A-Infos (en) France, Alternative Libertaire #223 - Public-private partnerships Public procurement in private hands (fr) [machine translation]

Contractual instruments for implementation and management of infrastructure or public 
services, public-private partnerships. While this world is firmly in vogue are encouraged 
by the World Bank, in France it is much more discreet about it. ---- Public-private 
partnerships Public procurement in private hands ---- Contractual instruments for 
implementation and management of infrastructure or public services, public-private 
partnerships. While this world is firmly in vogue are encouraged by the World Bank, in 
France it is much more discreet about it. ---- The history of procurement in France is 
part of the public service delegation (PSD). This approach has existed since the 
mid-nineteenth century is to use a private contractor to build, manage, operate, service 
or public infrastructure.

Risk sharing is established by contract, knowing that the provider (private) shall be paid 
one way or another for its management. The difference between PPP and DSP is as thin as 
cigarette paper.

What is notable is that the formula of the PSD is very old in France, public procurement 
has long been shared between a limited number of players. For example, water management 
has three significant companies (Suez, Veolia, Saur) who share 80% of municipalities in 
the territory. Same in urban public transport where Veolia-Transdev, Keolis (SNCF) won the 
lion's share (75% of market), municipal utilities sharing the rest. The building sector is 
structured in the same way with four "majors" (Bouygues, Vinci, Eiffage, Spie Batignolle).

Transfer of public funds
Quite understandably, the equation ubiquitous actors seniority economic model + cheese = 
share, and collusion and agreements between these companies sprouts chained duck fat for a 
long time. One might therefore think that PPP gives little change. Especially an order of 
the State Council stipulates that the appeal to the PPP must first answer "the need to 
catch up particularly serious harm to the public interest and affect the functioning of 
the public service" .

And that's where the shoe pinches. Europe wants unified growth and competitiveness. Haro 
on the poor students whose share service is still important. This order has come. We 
believe the tailor-made for the present situation: emergency, the competitiveness of 
France collapses. We must accelerate the maneuver.

If the crisis is inevitable for many, it is clear that it is a structural opportunity for 
capitalism. Opportunity which has always strengthened its domination by precisely a 
dramatization of the emergency. For Holland who has never hidden to be a Liberal, whose 
mandate is obviously finalize the eviction of public and private dock in the French 
economy, PPPs are one of the privileged accelerators ultraliberal strategy.

Acceleration of the process
No wonder then the arrogance of Marisol Touraine, formerly Minister of Health, who 
scratched a stroke of the pen several years of fighting in the hospital in Mantes-la-Jolie 
(78)? Marisol Touraine who, without spending more than an hour there, and in defiance of a 
majority of users and elected representatives, assigns a private company [ 1 ] the fate of 
Cardiology, depleting even more care capacity of the basin health. No surprise: in the 
name of rationalization, the PPP was prepared long in local politics (Regional Health 
Agency of Yvelines) led by another Socialist (Claude Evin). The term socialist has no 
other purpose than to come complete the privatization process.

Cuervo (AL Northwest Suburbs)

[ 1 ] Fineve - company private clinics, which is both PdG elected Mantes-la-Jolie in 
charge of trade, Fineve manager and manager of a real estate company: chance would have it!
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