six months after the publication of a critical report, the State will beef up its internal advisory capacity

Six months after a critical report on its use of consulting firms, the State plans to beef up its internal consulting capacity in 2023. This is a “first sign”greeted Thursday, September 29 by one of the authors of the report, Senator Les Républicains Arnaud Bazin.

As part of the draft budget for 2023, 22 positions will be created next year within the Interministerial Directorate for Public Transformation (DITP), the Ministry of Public Service announced this week. These new positions are aimed in particular at “continue to increase the State’s internal advisory capacity”says the same source.

Ten of them will thus be devoted to strategy and organization advice, and five advisory posts have been created around design and behavioral sciences, adds the minister’s entourage. Currently, the DITP has “more than 80 experts and consultants”she says on her website.

Received Thursday morning by the Minister Stanislas Guerini, Arnaud Bazin, who in March had qualified the use by the State of consulting firms of “sprawling phenomenon”judged that the strengthening of the internal capacity of the State Council was “a first sign”. But fifteen posts “will not cover the needs of the State” in the matter, he immediately nuanced with AFP.

Arnaud Bazin and his colleague from the majority communist CRCE group Eliane Assassi discussed Thursday with the minister about the bill they tabled in the Senate to better regulate the use of consulting firms. The text must be examined at the Luxembourg Palace in mid-October. Although no date has been given for his examination in the National Assembly, Stanislas Guerini “reiterated its desire to see this bill passed within a reasonable time”explained Arnaud Bazin.