Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 30 January 2014
Public Accounts Committee
2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Land Swap Arrangement in the Provision of Affordable Houses
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
12:05 pm
Ms Clare McGrath:
We were doing that. Under the new contracts, consideration would always be given as to whether they should operate in lots giving maximum procurement application potential to SMEs but that would be determined on the basis of whether it was high volume low risk. One would have to determine how one would know the market and how one would want to break it up. The concerns of the SMEs are being factored in to the procurement policies of the Office of Government Procurement.