11 contracts have been defined for the assignment of companies and groupings of companies, for the most part Italian, for the supply of traditional benches and innovative seats, however single, after the call for tenders launched by the Commissioner for Emergency Domenico Arcuri, for the supply of a maximum of about 2.5 million desks - including new generation ones - in view of the start of the school year. Delivery is expected by 12 September. 14 companies participated in the tender, including Italian and foreign ones.
The new counters produced by the 11 companies will be delivered starting from the first days of September and until October the distribution of the counters in the various institutions will take place according to a national schedule and a timing that will take into account the actual school and health priorities of the various territories. thus ensuring the normal start of the school year. The disposal of the replaced benches will take place according to the ordinary procedures, in agreement with the Municipalities and Provinces.
In view of the start of the new school year, a preventive screening is foreseen through 2 million voluntary and free serological tests for teachers and non-teaching staff of all schools, the free distribution of 11 million surgical masks and at least 50,000 liters of gel sanitizer per day. This is what is learned from the Commissioner for the Emergency, Domenico Arcuri.