The main innovations of the Tenders Code, published by means of Italian Legislative Decree No. assimilating the EU directives issued on the subject and establishing the new rules to apply to public contracts and tenders, as subsequently amended by Italian Legislative Decree No. 56/2017, by the so-called "Sblocca cantieri" Decree (Italian Decree Law No. 32/2019), subsequently converted into Italian Law No. 55/2019, include the provision of the awarding criterion according to the most economically advantageous bid method as mandatory and exclusive in certain cases (Art. 95) such as for example services with a high intensity of manpower (such as cleaning services or scholastic services), or engineering, architecture services or those of another technical or intellectual nature for amounts of or greater than Euro 40 thousand.