Mr. Seamus McCarthy:

That very concern has been raised in the past and there are policies on how best to design a procurement process so that small and medium and local enterprises are not forgotten. It probably does not make sense to have a national contract for something like contract cleaning, which has to be delivered at a local level. Regional or county bundles would be perfectly sensible or, at least, there is a need for a strategy around designing what is optimal and what will deliver best value, particularly at local level.