In the case of tenders, “Austrian bonus” is planning for companies

FPö and ÖVP quickly agreed on the intended plug of the gigantic budget. A EU procedure can be deposited. The alleged coalition partners also agree on a different economic subject. Blue and Black want more products “made in Austria” for large orders, especially for public tenders. Taxpayers are awarded 65 billion euros per year annually – from the federal purchasing agency to the municipal office.

Quality plays too low
It is difficult to determine how much of it stays in Austria. If Austrian companies receive a surcharge, then often because they deliver cheap goods produced abroad, the negotiators say. The best bidding procedure is usually applied, “but also in these quality criteria with sometimes only five percent too little is taken into account.” No EU country assesses the quality criteria as low as Austria. However, it must be about domestic production, where this is possible, can be heard of the negotiations.

Stones from Portugal, furniture from Lithuania
The current situation leads to bizarre excesses, such as Portugal paving stones for the market square of Bad Goisern and office furniture from Lithuania and Turkey for the equipment in public administration. The FPö in particular is a thorn in the blue eye. In any case, Austrian economic patriotism was read in the Freedism election program “urgently needed”. Companies that are in Austrian possessions and generate products with a red-white-red must enjoy tax benefits and of course also get moving, even when tenders. A free negotiator about the “Kroon”: “With so much money you have to try to let the Austrian companies come to the train, because the figures here arrange and create the jobs.”

The Waidhofner Company Bene, who employs more than 1000 people here, is mentioned among the manufacturers of office furniture. Neudörfler, Hali or Blaha also rests offices with Austrian furniture. Reinhard Gleiss, chairman of the Council Council of Bene, says to the “Krone”: “Despite the highest quality, we hardly have any opportunities in the case of tenders in the public sector, because our wage costs are rightly greater than those of competitors from Turkey or Lithuania “even export from London to Dubai. But public authorities prefer to buy their office equipment elsewhere. “That is why politics is needed to concentrate on securing location and climate protection.”

EU prohibits discrimination against countries
It remains open how a purchase of more expensive furniture is compatible with the budget to save 15 percent in ministries in the event of factual expenses. Moreover, Blue-Black could come between Union Law for the project. Explicitly exclusive companies from other countries are prohibited and is contradicted to the principles of the EU internal market, the legal professor Walter Obwexer clarified. However, the public sector can pay more attention to short transport routes and regionality, as well as quality and sustainability when it comes to tenders, which means that domestic companies are moving more often despite higher prices. That would be a feasible way to end with more “made in Austria,” says the expert.

The paving stones of the distant Portugal or furniture from Turkey can be omitted if the weighting in tenders is adjusted. However, it also applies to regionality that this is understood for the borders: the supplier can also come from Bavaria for the town hall in Kufstein. With a Waldviertel customer, a producer of the Czech Brno also counts as regional. Obwexer also emphasizes that Austria benefits a lot from the internal market. However, this is not one -way -street, our companies also want to come to the train for orders abroad and are not discriminated against. Moreover, a disadvantage of foreign companies can also deter international investors.