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France-The elected officials denounce the methods of Bolloré on the Autolib '31/
05 / 2018 | 17:42
PARIS, May 31 (Reuters) - The Autolib 'Vélib' Métropole (SAVM) joint union responsible for monitoring the public service delegation entrusted to Bolloré for the management of self-service electric cars Autolib ', denounced Thursday. the methods of the industrialist, who claimed a large sum to pay the deficit.
According to Le Monde, Vincent Bolloré claims 40 million euros per year until 2023 in Paris and the municipalities concerned. The group did not wish to comment on this file.
"The elected representatives of the member communes of the Union remain fully determined to defend in the best interests of the communities, taxpayers and users of Autolib '," reads a statement issued by the union committee of the SAVM, which has a hundred of elected.
"Without taking into account the opinion of the Union, the Bolloré group has terminated by letter dated May 25 any conciliation procedure and conditions the continuation of the service to a financing of the communities whose amount rests on its only evaluation," continue the elected officials of Ile-de-France.
Autolib 'is a public car-sharing service available in some 100 municipalities of Ile-de-France whose commissioning started in 2011 and must be completed in 2023.
According to the SAVM, the initial business plan submitted by the managing firm, a subsidiary of Bolloré, provided that "this service operates without any public funds - apart from investment on the stations - and even generates a net profit of 'at least EUR 56 million at the end of the concession'.
Results in the early years proved to be below expectations and the sector has experienced a revolution with the emergence of VTCs and other car-sharing services.
"Faced with these points of concern raised by the Union, the managing company has however long hinted that it was going to restore its service by itself," said the elected in their statement.
The updated business plan provided by the manager in September 2016 has for the first time reported a net loss of profit at the end of the concession, up to 179.3 million euros at the expense of local authorities, an amount of "Aberrant" according to the union, which refused the plan.
Ernst & Young's late-2016 audit in the spring of 2017 "confirmed that part of the deficit the company wanted to impose on the communities was questionable," says SAVM.
The recommendations were to close the most deficient stations, update rates, experiment with advertising on cars and welcome new services in the subscription areas,
But SAVM says the company did not do what it was asked to do to improve the quality of service, including the maintenance and renewal of stations and cars, and launch a major commercial campaign to recruit new customers. subscribers.
"Following this audit, and in view of the persistent disagreements between the Union and the Bolloré group, the two parties agreed in the spring of 2017, the triggering of a conciliation procedure", says the SAVM .
The arbitrator appointed to find solutions reported in March 2018 and the Bolloré group to conciliation.