Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 6 December 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Preventing Bid Rigging in the Public Procurement Process: Discussion
Ms Anne Stewart:
I do not know if there is one particular body, because, as I said, from a member state perspective, in the context of public procurement, there is no single database for this information. It would be up to each country to hold its own information. Basically, if, after a contract was awarded, it was discovered that a contractor or an economic operator had signed to say there were no judgments against it, then we could cancel the contract. We can terminate a contract, but we do rely on this presumed legal compliance once tenderers sign off on documents.
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