“Make or Buy” study for the waste management of Landkreis Garmisch-Partenkirchen
Checking self-fulfilment of the collection services from a legal and economic point of view
Restructuring processes and investment decisions are decisions that are often lengthy and involve appropriate analyses and considerations in advance. Landkreis Garmisch-Partenkirchen decided to deal with the advance analyses and considerations together with bifa Umweltinstitut. In addition to possible reorganisation of the waste management (currently an organisational unit of the municipality ("Regiebetrieb")) in a municipal enterprise, the implementation of individual operative tasks as in-house performance should also be examined as a "Make or Buy" consideration. The focus is on profitability and sustainability criteria.
The status quo of Landkreis Garmisch-Partenkirchen, i.e. the "Regiebetrieb" organisational form was compared with diverse organisational and legal forms for a "municipal enterprise". In particular, the "public-law institution ("Anstalt des öffentlichen Rechts") and "owner-operated municipal enterprise" ("Eigenbetrieb") legal forms are options here. In addition, the main advantages and disadvantages of performance in-house or outsourcing the waste management services were discussed.
A multi-criteria analysis was performed in a matrix structure to compare the possible organisational forms. The criteria were discussed and evaluated with the Landkreis. The aggregation of the individual evaluations to form an overall rating was carried out with the help of weighting factors, which were individually defined according to the concerns of Landkreis Garmisch-Partenkirchen. As a result, at the end of the evaluation, the favoured organisation form for the defined tasks is named.
The "Make or Buy" consideration is based on extensive data collection and evaluation. From the economic side, the status quo is compared with in-house performance of the collection service. The cost of purchasing waste collection vehicles and setting up and operating a depot were calculated and compared to the current costs of the collection services.