FVOE — Fascicolo Virtuale dell'Operatore Economico (Italy)
The FVOE is the virtual file held at ANAC's national database through which a contracting authority verifies that you are not excluded and that you meet the requirements you have declared. It replaced AVCPass, and in its current version it also replaced the PassOE. Kept up to date, it removes most of the certificate-gathering that used to follow every award.
What the code says
Article 24(1) places the fascicolo virtuale dell'operatore economico at the national database and defines its contents: it allows verification of the absence of the exclusion grounds in articles 94 and 95, of the requirements under article 103 for executors of public works, and of the data and documents on the article 100 requirements — professional suitability, economic and financial standing, technical and professional capacity — which the operator itself inserts.
Article 24(2) is the provision that saves you time: the file is used for participation in procedures under the code, and the data and documents in it, within their respective periods of validity, are updated automatically through interoperability and are used in every procedure the operator takes part in.
Article 24(3) puts the burden on the certifying administrations: they must make the certifications and information under articles 94 and 95 available in real time to the database through PDND. The 2024 corrective decree added a sentence closing a common excuse — the rules governing an individual feeder database cannot be raised against the interoperability obligations. Breach is punished under article 23(8). ANAC guarantees access to buyers, to operators and to the SOA attestation bodies under article 100(4), each for the data within their competence, and may keep lists of operators already verified.
The implementing measure required by article 24(4) is ANAC delibera n. 262 of 20 June 2023, adopted jointly with the Ministry of Infrastructure and AGID, published in Gazzetta Ufficiale n. 151 of 30 June 2023, in force from 1 July 2023 and effective from 1 January 2024. Until 31 December 2023 the previous delibera n. 464/2022 applied.
Two versions, and why it matters
Under delibera n. 582/2023 there are two live applications. FVOE 1.0 remains usable for procedures launched before 31 December 2023. FVOE 2.0 is used for verifying requirements in procedures launched from 1 January 2024, through the Piattaforma Contratti Pubblici.
ANAC lists two structural changes in version 2. The PassOE has been dismissed — the old code you generated and put in the tender envelope — and replaced by a request-and-approval mechanism between buyer and operator. And the buyer may reach your file through a certified digital procurement platform rather than through ANAC's own interface.
Access
Access is by LoA3 digital identity only: second-level SPID, CIE, eIDAS or CNS. Foreign users without an Italian tax code who cannot use eIDAS may use two-factor authentication with ANAC credentials plus a one-time password. To operate as a supplier you need the "Amministratore OE" profile, requested through ANAC's user registration and profiling service and then activated.
The 2025 simplification, and the trap in it
Following the President's communication of 16 April 2025, explicit authorisation is no longer needed for a buyer to reach your file when you are participating in a procedure: the file is created immediately on the buyer's request. That removed a frequent cause of delay between award and contract.
The exception is worth reading carefully. ANAC has added functions for preliminary checks on operators identified before a procedure formally starts — respondents to a market survey, or a firm the buyer intends to appoint by direct award. The buyer communicates those identities with the avvio verifica requisiti (AVR) function, and then asks for access to each file. Here your explicit authorisation is still required, precisely because you have not yet taken part in a procedure: you receive a notification and authorise through the FVOE. If you sit on that notification, the buyer's preliminary check stalls, and so does your direct award. The buyer closes an abandoned check with the terminazione verifiche requisiti (TFR) function.
What to do about it
Set the file up before you need it, not when an award is pending. Get the digital identity and the Amministratore OE profile first; they are the slowest step for a foreign supplier.
Load and refresh the documents that are yours to supply. Article 24(1) draws the line clearly: the state-held certificates arrive by interoperability, the article 100 evidence — your references, your accounts, your professional registrations — you insert yourself. That is also the part that goes stale.
Watch two published lists on ANAC's FVOE page: the documents and information obtainable through the FVOE from each certifying body, with the time each takes, and the notices of partial or total unavailability of the service. The second one matters when a verification is the only thing standing between you and a signed contract.
Finally, monitor the notifications. Under the current rules the only moment your consent is needed is the preliminary-check stage — and that is exactly the stage that precedes a direct award.
Related terms
- BDNCP — Banca Dati Nazionale dei Contratti Pubblici (Italy)
- ANAC — Autorità Nazionale Anticorruzione (Italy)
- CIG — Codice Identificativo Gara (Italy)
- Affidamento diretto and the sotto-soglia regime (Italy)
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