Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 25 April 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

Garda Oversight and Accountability: Discussion

9:00 am

Mr. Liam Kidd:

To come back to the procurement issue, the procurement issue relates to one contract and one contract only. That is where we draw in skilled resources to help us to do work inhouse as opposed to outsourcing it. The rosters and duty management system, which is probably not a good example, is the most recent tender that was run within the organisation. Accenture won that as a competitive tender. It was not a surprise. It is competing. Other than that, we have a number of tenders where we draw in skilled resources but the big one that is in question in terms of the audit report is the Accenture contract that went back to 2009. That is the one that is now going back out to tender and that we got support to do. The other procurements are mostly either developed inhouse through existing tenders or pushed out to tender to be developed by an external supplier.