Michael McCarthy (Cork South West, Labour)
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Both of the tender providers tendered for the contract previously and were awarded it. What changed in the meantime? The correspondence to one of the providers - I presume to both - stated the determination on the basis of financial projections included indicated that no suitable tender was received and consequently the tender process had been terminated.

Both have tendered for the contract before and have won it at various stages under the very same process. I am familiar with one of the operations. I am not a financial expert. The provider would argue there would not be any difficulty in terms of the robustness of the financial case included or the wider financial circumstances around the individual concerned.

Would it not be normal practice is such situations for the Department to contact the tenderers and facilitate a re-submission or give them an idea of where they have gone wrong? I understand that was the case in the past. Why was this not done in this case?