Analysis of procurements and the supply chain

The 2022 tenders for the procurement of goods, the provision of services and the execution of works, had a total economic value, as initially mentioned, of around € 1.9 billion¹¹⁸ (compared to over € 2 billion in 2021); in terms of the percentage ratio with the figures from the previous year, the following three items decreased, almost entirely uniformly: “goods” (-10%), “works” (-9%) and “services” (-8%) (see Table no. 39).

Chart no. 32 – Value of ordered goods, services and works and percentage on total (2022)

NOTE: Figures are rounded off to the nearest unit.

The distribution of the value of procurement for the business macro-areas – Network Operations (Energy Infrastructure), Generation, Commercial, Water Operations, Engineering Operations, Environment Operations (waste-to-energy and environmental services) and Corporate (Acea SpA) – shows, in particular, compared to 2021, a decrease in absolute values of procurements for the Engineering, Commercial and Water sectors, though the latter continues to account for the highest weighting of total procurements, and a significant increase for the Generation, Networks (in particular “works”) and Environment sectors (see Chart no. 33 and Table no. 39).

Chart no. 33 – Orders (goods, services, works) by business area (2021-2022)

NOTE: Figures are rounded off to the nearest unit. Networks (Energy Infrastructure) includes the company Areti, Generation includes the companies Acea Produzione, Ecogena and Acea Solar. Commercial includes Acea Energia and Acea Innovation. Water includes the companies: Acea Ato 2, Acea Ato 5, Gori, Gesesa, AdF. Engineering and Services includes Acea Elabori. Environment includes: Acea Ambiente, Aquaser, Acque Industriali and Deco. Present in the Corporate segment is only Acea SpA.

As mentioned, the procurement needs of the Group’s companies included in the scope in the year totalled 7,837 orders/contracts and involved 3,780 suppliers (around 32%119 more than the 2,869 suppliers in 2021). In terms of the geographic distribution of the suppliers, in 2022, most suppliers (52%) were in central Italy, of which 26% in Lazio, followed by northern Italy (30%), southern Italy and the islands (16%) and only 2% were foreign. The geographical distribution of the value of the procurements among the macro-regions, in terms of percentage weight on the total amounts (€ 1,036 million for goods and services and € 844 million for works), is more concentrated in central Italy, with 55% of the item “goods and services” and 73% of the item “works”, followed by northern Italy, which absorbs 32% of the item “goods and services” and 12% of the item “works” and by southern Italy and Islands (with 10% of the item “goods and services” and 15% of the item “works”). During the year, 40% of the value of “goods and services” and 60% of the value of “works” were concentrated in Lazio (Graphs 34 and 35, and Table no. 40).

Chart no. 34 – Geographical distribution of the amounts for goods and services in Italy and abroad (2022)

NOTE: figures are rounded off to the nearest unit.

Chart no. 35 – Geographical distribution of the amounts of works in Italy (2022)

NOTE: figures are rounded off to the nearest unit. In 2022, for the companies in the scope, the value of foreign procurement was zero.

Table no. 39 – Procurement data (2021-2022)

Table no. 40 – Procurement nationwide (2021-2022)

NB: tutti i valori in tabella sono arrotondati. La collocazione geografica “nord Italia” include Valle d'Aosta, Piemonte, Lombardia, Veneto, Trentino-Alto Adige, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Emilia-Romagna e Liguria; il “centro Italia” Toscana, Umbria, Marche, Lazio, Abruzzo, Molise; “sud Italia e isole” Campania, Basilicata, Puglia, Calabria, Sicilia e Sardegna. La collocazione geografica “estero” include fornitori che hanno prevalentemente sede europea.

118 The amount of purchases managed at the centralised level refers to tenders awarded during the year, without any distinction between investments and operating cost, annual and multi-annual contracts. Purchases of commodities, regularisation orders and intercompany orders are excluded. The figures for the companies that are not centrally managed, for a total of ! 343 million, do include all purchase types.
119 It should be noted, however, that Deco, which entered the scope of analysis in 2022, contributes to the total for the year with 599 suppliers; with the same scope, the difference compared to 2021 would have been 11%.