The ANAC Virtual File, without a hitch
Support with the FVOE, Italy’s Economic Operator’s Virtual File, for economic operators and contracting authorities: registration and profile set-up on the ANAC portal, a telephone help desk and tailored training. From Studio Albonet, public procurement consultants since 1999.
Economic operators
Your file ready before the check
When a contracting authority checks your requirements, it looks in your Virtual File. A missing or badly uploaded document slows down the award and, if a request for proof goes unanswered, exposes you to ANAC sanctions. Bidding in Italy from abroad? You need the FVOE too, and access works differently if you have no Italian tax code.
Good to know before your next tender
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No email alerts
The FVOE sends no notifications by email or certified email (PEC): the contracting authority’s requests appear only on the platform. Check it often during the weeks of the check.
Albonet FVOE manual for economic operators, revised 18 November 2025
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€500–5,000
The ANAC sanction for operators who fail to comply with a request to prove their requirements. For untruthful data or documents it rises to €10,000.
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5 MB and PAdES
Each uploaded file must be no larger than 5 MB. Documents signed in CAdES (.p7m) are rejected: you need PDFs signed in PAdES format.
Albonet FVOE manual for economic operators, revised 18 November 2025
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120 days
The conventional validity of certificates on general requirements, unless otherwise provided: within this period the same document is valid for several tenders.
How we help
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Activation on the ANAC portal
We register your legal representative with SPID, CIE or eIDAS, activate the “Amministratore OE” (OE administrator) profile and, if needed, a delegation to a colleague.
Request activation- Check of your certified email (PEC) and company details
- Document proving your role, for professionals and organisations not in the Italian Business Register, such as foreign companies
- Your first FVOE login, together with you
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FVOE telephone help desk
A consultant on the phone while you work on the portal: notifications, uploading documents, linking them to files, requests from the contracting authority.
Request the help desk- Practical answers on your real cases
- Support by video call with screen sharing
- Tailored support packages
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On-demand training
Online sessions on your actual file, whenever you need them: your tender office learns to manage the FVOE on its own.
Request training- Programme built around your tenders
- For owners, tender office staff and external consultants
- Updated Albonet guide included
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File under control
With a delegation on your profile, we monitor notifications and deadlines during check periods and alert you straight away, so no request goes unanswered.
Request the service- Notifications monitored during check weeks
- Alerts on expiring documents
- Upload of the documents you send us
Contracting authorities
Faster, better documented requirement checks
Since 1 January 2024, requirement checks go through the Virtual File. For RUPs and procurement offices this means new profiles, new requests to certifying bodies and a few pitfalls worth knowing.
Good to know before your next check
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RUP profile
To access the FVOE you need the Responsabile Unico del Progetto (RUP, single project manager) profile on ANAC services. Without it, the e-procurement platform returns errors too.
Albonet FVOE manual for contracting authorities, revised 20 November 2025
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From 1 July 2025
Criminal record certificates for procurement are obtained only through ANAC procedures: local criminal records offices no longer issue them.
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30 days
If the FVOE is not working, 30 days after the proposed award you can award on the basis of the bidder’s self-declaration and complete the checks afterwards.
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Preliminary checks
In award procedures, access to the file no longer requires the operator’s authorisation. In preliminary checks, started before the procedure, it is still required.
How we help
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On-demand training for RUPs and procurement offices
Online sessions on your real workflow: access and profiles, authorised files, requesting certificates from certifying bodies, preliminary checks, the execution phase.
Request training- Tailored for public bodies, central purchasing bodies and unions of municipalities
- Exercises on the workflow of your e-procurement platform
- Ready-to-use templates, such as the PEC that opens the checks
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Hands-on support with checks
We guide you through a real procedure: what to request, certificate issue times, how to document the outcome, what to do if a document does not arrive.
Request hands-on support- Checklists for grounds for exclusion (Arts. 94 and 95) and special requirements (Arts. 100 and 103)
- Handling malfunctions and the remedial clarification procedure
- Checks during contract execution too
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Help desk for procurement offices
A telephone contact for the practical and legal questions that come up during requirement checks.
Request the help desk- Answers from public procurement consultants
- Support by video call with screen sharing
- Tailored support packages
How it works
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Fill in the form
Just your organisation’s name, contact details and a couple of lines about what you need.
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We call you back
A consultant contacts you within one working day, frames the problem and proposes the right service with a written quote.
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We work on the FVOE together
By phone, by video call with screen sharing or in a virtual classroom, on your real case.
Who supports you
Studio Albonet has worked on public contracts since 1999, providing consultancy, training and services for companies and public bodies. It is ISO 9001 certified for training and consultancy on public procurement and publishes CodiceAppalti.it, the online daily on the Italian Public Contracts Code. The guides on this site come from our consultants’ daily work on the FVOE.
Free practical guides
Our step-by-step guides to the FVOE 2.0 platform, with screenshots of the portal and practical notes gathered in the field. The platform is in Italian: the guides keep the on-screen labels in Italian and translate them for you.
Need a document to share with your office? The brochure sums up our services and contacts and includes a fillable request form.
English brochure (PDF) Brochure in italiano (PDF)Rules and case law on the Virtual File
A selection from the CodiceAppalti.it database, Studio Albonet’s online daily on the Italian Public Contracts Code. The linked sources are in Italian.
“The economic operator’s virtual file operates within the National Public Contracts Database and allows verification of the absence of the grounds for exclusion referred to in Articles 94 and 95 and of the requirements referred to in Article 103 for operators carrying out public works, as well as of the data and documents relating to the requirements referred to in Article 100 that the economic operator enters.”
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Council of State, Section III, judgment no. 4484
The FVOE is a simplification tool: a clerical error in the file data does not lead to automatic exclusion and is clarified through the remedial clarification procedure (soccorso istruttorio).
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Regional Administrative Court of Apulia, Lecce, Section I, judgment no. 1585
The contracting authority may also exclude a bidder for irregularities that emerge outside the FVOE, for example from a social security compliance certificate (DURC) obtained in another procedure.
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Regional Administrative Court of Tuscany, Section III, judgment no. 1856
The file supports the requirement check but is not a constituent element of participation: missing documents can be remedied through the remedial clarification procedure.
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Ministry of Justice, circular
Criminal record certificates for procurement are requested through ANAC: from 1 July 2025 local offices stop issuing them.
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ANAC, notice
FVOE 2.0 adds pending tax liabilities, that is, tax debts not yet definitively established.
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ANAC, Resolution no. 262
Governs how the FVOE works and identifies the data to be entered in the file, effective from 1 January 2024.
Read the summary
Frequently asked questions
What is the Economic Operator's Virtual File (FVOE)?
It is the ANAC service provided for by Art. 24 of Legislative Decree 36/2023, the Italian Public Contracts Code, and it operates within the National Public Contracts Database (BDNCP). Contracting authorities use it to check that there are no grounds for exclusion and that requirements are met; economic operators use it to upload the documents they are responsible for providing.
Procedures started from 1 January 2024 use version FVOE 2.0.
Is the PassOE still needed?
No. The PassOE was discontinued with FVOE 2.0. Following the ANAC President's announcement of 16 April 2025, in award procedures the contracting authority accesses the file without explicit authorisation from the operator, who gives consent when submitting the tender.
Authorisation is still required for preliminary checks, carried out before the procedure starts.
How do you access the FVOE platform?
You need to register for ANAC services with a digital identity (SPID, CIE, eIDAS or CNS) and hold the right profile: “Amministratore OE” (OE administrator) for economic operators, Responsabile Unico del Progetto (RUP, single project manager) for contracting authorities.
ANAC username-and-password credentials are not enough for FVOE 2.0, except for foreign users with neither an Italian tax code nor eIDAS, who use ANAC credentials plus a one-time password (OTP).
Which documents does the economic operator have to upload?
Those proving special requirements that the system does not obtain directly from the certifying bodies, such as quality certifications or certificates of execution of works, plus any documents the contracting authority specifically asks for.
They are uploaded as a “Documento generico OE” (generic OE document), in files of up to 5 MB signed in PAdES format.
What happens if the FVOE does not work or contains an error?
If the system malfunctions, thirty days after the proposed award the contracting authority may award the contract on the basis of the bidder's self-declaration and complete the checks afterwards (Art. 99, paragraph 3-bis, Legislative Decree 36/2023).
According to the Council of State (Section III, judgment no. 4484 of 4 June 2026), a clerical error in the file data does not lead to automatic exclusion: it is clarified through the remedial clarification procedure (soccorso istruttorio).
Is fvoe.it the official ANAC website?
No. fvoe.it is an independent service by Studio Albonet and is not affiliated with ANAC. The official platform is on the anticorruzione.it portal, where ANAC also runs its own Contact Center for technical problems with the system.
We support you in day-to-day use and in the legal choices: what to upload, how to answer requests, how to handle checks and the remedial clarification procedure.
How much does support cost?
It depends on the service and on the number of tenders or procedures to follow. After a free, no-obligation first call we send you a written quote.