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 cannot speak for any particular agency. Regarding public procurement, there is a huge onus on the remedies directive. Anyone who has an interest in a particular tender process can rely heavily on the remedies directive to launch a challenge. As a result of that, the procurement process tends to be very heavily managed in terms of documentation, managing end to end what has happened throughout the timeline, even down to date stamping. It is quite heavily managed in that respect. I cannot speak for any specific agency, but if a challenge is launched, all that information needs to be made available.
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