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
Mr. Brian McHugh:
We would need the data of tender submissions, tender withdrawals and potentially any reasons given for them, for example. It is hard to do that without access to data. The legal right to access the data is in the hands of the contracting authority. The screen would span a number of years for similar types of tenders. There might be a large amount of data in a screen. It would be hard to do that without being able to tell a contracting authority that we require a particular set of tender submissions over a certain number of years. If we could do so, we could take that data in-house and analyse them.
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