Transport service of the German Bundestag
The transport service of the German Bundestag is a department of the Bundestag administration , which is responsible for the transport of the members of the German Bundestag within the city limits of Berlin and which is available to the members free of charge.
The head office of the transport service is in the Marie-Elisabeth-Lüders-Haus . There the inquiries are accepted and forwarded to free drivers. In addition to 30 of its own drivers (as of November 2012), the Bundestag administration commissioned BwFuhrparkService as of August 1, 2017 , to cope with the varying volume of journeys during the week without meetings. The service contracts were previously put out to tender.
On January 27, 2016, the Council of Elders decided to have the mandate trips carried out by way of public-public cooperation from August 1, 2017. In cases of public-public cooperation under the Act against Restraints of Competition (GWB), the federal government may commission federally owned companies without an award procedure. With the decision, the Bundestag administration was commissioned to conduct negotiations with the federally owned company BwFuhrparkService. The federal government holds 75.1% of the shares in BwFuhrparkService directly and 24.9% indirectly through Deutsche Bahn AG , in which it holds 100% of the shares.
Before that, the limousine service ROCVIN Dienst GmbH, based in Berlin , drove for the German Bundestag since 1999. The contract was terminated after the poor wages and working conditions of the drivers became public. The goal of improving wages and working conditions by having a private company of the Bundeswehr fulfill the contract has so far been largely missed. There has been little progress in wages. The setbacks clearly predominate in terms of working conditions. The driver's activity at BwFuhrparkService as the service manager of the German Bundestag's driving service cannot be described as attractive and family-friendly, in contrast to the demands that the Bundeswehr now places on itself. For economic reasons, most drivers are only employed as part-time workers or mini-jobbers, so that they are often dependent on a main or additional secondary job in order to make a living. The precarious working relationships are therefore partially subsidized by supplementary benefits under SGB II, because additional part-time jobs can only rarely be reconciled with the shift schedules at BwFuhrparkService, where even shared services are not uncommon.
Vehicle inventory
As of October 2017, BwFuhrparkService GmbH used 100 vehicles. Due to the fact that the parliament has been enlarged to 709 members since the 2017 federal election, it is necessary to increase the number of vehicles. The fleet is expanded to around 120 vehicles. Mostly, upper middle class cars with diesel engines are used, but also hybrid drives (almost a quarter) and five purely electrically powered cars.
Environmental sustainability
According to several resolutions of the Bundestag, only vehicles that correspond to the "latest state of environmental technology" may be used in the transport service. The introduction of a CO 2 upper limit for the vehicle fleet at the beginning of 2009 and the use of bicycles from the Call-a-Bike program did not find a sufficient majority. On the initiative of the Greens, the Bundestag's Council of Elders decided in April 2009 that the vehicle fleet should be converted to vehicles with a maximum CO 2 emission of 140 g CO 2 / km. In September 2010, most of the 37 own vehicles, like those of the service provider, did not comply with the limit value. In 2012 the limit was reduced to 120 g CO 2 / km.
On April 22, 2015, the Parliamentary Advisory Council for Sustainable Development published sustainability criteria that must be met in the future when the contract is put out to an outsourced transport service.
Web links
- Decision recommendation and report of the German Bundestag from April 28, 2009: Taking politicians as a role model for climate protection seriously - For a sustainable reduction in traffic-related CO 2 emissions by the German Bundestag (PDF; 111 kB).
Footnotes
- ^ Bundestag.de: Architecture of the Marie-Elisabeth-Lüders-House
- ↑ Focus on the Bundestag: The transport service of the German Bundestag is available to all MPs April 03/2000
- ↑ § 108 GWB
- ^ BwFuhrparkService GmbH
- ↑ Federal participation report. Federal Ministry of Finance, January 21, 2016, accessed on January 29, 2016 .
- ↑ Bundeswehr-Journal: BwFuhrparkService offers mini jobs for drivers of the Bundestag June 21, 2017
- ↑ Katrin Aue: Bundestag ignores its own ecological requirements , Spiegel Online, September 8, 2010
- ^ German Bundestag: " [1] ", Sustainability Advisory Board of the German Bundestag, resolution of April 22, 2015