4cLegal PA
It’s the platform through which public entities (territorial and non-territorial) and investee companies can manage the delicate process of externally entrust legal jobs. Modulable to every need, the platform makes the purchasing organization able to manage digitally – hence efficiently and transparently – all phases of the entrusting process, for instance managing an up-to-date list of attorneys, and developing comparative procedures.
How does one entrust legal jobs in the public sector?
Over the last few years, the Council of State, ANAC and the Court of Auditors have expressed their view on the subject. The keyword is “procimentalize” – to create an attorney register in open and transparent modalities, and to develop a competition among professionals aimed at entrusting jobs. The principles to comply with are those of Art.4 in the Code of Public Contracts: affordability, efficacy, impartiality, equal treatment, transparency, proportionality and publicity.
How does one entrust legal jobs in the public sector?
Over the last few years, the Council of State, ANAC and the Court of Auditors have expressed their view on the subject. The keyword is “procimentalize” – to create an attorney register in open and transparent modalities, and to develop a competition among professionals aimed at entrusting jobs. The principles to comply with are those of Art.4 in the Code of Public Contracts: affordability, efficacy, impartiality, equal treatment, transparency, proportionality and publicity.
Create an attorney register which is easily manageable
The platform allows the creation of an attorney list according to the requisites and criteria chosen by the Entity in a fully autonomous way. The Entity decides which professionals to validate, independently logs on to the platform to consult updated information and documents, exports in Excel, PDF and CSV the results of its research made by the use of filters (ex. geographical area, fields of competence etc.). The attorney register’s maintenance and update processes are carried out by 4cLegal (survey and substitution of expired documents, update of the attorneys’ qualifications and competencies etc.).
Starting of competitive procedures
The Entity picks the attorneys from its own digital list and invites them to formulate an offering assistance for a specific job. Hence, it compares the offers received and chooses the best one, in a fully transparent and traceable way. The competitive confrontation can be organized following extremely flexible criteria as for the number of participants (from 1 upwards) and can be made either including economic quotations, or in a “qualitative” way – hence, including only those elements related to the attorneys’ experiences and competences.
Jobs mapping
The Entity traces the entrusting process of each job including its related data. Hence, the platform also functions as an archive always up to date on the legal expense, and it also helps respecting the principle of assignments rotation.
Evaluation
The Entity evaluates, internally to the platform, the performance of the professionals related to the jobs they carried out. The evaluation parameters are customizable and offer objective elements always updated in order to manage the subsequent entrusting of the attorneys on the list.
Transparency
The Entity can extract in Excel format the data required by the normative in matters of transparency as related to the external legal jobs, or it can directly receive in the website’s section “Transparency” (through automated flow) the data required for publication. In this second case, the publication of data is anonymous.