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:
We would not have knowledge of it, unfortunately, until after the 40/02 report comes out, which is a year later. We have no regulatory governance over contracting authorities. If it were the case that they were doing something like that and were not bidding, it would be a huge concern, quite frankly. If it was a non-competitive tender, something like that would also be non-compliant, so there would be a huge issue there. However, there may be other things of which I would not be aware. It could be being pulled from a framework if it is not being set out.
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