Tommy Broughan (Dublin Bay North, Independent)
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174. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 140 of 12 April 2017, if a contract to carry out the independent review of Youthreach has been appointed; if so, the details of the appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33511/17]

John Halligan (Waterford, Independent)
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Goal 4 of the Further Education and Training Strategy commits SOLAS to organise and conduct a schedule of evaluations of Further Education and Training programmes, including the Youthreach programme.

In April SOLAS arranged for the publication of the request for tender (RFT) for the Youthreach evaluation on the Office of Government Procurement (OGP) eTenders procurement website.  Tenders received did not meet with all of the specifications and as a result it was not possible to award a contract for the evaluation. 

The RFT for the contract was re-published on eTenders last month and the process is ongoing.