📋 Tender Overview
January 24, 2025
Our future commission #Digital Bavaria 5.0 is on the road to success: We have identified over 60 measures to make Bavarias municipalities fit for the digital future. From now on, together with the leading municipal associations, we are expanding Bavarias municipalities to fully digital offices across the board. Whether its building permits, vehicle registration or residence registration: from the initial application to the final decision, communication will be online, fast and with little bureaucracy! To achieve this goal, our municipalities must be supported by the central services of a unified municipal IT service provider. We will launch this by the end of 2025! In this way, we bundle tasks where it is appropriate and make IT operations for municipalities more economical, efficient and at the same time more data secure! All municipalities that are gradually connected to the IT service provider will be able to access its applications easily, announced Finance and Home Affairs Minister Albert Furacker about the new implementation phase that will start in the spring and will continue the work of the #Digital Bavaria 5.0 Future Commission until the end of 2025.
Furacker continued: In order for the end-to-end digitization of municipalities to succeed, we must make access as efficient as possible for our citizens. Identifying yourself securely online must become as easy and natural as paying on the Internet already is today! With the extensive identification options via our tax software ELSTER - made in Bavaria - the Free State is already contributing an important solution! In addition to ELSTER, we are now also igniting the Bavaria Turbo for the eID function of the identity card. The federal government has put a decisive brake on this by abolishing the free PIN reset by post, although a large number of people interested in online use often do not know the PIN required for this. We now want to make the eID function better known and reduce hurdles for resetting the necessary PIN for a citizen-friendly and more modern administration in Bavaria! The new option for identification via smartphone is made even more interesting by the Europe-wide standardized so-called EUDI Wallet, which is being introduced by the federal government in Germany.
Bavarias municipalities have made considerable and successful efforts to digitize within the framework of their self-administration. This has resulted in many individual solutions that could be too costly, insecure and labor-intensive in the long term to keep pace with technological progress. The #Digital Bavaria 5.0 Future Commission - consisting of representatives of the municipal umbrella associations and the Bavarian state government - was formed in spring 2024 to advance the digital transformation of Bavarian municipalities.
