Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 16 January 2019
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
National Children’s Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board
Mr. John Pollock:
We went to tender in 2016. Once we received the tenders, BAM was the lowest contractor. The recommendation was to award the contract to BAM. It was awarded the phase A works, which are the below-ground works, but at that stage it did not have a commitment to the phase B works. Those phase A works would take 15 months to complete. Within the programme that we laid out in the tender documents it was specified that while the contractor was completing the phase A works on the ground there would be a period of approximately a year to conclude the second stage, which is the phase B works. That would then conclude. That timeline was set out in the contract. We did not pay any additional cost in relation to the programme and timelines.
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