Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 23 May 2013

Public Accounts Committee

2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Office of Public Works

12:30 pm

Mr. Vincent Campbell:

That is correct, but the point is that what we are trying to do is also bring the market intelligence on board as well so that when we go out to the market, we are conscious of SMEs to try to facilitate the best approach to the market to facilitate good offerings back from the SME community and that is important as well in how we look at the markets. From that perspective, it is not one approach to each category. It is different approaches depending on how the market is operating. We would talk to the market in advance of going out and look at it from a lotting perspective or whether it should be a single framework or a multi-supplier framework. So there are different approaches to different categories and we try to give best approach to facilitate best return from the market.