Mr. Brian Allen:

It is common practice as well for the OPW, after the tender competition, to invite the unsuccessful contractors in and to go through the tendering process with them and explain to them, perhaps, why their tender did not succeed on that occasion. We do that regularly. We are required to do it under EU directives. There is interaction with the contractors. The most recent example that comes to mind is the schools building programme. At present, we have prequalified for eight new schools, and there are seven others coming down the track. At the prequalification stage we received 79 expressions of interest from contractors for those schools and a huge number of them had feedback sessions after the event to explain to them why they were not on the list of ten or 11 contractors who will be invited to tender when the time comes. That is ongoing.