Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 11 November 2020

Public Accounts Committee

2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 6 - Expenditure under a Maintenance Contract
2019 Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works

4:30 pm

Mr. John McMahon:

I will answer the last bit, on the competition in 2018, first if I may. We advertised a similar contract to the 2014 contract with some refinements. We increased the indicative thresholds on the volume of work that could be expected under the contract, and the individual pieces of work that might be done under the contract from €500,000 to €750,000 and €1 million. The intention of setting the thresholds at the levels they were was twofold. If they were too low, we were concerned we would attract possible contractors that would not have the organisational capacity to operate citywide, with 600 different buildings, 24-7 and every day of the year. If they were too high, we would limit the attractiveness of the contractor to only the biggest players in the market. There was an element-----

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