Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 25 January 2018
Public Accounts Committee
Business of Committee
9:00 am
Mr. Seamus McCarthy:
It is the only source of this kind of service. That would be the test that we would expect them to demonstrate to us. If one does not have competitive procurement on the basis that this is the sole supplier, one must be able to demonstrate that it is a sole supplier. It goes back to Dundalk Institute of Technology and the idea that "we have been working with somebody for 15 years and they are the only people who can provide this service to us". Now it has demonstrated that it can run a competition in that situation.
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