Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 28 January 2016

Public Accounts Committee

2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 13 - The Development of Eircode, the National Postcode System

10:00 am

Mr. Mark Griffin:

No it was awarded by way of competitive tender, the first one in 2005. There were six bidders for that contract. PA Consulting was the successful tenderer. In the second one in 2010, there were 11 bidders for that contract.