Mr. Paul Quinn:

We produce an annual report on spend and tendering. It is on our website. It looks at the median level of contract opportunities that are published across the public sector. For most public contracts, the contract value is somewhere of the order of €100,000. That is the median value. Some are bigger while others are smaller. A figure of €100,000 is not huge and the turnover requirement is not more than two times the contract value so one is talking about a business that would have a turnover of somewhere of the order of €200,000 as the median contract size. It is not that these opportunities are not achievable or attainable by smaller bodies. Obviously, we break our own arrangements into lots. A total of 78% of all our frameworks, and we do big stuff, are broken down into smaller lots to enable businesses to compete. Approximately 67% of all suppliers on OGP frameworks - again, these are bigger arrangements - are SMEs.