The European Commission’s “management of the use of external consultants does not fully ensure that it maximises value for money”, the EU’s Court of Auditors criticised on Thursday 30 June.
The Commission increasingly uses external consultants to perform a range of advisory and support services.
The value of services of this type that it procured between 2017 and 2020 were worth €3.7 billion, according to the Court of Auditors’ report on the Commission’s management of...