Cost trap state: ORH demands savings for real estate by EUR 130 million!

Cost trap state: ORH demands savings for real estate by EUR 130 million!

The management of state real estate in Bavaria causes high costs, which, according to the Bavarian Supreme Court (ORH), should be better controlled. In a current template for the state parliament, the ORH calls for effective cost controlling for state buildings to identify and use savings potential. This was discussed in an earlier annual report in 2024, in which the lack of cross-departmental cost controlling was criticized. The Ministry of Construction, on the other hand, expresses that the individual departments are responsible for the control of their costs themselves. This discrepancy between the statements of the ORH and the Ministry of Construction could lead to an inefficient use of funds, since the management and maintenance costs in a double budget for 2024/2025 are estimated with 1.3 billion euros each.

A savings potential of 130 million euros annually is determined if it is possible to reduce expenses by 10%, which could be possible with a functioning cost controlling. Green budget politician Claudia Köhler criticizes the lack of a comprehensive concept of the state government and emphasizes that, according to Prime Minister Markus Söder, little or nothing was implemented in June 2024. This underlines the need for effective management in the public sector.

cost control and transparency

A detailed view of the expenditure shows that state real estate costs over 1 billion euros annually for management and maintenance. The ORH also emphasizes that there is no functioning concept over 15 years after the project start to benchmarking and cost controlling. Only 27% of the bookings of a total of 2.2 million property -related transactions between 2019 and 2021 are available for evaluations, which indicates significant gaps in data quality.

The real estate Free State of Bavaria (Imby) should actually ensure the transparency of the administrative costs. Nevertheless, there were considerable difficulties in implementing object accounting, which has existed as a benchmarking project since 2006. Over 1.6 million bookings could not be transferred to the object accounting, which raises questions about the efficiency of the administration.

The role of key figures in controlling

Key figures play a crucial role in controlling in order to clearly present complex facts and enable well -founded decisions. These figures are of central importance in public administration to efficiently use resources and to evaluate the performance. The distinction between input and output data allows both the use of resources and the results of the service provision. However, despite the importance of key figures, the data is inadequate, which brings with it the risk of misinterpretations and a lack of use of the information obtained in the decision -making process.

The current challenges in Bavarian real estate management therefore require an urgent implementation of a functioning cost controlling and benchmarking. The ORH takes on a key role by asking the state government to actively tackle the savings potential in three -digit millions and to make the administrative costs more transparent. PNP reports of the comprehensive necessities during the orh itself recommends checking the object bookkeeping as a further step towards optimization. The support from modern key figure systems from the public administration, as described by Saxess