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 am sure we can pull that data for the committee. Earlier I should have mentioned that we do monitor when a new competition is launched on the eTenders platform. Every day we do a run-through of what has been placed on the eTenders platform. If we see a tender launched there that is for something we believe could have been purchased off a central arrangement, then we go back to that authority and question in detail as to why they have particularly launched that. For example, if it is cleaning and we have a cleaning framework then we will ask why did they not use the central framework, what is different in terms of their requirements versus what we have in the framework, etc. We have that check and balance in place.

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