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Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Office of Public Works (23 May 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: But we cannot verify that they were realised, so it goes back to my initial point on how reliable these figures are as savings.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Office of Public Works (23 May 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: We hope.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Office of Public Works (23 May 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: Right, but we have to confirm that information if we are to declare it as a saving that was achieved through the NPS.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Office of Public Works (23 May 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: That is a particularly important point in terms of the validity of the figure we are discussing.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Office of Public Works (23 May 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: I will move on to the eTenders site, paragraph 14.22. The idea of eTenders is that instead of advertising in three newspapers for certain tenders one does it through a website, engaging SMEs online. How many SMEs are engaged?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Office of Public Works (23 May 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: Do we know what that is as a percentage of the total SMEs in the country?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Office of Public Works (23 May 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: And 89,000 of them are registered on eTenders?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Office of Public Works (23 May 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: It is not a huge percentage of SMEs.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Office of Public Works (23 May 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: They have to supply the documentation only once; is that it? Previously, they had to prepare the papers and get them through each time, and that was a hassle for businesses.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Office of Public Works (23 May 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: That is a great thing, but we are talking about how eTenders is saving the State money. In 2011, 6,120 contracts were advertised on the site and there was an estimated annual saving of €11.8 million due to the use of the site. That is calculated on the basis that each of those contracts would have been advertised in three newspapers. That is the saving we achieved. Would each of...

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Office of Public Works (23 May 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: Does the OPW take a standard cost of advertising in three newspapers, regardless of whether they are local or national, and apply that across the 6,000-plus tenders?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Office of Public Works (23 May 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: And the OPW hopes that averages out depending on whether it is a national or a local newspaper.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Office of Public Works (23 May 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: At what point does one stop calculating that as a saving?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Office of Public Works (23 May 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: Do we know when we will get an answer? Will savings be recorded in 2012 and 2013?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Office of Public Works (23 May 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: I take it that to calculate the saving one would calculate the number of new contracts advertised between 2010 and 2011 and not the total figure for contracts that are not being advertised in each year, because one is just counting the same money, or lack of money, again. That is not being advertised because one is counting the same money again or because of a lack of money.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Office of Public Works (23 May 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: Where are we with that work?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Office of Public Works (23 May 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: In regard to the timeline for that, will it be in the 2014 report of the Comptroller and Auditor General that the new methodologies are investigated in practice?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Office of Public Works (23 May 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: Is every public body using a framework agreement for procurement?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Office of Public Works (23 May 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: Is Ms McGrath anticipating a lack of compliance by certain public bodies in respect of the framework agreements?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Office of Public Works (23 May 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: Ms McGrath indicated that some public bodies will not use the framework agreements, for whatever reason, and that they would have to be obliged to use the agreement.