PD - Public Sector Consultant

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PD - Public Sector Consultant
legal form Company with limited liability
founding 2008
Seat Berlin
management Stéphane Beemelmans and Claus Wechselmann , managing directors
sales 11.4 million euros
Branch Consulting company
Website www.pd-g.de

The PD - Consultants of the Public Hand GmbH (PD) emerged from the ÖPP Deutschland AG by changing the legal form . It is a 100% public consulting company for public clients and offers consulting services for public-private partnerships on issues of modern administration and investment projects.

The company also operates under the Germany partnership .

The company is based in Berlin. There are branches in Düsseldorf and Frankfurt am Main.

Partners are legal entities in the public sector or their institutions. The previous shareholders from the private sector left the company in 2016.

Corporate purpose

The company's goal is to enable better administration and more infrastructure projects. The company advises public clients on this. Public clients that are involved in the company can commission the company by way of in-house award without further tendering, Section 108 (4) GWB .

history

The PPP Germany AG was founded in November 2008 as a joint stock company under the auspices of the Federal Ministry of Finance and the then Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Development established under private participation.

The federal government decided to strengthen the “Partnership Germany” (PD) after setting up a high-level expert commission in 2014 to solve the problem of investment backlogs, but the proposals were hardly implemented.

criticism

The earlier conception of the ÖPP Deutschland AG was criticized in the media in 2012 because banks, consultants and construction groups held shares in the company and at the same time benefited from public-private partnerships. Ulrich Müller, chairman of the lobby control organization , called for the PPP Deutschland AG to be dissolved , as it was an invitation to lobbying at the expense of the citizens. The chairwoman of Transparency International Germany , Edda Müller , said that “clear client and contractor relationships are clearly preferable to public-private partnerships from the point of view of corruption prevention”.

According to criticism in the media in 2015, the PPP was supposed to serve private interests right from the start: “It was not independent officials who created the concept for the company, but lobbyists from the Initiative Finanzstandort Deutschland (IFD)”. Green member of the Bundestag Sven-Christian Kindler saw in the PPP a "driver for the sale of public infrastructure".

At the beginning of 2020, the media reported that the possibility of municipalities to receive advice from the PD on construction projects was hardly known there, according to officials, economists and municipal representatives. At the beginning of 2020, there was also a report on the special public procurement law structure of the PD, in which public clients can very easily commission the PD, but the PD then in turn awards contracts to private subcontractors.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. https://www.pd-g.de/ueber-uns/management-und-gremien/management/
  2. https://www.pd-g.de/pd-der-inhouse-berater-der-oefflichen-hand/corporate-governance/
  3. a b c Martin Greive, Donata Riedel: The state is sitting on more than 30 billion euros - and cannot spend the money. In: handelsblatt.com. January 7, 2020, accessed January 11, 2020 .
  4. ^ PD - Consultant of the Public Sector GmbH (Partnership Germany). bundesfinanzministerium.de, accessed on January 11, 2020 .
  5. https://www.pd-g.de/kontakt/
  6. ^ Company website. Retrieved December 22, 2016.
  7. Kai Schlieter: Statutory parasitism . taz.de from February 1, 2012, accessed on February 1, 2012.
  8. ^ A b Sven Becker: Trouble about privatization: The questionable advisers of the federal government. In: spiegel.de. April 6, 2015, accessed January 11, 2020 .
  9. https://www.capital.de/wirtschaft-politik/berateraffaere-wehrressort-verschweigt-bundestag-heikle-beraterauftraege/2