Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 23 January 2019
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed)
Mr. John Pollock:
This again goes back to two-stage procurement. One of the things where we wanted certainty prior to the instruction for the phase B works was certainty on the cost of those works. With traditional procurement, the model is that one has four years of adversarial interaction and the costs creep. We have now got a fully designed building with detailed specifications. The price has been determined from that and we have cost certainty prior to the instruction to award those phase B works. The project now gets completed two years earlier than would have been the case had we taken a different procurement route.
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