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The National Family Allowance Fund awarded huge contracts in November to outside consultants for its computer maintenance, a lucrative sector that has escaped the restrictions imposed since the McKinsey controversy.
The controversy over the State’s excessive use of consultancy firms, these multinationals providing turnkey consultants and experts to administrations and whose influence has been described as “sprawling” by the Senate, does not prevent public authorities from continuing to recruit them in all directions. Whilea framework agreement between these private companies and the administration is being set up for all the so-called “transformation” contracts for public action, setting a (theoretical) ceiling of 2 million euros for each mission, Social Security has issued a call for tenders gigantic from which consulting companies specializing in IT have benefited to the full.
Endowed with its status as a public institution under the supervision of the State, the National Family Allowance Fund (Cnaf), the family branch of the Sécu, is autonomous and free to issue calls for tenders as it sees fit. Moreover, the framework agreement currently being negotiated does not apply to IT services, so it is almost open bar.
The Cnaf thus discreetly – only Radio France briefly mentioned the information – awarded nearly half a billion euros in contracts in November, 477 million euros exactly, supposed to allow it to maintain
