Ms Mary Hayes:

It depends on different things. If you were contracting purely for a building, you would set out your standards for the building so then you are looking at cost and location. They are the kind of factors we take into account in regard to pure emergency accommodation. Sometimes there is an issue in regard to services where we may build up award criteria, where we are forced to look for value for money. We would build up our award higher scoring points to the quality - for example, where you are trying to discern between the quality of one tender and another. Therefore, your award criteria has to be specified from the outset when you are tendering. People would know that when you are tendering.