Consip

Consip S.p.A.

Headquarters in Rome, Via Isonzo, 19D.
Company type	State owned enterprise
Industry	Procurement
Founded	1997; 27 years ago (1997)
Headquarters	Rome , Italy
Area served	Italy
Key people	Renato Catalano (Chairman), Cristiano Cannarsa (CEO)
Services	Public procurement services
Owner	Ministry of Economy and Finance (Italy)
Number of employees	344 (2014)
Website	www.consip.it/en/

Consip is an Italian state-owned company that provides frameworks and consultation for the procurement of public goods and services. It was set up as a joint-stock company in 1997 and is owned by Italy's Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF), which is the sole shareholder. The company operates in keeping with the MEF's strategic goals, working exclusively to serve the public administration.

Consip’s mission is to make the use of public resources more efficient and transparent, by providing tools and skills to public administration. The goal is to allow them to perform public purchases and at the same time stimulate a competitive participation of enterprises to public tenders.^[1]

Consip is a member of the Procurement G6, an informal group leading the use of framework agreements and e-procurement instruments in public procurement. Consip obtained the ISO 9001:2008 quality certification for the “design, implementation and launching of framework contracts and e-marketplaces for the procurement of public Goods and Services, in its role as a central purchasing body”.