(ATR) The list of consultants for the five cities is growing rapidly despite the IOC urging 2024 Olympic candidates to trim bidding costs.
Budapest 2024 has recruited its first consultant, PricewaterhouseCoopers Hungary Ltd, one month after the IOC deadline for 2024 bid submissions.Around the Rings is told that Budapest is working on bringing other consultants on board as the bid team gets organized but no further contracts have been signed.
Under IOC rules, "registration should take place after the consultant has been chosen by the NOC or the city to support their bid and prior to signature of any consulting contract".
In total, 30 consultants are now listed as working for the five bids on the on the IOC’s website; Hamburg, Los Angeles, Paris and Rome are the other bidders.
Rome 2024 has signed up the most consultants to date – 10 in total – despite having one of the lowest bid budgets. Italian NOC president Giovanni Malago said in August that the bid will spend only $11 million – a figure dwarfed by the estimated $63 million cost of the Paris bid.
Paris now boasts eight consultants and Hamburg seven.
Los Angeles has only four consultants registered to work for the bid and has appears not to have signed a contract with any new companies or individuals for the past four weeks.
Under IOC reforms, consultants and lobbyists for the 2024 bids must register on the Olympic committee’s website to show their commitment to comply with its code of ethics and rules of bidding conduct.
The idea is to make the role of consultants more transparent in Olympic bidding, while increasing the IOC’s vigilance of any rogue operators.
A consultant is considered to be "any individual or company who is not linked by an employment contract to the NOC, the city or the bidding committee, and who participates in or supports a candidature by providing consultancy or similar services in any way and at any time".
Only those already chosen by an NOC or city to support their bid can register. The IOC has vowed to punish consultants who breach its rules and regulations.
Reported by Mark Bisson
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