adsp, Matteo Paroli, ha spiegato che l’intenzione è quella di “investire su alcuni dipendenti per far loro formazione specifica in materia comunitaria. Al momento non sono ovviamente completamente formati su ogni materia di ambito comunitario ma lo saranno in circa uno o due anni. Nel frattempo, se sarà necessario, ci rivolgeremo a professionisti esterni. Servirà un po’ di tempo ma almeno avremo personale interno preparato e potremo quasi sempre evitare ricorsi a professionisti esterni”.
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