One year after the revelations showing that the Ministry of Health had relied on seven consulting firms to manage the health crisis, the government states that the use of these firms will no longer be “automatic”.
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The state will make less use of consulting firms in 2022. It is the Minister of Transformation and the public office, Amelie de Montchalin, who announces it in a Interview with Obs , Wednesday, January 19th. “We decided to lower at least 15% of at least 15% on strategy and organizational advice for all departments, explains the minister, because we are convinced that in the field the state has the capacity to do with the resources and skills available to it. “
Announcing “a new doctrine on how the state must or may not rely on consulting firms,” it ensures that it will not use it anymore “automatically”. The Administration will first demonstrate that it did not have internal skills, it details. In addition, the Government will develop “this year much stricter rules for our relations with the consultants, in particular for the protection of the data, the prevention of conflicts of interest, the way in which we follow the execution and which are evaluated. works “.
This will probably satisfy the members. In a report published on Tuesday, January 18, Cendra Motin (the Republic in March, Isère) and Véronique Louwagie (Republicans, Orne) ask the state to better supervise the missions that it entrusts to private providers. “Special attention should be paid to maintaining the sovereignty and autonomy of the administration when it uses private firms,” they write, recognizing “their indisputable interest”.
“It’s expensive the boat”
Citing the European Federation of Consulting Associations in Organization, the held that the use of consulting firms by all public stakeholders (territorial communities included) represented 814 million euros in 2019, “an expense level Very moderate compared to other European countries “. The member Louwagie, however, did a sensation, beginning 2021, revealing that the Ministry of Health had relied on seven consulting firms to manage the health crisis, for 11.3 million euros of contracts.
Wednesday, January 19, in the Senate, the balance sheet on the year 2020 was clarified: 628 million euros were spent in Council by the state, a large share for IT. The minister was present, heard in the framework of a senatorial commission of investigation “on the growing influence of private consulting firms on public policies”, created at the request of the Communists. The day before, the hearing of Thomas London and Karim Tadjeddine, Associate Directors of McKinsey, did not leave indifferent commentators on social networks.
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