Renzi blasts tender process bureaucracy

(ANSA) - Rome, April 15 - Italian Premier Matteo Renzi said on Friday that Italy's current system for tenders is so complicated that corruption can infiltrate the process, speaking at a press conference presenting the government's new public-tender code. "We have a system that starts from 36,000 contracting authorities, 14 years on average to complete a public work. In these 14 years the downtime due to bureaucracy weighs more than a third: four years of bureaucracy in 14 years. It's a ghastly thing," Renzi said.
    "Not only: the system is so tortuous and complicated that corruption lurks in the subterfuges of the bureaucracy," he said.