Mr. Robert Watt:

At the time, the view of the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board, which was debated and then brought to the contracts committee, was that if we had done a lump-sum contract, it would have taken many more years to get the detailed design and that given the complexity of the project, it would have been very difficult to get people to bid for it by way of traditional lump-sum contract because the risks would have been too great. Clearly, it did not work out as expected-----