The main innovations in the Tender Code (published with Italian Legislative Decree implementing the EU directives issued on the matter and establishing the new law to apply to tenders and 370 public contracts, as subsequently amended by Italian Legislative Decree 56/2017, by the so-called “Sblocca cantieri” Decree (Decree on unblocking construction sites - Italian Legislative Decree 32/2019) subsequently converted into Italian Law 55/2019) include the provision of the awarding method according to the economically most advantageous bid approach 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 greater than Euro 40 thousand.