This presentation was made by Chiara RICCI, Italy, at the 3rd OECD Forum on Governance of Infrastructure held in Paris on 26 March 2018

1. Collecting data on
public infrastructure investments
3rd Forum on Governance of Infrastructures
OECD, 26th March 2018

2. The Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance launched a
system to monitor physical infrastructure investments in
October 2014.
Evaluate
Public
Accounts
Monitoring
System
Plan
Introduction
This monitoring system (BDAP-
MOP) is part of the investments
management process aimed at
designing better investment
strategies.

3. The framework
Investments in public
infrastructure are run by a
multitude of subjects.
• Fragmented: about fifteen
thousands entities invest in
public infrastructures in Italy
• Diversified: multiple levels
of government and private
entities, with different
dimension

4. Goals of the monitoring system
The dataset is designed to answer relevant questions to plan
and implement national and sectorial investment policies.
Territorial distribution of investments
Timing of payments
Allocation of resources
Composition of government spending
Timing realization of projects
Analysis on specific projects or subjects

5. 5
laws provide the
framework
13
more laws
provide
implemantation
details
Legislation
3
email campaigns
per year
17.000
users’ request
managed in 2
years
Communication
5
already existing
systems
integrated
500
variables
managed
Information
Technlogies
Plan in action
Monitoring is effective if there is coherence between
• Legislative framework
• Administrative processes
• IT systems

6. Data in the system
0
50
100
150
200
250
4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1
2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
Thousands
Number of projects tracked in the database, quarterly data
Projects financed with national
funds
Projects financed within
cohesion policy
# Users 10.884
# Projects 219.286
Value € 218.980mln

7. Ask data
just once
Use data
produced for
different
goals
Minimize
adminstrative
burden
The functioning model is based on the collection of data
available on other systems.
How it works

8. Public tenders
“Identification number” of public investments
Electronic bills
Citizens
Local
administrations
Central administrations
Payments
How it works

9. Description of the project
Localization
Sector of intervention
Financial sources
Payments
Total cost
Financial plan
Procedural steps
Work progress (SAL)
Suspensions
Physical indicators
Key features
How much? When?
What?
How it works – Data content

10. 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18
0 - 0,1
0,1 - 0,2
0,2 - 0,5
0,5 - 1
1 - 2
2 - 5
5 - 10
10 - 20
20 - 50
50 - 100
> 100
Years
MillionsofEuro
Average duration of projects
Project
definition
Work in
progress
Test and
availability
Some analysis

11. 0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
0
8
15
23
30
38
45
53
60
68
Project definition Work in progress Test and availability
Billionsof€
Financial progress for implementation phase
Resources allocated Payments Financial progress
Some analysis

12. Data quality
User
engagement
Planning
phase
Current challenges

13. Achieving the goal
Transparency
and Open
Data
New
ITC
tools
More
data
users
Public
procurement
reform
Enlarge
the set of
data
sources
Institutional
cooperation

14. Chiara Assunta Ricci
Economic officer
Ministry of Economy and Finance
State General Accounting Department
Email: chiara.ricci@mef.gov.it
Tel. +39 06 47610687
Thank you for your attention!