Scholarly Research Paper from the year 2011 in the subject Business
economics - Economic Policy, grade: -, The Open University (OU
Business School), course: B856 Managing Public Policy, language:
English, abstract: In late December 2006, the German Federal Armed
Forces (Bundeswehr) commissioned a consortium consisting of Siemens
Business Services (SBS) and IBM to modernize and manage its
non-military information and communications technology ("white IT")
under the HERKULES project.The HERKULES project is designed to
update the Armed Forces' data centres, software and applications,
PCs, telephones, and voice and data networks to modern standards.
This includes maintenance and support of desktop software, SAP
software as the large-scale back end, web-based applications
belonging to the intranet of the Bundeswehr, and communication
programs such as IBM's Lotus Notes. Siemens will be responsible for
operating and modernizing the decentralized systems at more than
1,500 locations in Germany, encompassing 140,000 PCs, 7,000
servers, 300,000 fixed-network telephones and 15,000 mobile phones.
In terms of objectives (Newman: 2001), the BWI IT was created
predominantly to bear the enormous financial upfront investment of
the project. The yearly parliamentary approved defence budgets were
neither flexible nor big enough to engage a project of this
dimension. The Social Science Institute of the Bundeswehr (SOWI)
has been charged with the evaluation of HERKULES. In my functional
capacity I have had the opportunity to contribute actively to the
performance evaluation to date. This paper outlines the scope and
schedule of HERKULES and identifies the major (dis-)advantages of
this PPP compared to unilateral public policy implementation.
Special focus is given to the question of risk sharing and the
project inherent partnership dynamics. Hereafter, potential room
for improvement and areas of concern are being analysed. The paper
concludes with a brief lessons learned chapter.
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