Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 14 February 2019

Public Accounts Committee

2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Broadband Service Provision: Discussion
BT Ireland

9:00 am

Mr. Peter Evans:

No, we do not agree with it. It could have still achieved that by doing a tender and having the company that is the incumbent bidding for the tender and winning it. That would have still achieved the continuity that was needed but it would have been in the environment of a competitive process to keep it competitive in how it will run the contract. We deal with multinationals and public sector organisations and it is very rare that contracts get rolled over for the long term. In almost all cases, the company will look for a retendering process to get the best value and service out of the bidders. Even if that same company retains the business it still goes through a process.

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