Written answers
Thursday, 20 December 2012
Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
Departmental Appointments
Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
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To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the process involved in the appointment of a person (details supplied) as legal advisor to the Government Reform Unit and Statute Law Revision Programme Director of his Department; the nature of the financial arrangement with this advisor including costs per hour or per day; if he will provide in tabular form, the amounts invoiced by this advisor in 2011 and to date in 2012, and the topic or issues covered in the advice provided for each invoice; if a procurement process took place, and if so, the criteria used; the weightings that were attached to these criteria; the number of tenders, proposals or quotations that were received; the number of tenders, proposals or quotations that were scored and the range of prices or costs quoted by tenderers. [57532/12]
Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour)
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Following the identification by officials of the requirement for professional legal expertise to support the delivery of the legislative programme being delivered by the Government Reform Unit in my Department, a person was appointed on 26 March 2012 following an open procurement advertised publicly on e-tenders to act as adviser and as Director of the Statute Law Revision Programme reporting to the Head of the Unit.
Three tenders were received in response to the RFT with hourly rates ranging from €111 to €350 and these were all evaluated by my Department on the basis of the criteria and weightings set out in the table following: -
Criteria | Weighting |
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Expertise, skills, qualifications and experience of the Tenderer | 25 |
Experience of the Tenderer in providing similar services to those set out in this RFT | 15 |
The ability of the Tenderer to demonstrate a clear understanding of the objectives of the Government Reform Unit, and how the Tenderer would expect to contribute to the delivery of the work of the Unit | 25 |
Completeness, Quality and Credibility of Response | 10 |
Costs and price | 25 |
The contractual arrangement is based on a cost of €111.00 per hour plus VAT for a maximum period 15 hours per week. The duration of the contract is 18 months. The amounts paid on invoices for 2012 are detailed in the table below along with the topics covered in the advice provided:-
Invoice Date | Amount Invoiced Incl. VAT € | Topics/Issues Covered |
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March/April | 10,239.75 | Oireachtas Inquiries Confidential Communications with members of the Dáil Regulation of Lobbying Civil Service Accountability Statute Law Revision Project Mahon Tribunal Recommendation / Ethics Legislation Protected Disclosures in the Public Interest Legislation Freedom of Information Legislation Ombudsman Bill 2008 |
April / May | 10,239.75 | Oireachtas Inquiries Confidential Communications with Members of the Dáil Regulation of Lobbying Civil Service Accountability Statute Law Revision Project Mahon Tribunal Recommendation / Ethics Legislation Protected Disclosures in the Public Interest Legislation Freedom of Information Legislation Ombudsman Bill 2008 |
June / July | 8,191.80 | Oireachtas Inquiries Confidential Communications with Members of the Dáil Regulation of Lobbying Civil Service Accountability Statute Law Revision Project Mahon Tribunal Recommendation / Ethics Legislation Protected Disclosures in the Public Interest Legislation Freedom of Information Legislation Ombudsman Bill 2008 |
July | 8,191.80 | Oireachtas Inquiries Confidential Communications with Members of the Dáil Regulation of Lobbying Civil Service Accountability Statute Law Revision Project Mahon Tribunal Recommendation / Ethics Legislation Protected Disclosures in the Public Interest Legislation Freedom of Information Legislation Ombudsman Bill 2008 |
August | 6,143.85 | Statute Law Revision Project Protected Disclosures in the Public Interest Legislation Freedom of Information Legislation |
September | 8,191.80 | Oireachtas Inquiries Confidential Communications with Members of the Dáil Statute Law Revision Project Ombudsman Bill 2008 |
October | 6,143.85 | Oireachtas Inquiries Regulation of Lobbying Statute Law Revision Project Freedom of Information Legislation Ombudsman Bill 2008 |
November | 8,191.80 | Oireachtas Inquiries Regulation of Lobbying Statute Law Revision Project Mahon Tribunal Recommendation / Ethics Legislation Protected Disclosures in the Public Interest Legislation Freedom of Information Legislation Ombudsman Bill 2008 |
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