Mr. Seamus McCarthy:

The Office of Government Procurement is focused more on strategic and cross-cutting procurements, including strategic direction and analysis of what the spend is, identification of major suppliers, common types of procurement and putting frameworks in place that are then available for public bodies to draw from. Each entity should have a procurement office or section depending on the scale of procurement. They would procure particularly specialised types of procurement that would not be standard. For example, a public service obligation service in the transport area would have a large element of autonomy within the Department in that regard and could also draw on expert assistance from the Office of Government Procurement.