The Federal court of auditors criticized the plans of the Ministry of transport, the Truck toll operator to privatize Toll Collect again. According to a report to the budget Committee of the Bundestag, which is the MIRROR. The auditors doubt whether a preliminary economic feasibility study was suitable to justify the privatization of Toll Collect. The cost had been set “too low,” writes the court.
Behind Toll Collect a checkered history. The company was owned by a private consortium led by Daimler and Deutsche Telekom, which had collected the tolls on behalf of the Federal government. As the billion-dollar contract on December 31. August delivery, had to nationalize the Federal government is the operator of necessity. The Ministry of transport had failed previously, the new procurement process in a timely manner.
Now, Toll Collect from 1. March 2019 to be operated on again as a Public-Private-partnership (PPP). The call is open, deadline for submission of final offers to the 8. November ends. For the tender, a preliminary economic feasibility study was needed, which the Federal transport Ministry (BMVI) of a consulting company had to create.
The court of auditors criticises the calculations now, in several Places. The benefits Megabahis of privatisation have been reviewed including the topics of taxes, interest and personnel expenses to be positive. The appointed consultant company, the private operating efficiency benefits by ten percent would be incurred. These assumptions were “not substantiated, and therefore speculative,” says the auditor. In addition, they could not determine whether the BMVI have identified the risks of “appropriate”.
a critique of the Green
The Green party member of Parliament Sven-Christian Kindler and Stephan Kühn, the privatization plans and said: “The Federation may, the Truck tolls significantly raise cheaper in-house. By the transfer of Toll Collect to 1. September 2018 the Federal government over all the resources and the necessary Know-how to the Truck-toll collection,” write in a joint opinion. “Our public assets must not be sold out.”
The Federal court of auditors rüffelt procedures as of the end of the report, the scheduled arbitration. As the former operator of contract law is that disputes should be litigated before a private arbitration court. The Federation had argued for many years with the previous operator of the consortium before such a court of arbitration. In the secret negotiations was that it went also to the question of who was responsible for the delayed introduction.
In may, had agreed the government with Daimler and Telekom, the disputes through a comparison to settle. The Federal government secured approximately € 3.2 billion. The auditors shall remind, that the Federal government had demanded of 9.5 billion euros and the result was a “significant resignation” for him. They demand that the government should strive in the future in the ordinary courts. They stood for “impartiality, are unaffected by private interests, competently and negotiate a rule, open to the public.”
