Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 16 January 2019
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
National Children’s Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board
Mr. Tom Costello:
To actually deliver what we had been remitted to do - to design, build and equip the hospital. I am going through the stages of employing the design team. Fundamental to it all was a clear process to carry out different stages, including procurement and employing the design team. The big one, about which we are talking a lot today, was that after a year of deliberation on procurement, we settled on the two-stage tendering process as being the most appropriate for the job. That was not because we had sat around and said, "This is it," but because it is acknowledged and accepted internationally as best practice in delivering large, complex projects.
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