The essay analyses the safeguarding minimum pay in public procurement contracts, with particular reference to municipal resolutions aimed at imposing a minimum wage in public tenders. The author identifies the legal basis of some of these resolutions in the combined provisions of article 9 of Directive (EU) 2022/2041 and article 11 of the Public Procurement Code (Legislative Decree No. 36/2023), and of others in article 113 of the Code.