Ms Anne Stewart:

I do not know if that is the case, Chair. I would have to look at the details. By EU law, everything has to be competitively tendered. Under Circular 40/02, there is an ability for contracting authorities to issue every year a list of any contracts that they have not competitively tendered. That is sent in to the Comptroller and Auditor General. The OGP gets a copy of that so we see all non-competitively tendered contracts on an annual basis. In general, if something has not been competitively tendered does not necessarily mean it is non-compliant against the procurement rules because sometimes there are valid reasons something is not competitively tendered.