Mr. Mark Griffin:

Assessing value for money in a single bidder situation is a difficult thing to do but it was an assessment of the solution looking at a range of factors that would be appropriate to consider in assessing what sorts of controls need to be put in place. It builds on everything else we have done, and I spoke about the dialogue solution, and considers what sort of things need to be taken into account to ensure value for money. Those are things like the Department being allowed to review, scrutinise and monitor the planned network build from final tender through to completion of detailed designs and monitoring; testing and verifying the actual network build and build costs on a transparent, open book basis; the payment of satisfactory achievement of clearly defined deployment milestones, which Mr. Mulligan mentioned-----