Whatever the organisational model, leasing helps to remove the pressure on the local authority's investment budget by using external capital. In this way, the municipality acquires the possibility of making technology procurements on the basis of profitability, rather than investment budgets.
Leasing offers fixed, predictable costs and can include maintenance and ordinary upgrades. This ensures stable operation of the equipment, in those cases where this is strategically more important than ownership of it.
Ongoing analysis of profitability is simplified by having the fixed leasing costs tied directly to the municipality's production of services using the technology.
Operational leasing is a legally sanctioned financial instrument in all sections of the municipal economy.