Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 7 March 2019

Public Accounts Committee

Oversight and Implementation of Capital Projects and the Role of Public Officials on State Boards: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the Office of Government Procurement

9:00 am

Mr. David O'Brien:

No, the key here is that the documents that were issued at the tender stage were issued on the basis of a fully designed basement. The basement works that are currently under way were designed and a standard contract was awarded for those works. There was an early engagement stage between the commencement of that work and what we call the guaranteed maximum price.