Artificial Intelligence and Public Procurement: Pilot
Applications for the Apulia Regional Central
Purchasing Body
Monica Messa1 , Marco Di Ciano1 , Giuseppe Marziale2 , Nicola Lopane2 and
Antonio Scaramuzzi1
1
    InnovaPuglia S.p.A., Bari, Italy
2
    Regione Puglia, Bari, Italy


                                         Abstract
                                         We present the research work and the prototype experiments we have conducted with the aim of
                                         providing new AI instruments to support tender management and administrative observatory of public
                                         contracts within the regulatory framework of the public administration sector for the implementation
                                         of public procurement. With this purpose we have studied and tested AI techniques of Relational and
                                         Distributional Semantics, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Information extraction,
                                         Information Filtering,Recommender Systems, etc., to create a ”passport” for economic operators taking
                                         part to a tender for work, services and goods in the field of public procurement applications and for the
                                         analysis of textual documents and automatic extraction of knowledge from different databases.




1. Bio
Monica Messa is project manager for public administration applications and tenders at the
regional central purchasing body. The work presented is the result of an active collaboration
with the University of Bari and with the Regional Observatory of Public Contracts at the Apulia
Region.




AIxPA 22: 1st Workshop on AI for Public Administration, December 2nd, 2022, Udine, IT
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