Mick Wallace (Wexford, Independent)
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94. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she is satisfied that all contracts a company (details supplied) holds with her Department and State agencies under her aegis have been tendered for; if her attention has been drawn to contracts awarded to the company that have not been tendered for; if her attention has been further drawn to contracts awarded to the company that have rolled over; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21667/18]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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My Department, and the agencies under its aegis, comply with the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform's guidelines for awarding public procurement contracts. Contracts are awarded based on the most economically advantageous tender (specifying, in addition to price, various other criteria including running costs, servicing costs, level of after sales service, and technical merit).

My Department does not have any contracts currently in place with Capita.

I am informed that the agencies under the aegis of my Department have a number of contracts in place with Capita, all of which were awarded following tendering processes and in compliance with public procurement guidelines.

- The Personal Injuries Assessment Board signed a contract in 2014 for business process support services with Southwestern Business Process Services Limited (subsequently acquired by Capita) for an initial period of three years, with the contract providing an option to extend by two periods of 12 months. These options are being exercised and that total value of the contract will be circa €9 million, excluding VAT.

- IDA Ireland signed a four year contract with Capita in 2017 for the provision, implementation and support of a financial management system. The total value of the contract is €154,000, excluding VAT, and it was not rolled over from previous years.

- The National Standards Authority of Ireland currently has three contracts in place with Capita for the provision of IT solutions. The total value of these contracts is €71,000 and two of these contracts were rolled over form previous years, on the basis that the software products being used can only be supported by Capita, as the developer of these products.