PUBLIC AUTHORITIES · FIRST STEP

INITIAL DISCUSSION

An initial meeting to clarify the public issue, the decision to be made, and the information already available. It is neither free consultancy nor the automatic start of an appointment: it establishes whether the conditions exist for a professional next step.

WHO IT IS FOR

Municipalities, Cantons, foundations, parishes, public bodies, and institutions that administer an asset, a territory, or a decision with collective effects.

WHAT TO PREPARE

Political or operational objective, location, availability of the asset, existing documents, known constraints, stakeholders, and the decision the institution must make.

WHAT WE VERIFY

Scope, completeness of sources, missing data, alternatives, responsibilities, specialist expertise, and approval steps to clarify.

WHAT HAPPENS NEXT

If the issue is relevant, Bau Lütz proposes a written scope for a pre-study, further investigation, or subsequent appointment with explicit activities, responsibilities, and outputs.

BEFORE YOU BEGIN

A DISCUSSION FOCUSED ON THE DECISION

The first meeting is most useful when the issue, sources, and person responsible for the decision can be identified.

OBJECTIVE

What must become possible.

SOURCES

Which data exist and which are missing.

RESPONSIBILITY

Who decides, authorises, and coordinates.

NEXT STEP

What must be formalised.

DATA AND FACTS

We collect documents, surveys, constraints, approvals, site conditions and sources. Every material fact must lead back to evidence, a check or an accountable person.

START A PRE-STUDY

ASSUMPTIONS AND ALTERNATIVES

Assumptions remain explicit. We compare scenarios by function, impact, phases, resources, indicative cost, maintenance, risk and missing data before selecting a direction.

SCENARIOS AND ALTERNATIVES

DECISIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

At each step we identify the decision, who owns it, the criteria, timing and consequences. Specialist work begins only under a defined appointment.

PUBLIC-SECTOR PROCESS

OUTPUTS AND TRACEABILITY

Initial frameworks, registers, maps, scenarios, minutes, matrices and dossiers may be produced as the mandate requires. Format and depth are agreed; no output is automatic.

OUTPUTS AND TRACEABILITY

VERIFICATION METHOD

FROM OBJECTIVE TO EVIDENCE

Every question receives an operational answer

01

Question: what needs to improve or become possible? Bau Lütz response: we define the expected result, the scope, and the conditions that cannot be ignored.

02

Question: how will we know whether the project is moving in the right direction? Bau Lütz response: we identify indicators, sources, and checks proportionate to the decision.

03

Question: which possibilities are realistic? Bau Lütz response: we compare scenarios while distinguishing data, assumptions, advantages, limits, and risks.

04

Question: who decides, and on what basis? Bau Lütz response: we make the responsible party, the criteria, and the operational consequences explicit.

05

Question: how is the process kept traceable? Bau Lütz response: we organize deliverables, sources, revisions, and decisions in an updatable dossier.

06

Question: who verifies and updates? Bau Lütz response: we assign activities and checks to the parties actually appointed.