Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 31 May 2018

Public Accounts Committee

Garda Internal Audit Report on ICT Directorate Payments Process

9:00 am

Mr. Liam Kidd:

In terms of skilled resources, it would be a contract negotiated from the ICT perspective with the Chief State Solicitor's office. It is a standard Government contract. We have several contracts with Accenture. We have a skilled resources contract which is time and material. It delivers people in to fill roles in the organisation. There are some other projects which are fixed-price based on deliverables. For example, the rosters and duty management system was tendered recently. Several companies bid for it and Accenture won the contract. That is on a fixed-price deliverable basis. As certain milestones are reached in the project and are certified and signed off by the project board, then payments are made on the basis of those milestones.