Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 7 March 2019
Public Accounts Committee
Oversight and Implementation of Capital Projects and the Role of Public Officials on State Boards: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the Office of Government Procurement
9:00 am
Mr. David O'Brien:
No, the key here is that the documents that were issued at the tender stage were issued on the basis of a fully designed basement. The basement works that are currently under way were designed and a standard contract was awarded for those works. There was an early engagement stage between the commencement of that work and what we call the guaranteed maximum price.
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