Fergus O'Dowd (Louth, Fine Gael)
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Question 102: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the amount paid for each of the past five years for IT services supplied to his Department, in tabular form; the nature of the service provided if there were tenders sought for each such contract; the successful company or person; the number of staff employed in her Department's IT sections; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19518/10]

Batt O'Keeffe (Cork North West, Fianna Fail)
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I understand that the Deputy is amenable to limiting his question to IT services suppliers in respect of whom expenditure in excess of €25,000 was made in any of the years in question. My Department's records indicate that, where the amount of expenditure exceeded €25,000 in respect of any one supplier and year, the amounts detailed in the table below were expended in respect of those services by that supplier in that year.

The number of staff currently employed in my Department's IT sections is 34.

My Department complies with public procurement guidelines which require that, save in exceptional circumstances, tenders should be sought for the provision of such services. Department of Finance Circular 40/02 sets out strict guidelines for dealing with all contracts over €25,000 where it is not possible to have a competitive process for the provision of such work, including reporting such expenditure to the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General.