Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Friday, 10 July 2020

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response

Impact of Covid-19: Education – Return to School and School Transport (Resumed)

Mr. Hubert Loftus:

Essentially, what we are doing here is setting up a framework, which will have a number of suppliers on it. Our focus here is ensuring that they have the scale and capability to cater for the needs of the school system in 4,000 schools across the country. There has been a very strong interest in the tendering process. As it is a procurement process that is currently under way I am precluded from going into detail on it. What procurement must do is follow procurement procedures and work that through, but our aim in all of this is to make sure that the suppliers on the framework, of which there will be a number, have the capability and standing to actually deliver for the school system so that we can enable schools to reopen at the end of August as planned.

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