Procurement Office of the Federal Ministry of the Interior
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Procurement Office of the Federal Ministry of the Interior |
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| State level | Federation |
| position | Not legal capacity federal institution in the business of BMI |
| Supervisory authority | Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building and Home Affairs |
| founding | May 18, 1951 |
| Headquarters | Bonn , North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Authority management | Ruth Brand |
| Servants | 283 (as of July 2020) |
| Budget volume | EUR 33.33 million (2019) |
| Web presence | www.bescha.bund.de |
The Procurement Office of the Federal Ministry of the Interior ( BeschA ) is responsible as a central purchasing authority for the procurement by public authorities and institutions under the jurisdiction of BMI. The BeschA is one of four central procurement offices for the conclusion of cross-departmental framework agreements for the purchase of standard products, which all federal authorities can access electronically.
The Procurement Office was originally established in 1951 as a procurement office for the Federal Border Police, in 1956 it became the procurement office of the Federal Ministry of the Interior and finally on March 10, 1995 it became today's procurement office as an independent federal authority subordinate to the BMI. With a procurement volume of around 5 billion euros per year (2019), the BeschA is the federal government's largest civilian purchaser. Ruth Brand has been the director since April 1, 2020 , who succeeded Birgit Settekorn (2013–2019). The procurement office has been based in the Nordstadt district of Bonn since the end of 2010 , when it moved from Beuel to a new rental property.
The core task is to advise customer authorities on questions of public purchasing, to bundle purchases and to process them centrally.
The procurements cover a wide variety of products and services that are required for the specialist tasks of the customer authorities. It starts with office equipment, continues through vehicles, weapons, information and communication technology to equipment for humanitarian missions by the technical relief organization . Communication platforms, patrol boats, vehicles and helicopters are procured especially for the Federal Police. At the same time, all vehicles of the federal police and the technical relief organization are approved by the procurement office .
The implementation of the award procedure as well as the ordering of articles from concluded framework agreements have been supported electronically since 2003. The procurement office is responsible for the lead project “Public Procurement Online” and has developed the e-procurement platform and the electronic ordering platform Kaufhaus des Bundes .
E-procurement
With the project “IT Consolidation of the Federal Government” run by the Federal Ministry of the Interior, electronic procurement is being consistently expanded in Germany. In this context, the procurement office is working on the provision of services that should enable the federal authorities to efficiently and completely digitize their purchasing processes.
The area of e-procurement consists of the following tools and platforms:
- Needs assessment tool (BET): The BET is to be used to identify and bundle cross-departmental demand for products and services from federal authorities and institutions. The aim of the pooling is to combine the purchasing volumes in order to achieve synergy effects.
- e-procurement: Federal e-procurement is a platform that brings together contracting authorities and providers. More than 900 registration offices from the federal, state and local authorities use e-procurement to process purchases worth billions of euros online.
- Kaufhaus des Bundes (KdB): As an electronic purchasing platform for federal authorities and institutions, the KdB is the central tool for accessing framework agreements. The public administration orders goods and services via the KdB directly online from suppliers or service providers.
- XVergabe: With this tool, bidders should be able to access all public procurement platforms of the federal, state and local governments with a single access. The procurement office of the BMI has already worked out the appropriate cross-platform standard together with the awarding authorities and software solution providers.
Central IT procurement office
The Central IT Procurement Office (ZIB) in the Federal Ministry of the Interior's procurement office is the central supplier for the digital modernization of the federal administration. It was located in the procurement office in 2017 as part of the “Federal IT Consolidation” project in order to process the tenders and contract management of IT framework agreements for the entire immediate federal administration.
ZIB is one of the largest IT registries in Germany. As a single point of contact , it supports its customers along the entire procurement process - from the notification of requirements to the award of the contract and the provision of services. It offers a service that includes all elements from customer and supplier management to contract and license management to receivables management.
A market analysis, customer and risk management, the use of a framework contract roadmap and tools such as the maturity model or standard strategies make the ZIB the central authority for strategic IT procurement.
- Competence center for sustainable procurement
Based on the results of the special meeting of the State Secretaries on October 21, 2011 and the meeting of the State Secretaries Committee for Sustainable Development on October 31, 2011, it was decided to set up a “Competence Center for Sustainable Procurement” (KNB). This competence center was organizationally assigned to the procurement office of the BMI. The task of the competence center and the web-based information platform is to advise and inform consumers and procurement agencies at the federal, state and local levels about sustainable products and services. The concept based on the decree on the delegation of tasks for the establishment of a "Competence Center for Sustainable Procurement" of the Federal Ministry of the Interior's procurement office as of January 31, 2012 includes the following tasks:
- Targeted information, training and education of the federal, state and local government agencies with regard to sustainable public procurement. This is done by setting up a telephone hotline and e-mail advice. In individual cases, advice and training should also be carried out on site.
- Creation of procurement guides, information brochures and newsletters on the topic of sustainable procurement.
- Establishment and support of an expert committee on the topic of sustainable procurement, whose task it is to support the competence center for sustainable procurement in the performance of its tasks.
- Development of new ideas, perspectives and approaches in connection with representatives from all areas (usually public procurement authorities, industry and non-governmental organizations (NGOs)) in order to permanently anchor sustainability in the actions of public clients at all levels.
- Creation and operation of the web-based information platform. This should link existing information platforms under a central entrance portal. The aim of the platform is still to offer all those involved in public procurement a communication and networking hub and to help establish a national network of experts. Exchange with business and non-governmental organizations is also desired.
Web links
- Procurement Office of the Federal Ministry of the Interior
- The fascination of procurement
- Competence center for sustainable procurement
- Information platform on the federal department store
- Federal procurement platform
- Federal procurement platform - information server
- Portal e-procurement
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bundeshaushalt.de: www.Bundeshaushalt.de. Retrieved August 30, 2019 .
- ↑ List of Abbreviations. (PDF; 49 kB) Abbreviations for the constitutional organs, the highest federal authorities and the highest federal courts. In: bund.de. Federal Office of Administration (BVA), accessed on March 14, 2017 .
- ↑ Cornelia Rogall-Grothe : 60th anniversary of the BMI Procurement Office ( Memento from December 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) , speech on the anniversary on May 10, 2011 in Bonn, in: Website of the Federal Ministry of the Interior / News (as of May 10 2011, accessed July 2, 2013).
- ↑ E-Procurement - Home. In: e-beschaffung.bund.de. Retrieved May 28, 2019 .
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