Procurement office criticizes lame production of industry

The head of the Bundeswehr’s procurement office criticized the armaments industry for the slow expansion of her capacities. “If the industry is not ready to get up its production, then we can work as quickly as we want – the device is still missing,” said Annette Lehnigk -emden of the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung” (FAS). “We will buy it in principle,” she assured.

However, it is due to the companies to prepare for the company: “Building a hall, buying the necessary parts and preparing steel,” said the head of the office, which is responsible for the central purchase of the material for the troop. The companies would have to do more to get away from the long production times.

Lehnigk-emden also criticized the sluggish processes in the companies. “The industry sometimes has stronger captivates than we do,” she told the newspaper. She has “the impression that there is more bureaucracy than with us”. The procurement office based in Koblenz has been managed by Lehnigk-Memds for two years. The recent loosening of the debt brake for defense spending is likely to increase the procurement volume of the authority.

The head of the procurement office also kept against widespread criticism: “The public debate is not quite fair,” she said. “As an office, we are practically the face of procurement externally, but no one perceives the other participants in the process who, for example, work on the product definition for five years.” Even if industry provides a poor product, the procurement office is to blame for public perception. “If you think we are the corporated bureaucratic procurement, then you have a wrong picture.”

In numerous branches of business, a suing is an exuberant bureaucracy. In many regulations, entrepreneurs and industry associations see an inhibition of their business and therefore put hopes in a federal government. Bureaucratic reduction is one of the discussion points in the coalition negotiations.