Mr. Patrick Neary:

There are two parts to that, namely, the technical and financial capacity of the bidder to deliver the project. The formal process has been the pre-qualification process. The last change was concluded in September 2018 just before the final tender was submitted. As part of the final tender there was an evaluation of the technical capacity and the plans the bidder would have to deliver the project over the 25 years.

An independent evaluation team was set up on the technical side to consider the deployment capabilities and the plan to deliver that in a credible and robust fashion, the technical solution, the partners underpinning that solution, the operational organisation that it will put in place, and how it will put that in place, the processes, procedures and tools that would govern the operation of the contract once it has been put in place. That evaluation concluded earlier this year. It has come through that independent evaluation.