Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 3 April 2019
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed)
Mr. Damien McCallion:
The key date will be determined by the tender. That is the main factor. If we can get a provider through the tender process that can interact with us quickly, then we believe we can achieve this in a much shorter timeframe, perhaps by the end of this year or early next year. That is our key priority. The contract advertisement is going out now. I assure the committee that the procurement process is running. We will mitigate the risk concerning the environmental factors mentioned earlier by allowing a dialogue with the market. That is possible through a certain procurement process. The contract notice for HPV will be going out in the next couple of weeks and then we will be able to see if we can get a vendor to work with us on that.