The Ministry of defence is the adviser to affair already in the criticism. However, other departments have a need for large Consultants. This is evident from Figures of the Federal Ministry of Finance.
The Federal government has paid in the past two years, more than 1.4 billion Euro for private “consulting and support services”. The the news magazine “der Spiegel” reported under Berufug by the Federal Ministry of Finance responded to the request of the Green. Accordingly, in 2017 722 million euros had been paid around five times more than in the consultant report for the year shown. 2018 is still gone for at least 683 million euros.
The actual expenditure is likely to be even higher. Because Not all ministries have supplied Figures, it said in the report. The Ministry of defence is lacking in the collection, for example. This is currently anyway because of its questionable practice of awarding million-dollar consultant contracts in the public criticism. Also, a Committee of inquiry is concerned with the adviser affair in the army.
The costs for 2017 are also significantly on information, has given the Federal government until recently. At the beginning of February, the Ministry of Finance according to a survey by the Chancellor’s office and the 14 Federal ministries the Left had notified the group that by 2017, around 248 million euros had been spent on contracts with external consultants. One reason for the discrepancy is that the Greens have polled a wider range of services, for example, the framework contracts.
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A part of the resort was across more than 1.4 billion Euro in 2017 and 2018, according to the now publish information about more than 350 multi-annual framework contracts flowed, the individual ministries have completed. Their total volume amounts to around two billion euros. The Parliamentary state Secretary Bettina Hagedorn points out in its answer to the Green question, however, that the Figures were incomplete and “with each other, ultimately not comparable”. The ministries in the drive may have different standards of what needs to be recorded.
The cost of installation, according to the Ministry of the interior, consulting in need: Both in 2017 as well as 2018 were estimated to be more than 200 million euros for legal assistance, IT services and conceptual support, writes “Spiegel Online.”
the departments of health and transport have invested in the same period, three-digit million amounts. The CSU-led Ministry of transport pays according to the report, solely in connection with the Reform of the Federal highway regulation of 24 million euros for four more years of consultant contracts. 16.2 million of which went to the consulting firm Roland Berger for the control of the project.
The budgetary policy spokesman of the Green parliamentary group, Sven-Christian Kindler, calls for action: “The state may not deliver longer-in this way, companies consultants.” The government had to establish “urgent need for more in-house expertise in ministries and use.”
New allegations against German consulting company, 10.02.2019 Atlas |Germany |Berlin