Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 16 January 2013
368. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of contracts and value of contracts awarded to a company (details supplied) as part of Government procurement contracts. [57827/12]
View answerThe information sought by the Deputy is not recorded centrally in the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform for public contracts. Contracting authorities are currently only obliged to publish contract award notices on eTenders and the Official Journal of the EU (OJEU) for those contracts whose values exceed the EU thresholds. The current EU threshold for public works contracts is above €5 million; and for supplies and services above €130,000/€200,000 (Government Departments and Offices/Local and Regional Authorities and public bodies outside the Utilities sector). The majority of public contracts awarded fall below these thresholds and data on the companies to which they have been awarded is generally held only by the contracting authority concerned. In some cases contract award notices are published for contracts below these levels, although this is not obligatory.
The National Procurement Service who administers the eTenders website www.etenders.ie has advised my Department that following a search of the eTenders website that the company, which is the subject of the Deputy’s question, was awarded a place on one framework agreement; however a place on a framework does not generally guarantee the award of a contract. Details of any awards under the framework to the company would be held by the contracting authority concerned.
